Correspondence with and material related to the British government, left-wing organisations, and media publications, 1919-1984
Correspondence with and material related to the British government, left-wing organisations, and media publications, 1919-1984
Collection: Communism and Popular Culture in the 20th Century Volumes Correspondence with and material related to the British government, left-wing organisations, and media publications, 1919-1984
While Montagu is not as famous as some of his contemporaries, these records do feature some well known figures, including: a membership list from the 1917 club listing J. Ramsay MacDonald and Margaret Bondfield MP as members; a survey completed by a Jerome K. Jerome on the subject of youth unemployment; and negotiations on the subject of Leon Trotsky visiting Britain. Montagu was strongly opposed to fascism and his papers from the European Workers' Anti-Fascist conference of 1933 are included in this volume. Montagu was also supportive of women's suffrage and access to contraception campaigns, the anti-apartheid movement, and in 1928, he corresponded with 'War Resisters International'.
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Correspondence relating to written publications abroad, 1938-1976
Publications and correspondence by Ivor Montagu pertaining to different written pieces for publications in newspapers, magazines and journals abroad. This includes the Democratic German Report, the Literary Gazette and Pravda of the...
Date:1938-1976Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-01
Correspondence with publishers, 1943-1972
Correspondence mainly with Lawrence and Wishart, the official publishing house of the Communist Party of Great Britain, but also with Macgibbon and Kee Ltd.
Date:1943-1972Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-02
Correspondence within the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1940-1984
Correspondence and other material carried out on an intra-party basis with various key figures, committees and branches. This includes correspondence with key Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) figures like...
Date:1940-1984Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-03
Material relating to local Labour Party branches and union branches, 1923-1949
Montagu’s correspondence and other material related to local Labour Party branches and trade unions. This includes Cambridge Trades Council and Labour Party Constitution pamphlet with related correspondence; Holborn Labour Party...
Date:1923-1949Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-04
Material relating to various miscellaneous political and social organisations, 1928-1980
Correspondence and other material relating to Montagu’s interest in various political and social organisations. This includes material relating to the Joint Committee for Soviet Aid; Juventud Combatiente (an organisation of...
Date:1928-1980Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-05
Collapse of the British Socialist Party, 1919
A letter from the leaders of the British Socialist Party (BSP) preceding the collapse of the party in 1919. This content of the letter relates to a controversial resolution at...
Date:1919-1919Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-06
Editorship of the magazine ‘Youth’, 1921
A small number of files related to Montagu’s editorship of the magazine Youth.
Date:1921-1921Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-07
Material relating to ‘The 1917 Club’, 1923-1928
Materials relating to the '1917 Club', a left-wing organisation with the following goal: ‘The object of the Club shall be to provide a meeting place for the interchange of opinion...
Date:1923-1928Contributor:Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Identifier:cp-ind-mont-04-08
