LB Club and the 30's

Scope and Content

Newspaper extracts (1936-1937) on foreign relations in the thirties, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, and Russia, as well as Betty Vernon's handwritten notes on the same. Notes and newspaper extracts on loans made from Britain to Germany on the 1930s. Newspaper extracts 1939 relating to Ellen Wilkinson and her campaigns and interests. Betty Vernon's notes on Stafford Cripps and Michael Foot and Dalton, as well as an extract from Dalton's unpublished diaries (14 Jun 1939) regarding Attlee's illness. Notes on the 1945 election and subsequent government. Notes on the LB Club, (1936-1948). Clippings from the 40th anniversary edition of the Tribune of an article by Ellen Wilkinson and of her involvement in the Left Book Club.

6 typed pages of draft with handwritten notes on the reverse labelled 'Popular Front and notes.'

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