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Papers of G.D.H. Cole in Nuffield College Library MSS.GDHC

A handlist of the

papers of G.D.H. Cole

1889 – 1959

in the Library of Nuffield College, Oxford

1994

Papers of G.D.H. Cole in Nuffield College Library 2 MSS.GDHC

B a c k t o t o p

Contents

Chronology 5

A Publications, with some unpublished

matter

7

A1 Articles, speeches, broadcasts 8

A2 Books, pamphlets 12

A3 Operetta, revues, songs, poems 17

B Personal, biographical 18

B1 Family correspondence 19

B2 Oxford University 1908–1912 19

B3 Personalia 20

B4 Interviews with G.D.H. Cole 20

B5 Photograph 20

C Correspondence 21

D Political activities 23

D1 Fabian Society and related bodies 24

D2 Labour Party 38

D3 Guild socialism and workers’ control 39

D4 Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda 44

D5 Popular front 46

D6 Social Security League 46

D7 International Society for Socialist Studies 47


B a c k t o t o p

E Education 49

E1 Lectures [for lectures given as Chichele Professor of

Social and Political Theory see E3]

50

E2 Workers’ education 51

E3 University of Oxford 52

E4 Easton Lodge 54

E5 Common Ground 55

E6 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization (UNESCO)

63

F Government committees 65

F1 Economic Advisory Council 66

F2 Man-Power Survey 66

F3 Man-Power Requirements Committee 71

F4 Public Schools Committee 72

F5 Other committees, government bodies 73

G Bibliographical and other papers 74

G1 Bibliographies of G.D.H. Cole’s works 75

G2 Bibliographies and biographies by G.D.H. Cole 75

G3 Nineteenth-century radical material collected by

G.D.H. Cole

76

G4 Notes [charts, tables of figures and notes unless

otherwise indicated]

78

G5 Other papers 80

Additional material 82

Fragile papers 83

Conspectus 84

Abbreviations 102


B a c k t o t o p

Preface

G.D.H. Cole was born on 25 September 1889 and died on

14 January 1959. He married Margaret Postgate in August

1918. Cole came to prominence in the years shortly before the

First World War. Along with S.G. Hobson and A.P. Orage, he

was a leading theorist of that form of industrial democracy

known as guild socialism and was subsequently prominent in the

short-lived guild socialism movement. For the next half century,

he was active as an influential academic, leading Fabian, and

guiding light of several left-wing groups. Above all, he was a

political thinker, whose work in the last decade of his life was

described by Richard Crossman as “still the most creative ... in

the Labour movement”.

Cole was made a Faculty Fellow of Nuffield College in 1939, a

Professorial Fellow of the College in 1944 and was elected to a

Research Fellowship in 1957. The College library holds not

only his papers but the papers of his wife, Dame Margaret Cole,

and of the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey which

he directed.

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B a c k t o t o p

Chronology

1889 September 25 George Douglas Howard Cole born in Cambridge, the son of George Cole and his

wife Jessie (née Knowles)

1902–1908 Attends St Paul’s School

1906 Accepts socialism as a ‘way of life’

1908 Wins exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford

1908 Joins the Oxford Fabian Society

1909 Starts Oxford reformer

1912 Gains First Class honours in Literae Humaniores

1912–1919 Prize Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford

1913 The world of labour is published

1913 Joins Fabian Research Department

1914 April Elected to the Executive of the Fabian Society

1914–1919 Tutorial class tutor, Oxford University

1915 Becomes unpaid research adviser to the Amalgamated Society of Engineers

1915 June Resigns from Fabian Society and its Executive

1916 Becomes Honorary Secretary of Fabian Research Department

1918 May Engaged to Margaret Isabel Postgate

1918 August 14 Marries Margaret Isabel Postgate

1919 Appointed Secretary for Research to the Labour Party

1921 February Daughter, Jane, born

1921 Becomes full-time tutorial class tutor at the University of London

1922 October Daughter, Anne, born

1923–1942 29 detective novels and 4 volumes of detective stories, written with Margaret Cole,

are published

1924 Resigns as Honorary Secretary of the Labour Research Department (formerly the

Fabian Research Department)

1924 The life of William Cobbett is published


B a c k t o t o p

1925–1944 University Reader in Economics and Fellow of University College, Oxford

1926 Writes The striker stricken, an operetta

1928 Rejoins the Fabian Society

1928 January Son, Humphrey, born

1930 Becomes member of the Economic Advisory Council

1930 Adopted as prospective Labour candidate for King’s Norton (Birmingham)

1930 A founder of the Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda

1931–1935 Secretary of the New Fabian Research Bureau

1932 An intelligent man’s guide through world chaos is published

1937–1939 Chairman of the New Fabian Research Bureau

1938 The common people, written with R.W. Postgate, is published

1939 – 1944 March Faculty Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

1939–1946 Chairman of the Fabian Society

1941 – 1944 January Director of the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey

1942 Jun – 1943 Sep Sub-Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford

1944–1957 Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford

1944–1957 Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow of All Souls College,

Oxford

1945 Stood, unsuccessfully, as candidate for one of the two Oxford University

parliamentary seats

1948–1950 Chairman of the Fabian Society

1952–1959 President of the Fabian Society

1953–1960 A history of socialist thought is published

1957 Elected to a Research Fellowship of Nuffield College, Oxford

1959 January 14 Dies in London


B a c k t o t o p

A

Publications, with some unpublished matter

G.D.H. Cole was a prolific writer, the author of over a

hundred books and thousands of articles, many of them

unsigned pieces for the New statesman. In this collection of

his papers, his articles are arranged thematically: materials

relating to books are arranged in chronological order,

beginning with the seminal guild socialist work The world of

labour (1913).

The singing of songs was a regular event whenever the young

Cole and his guild socialist colleagues met. Cole displayed a

facility for writing satirical verse, a talent which he employed

frequently after 1920; from that date a revue was produced for

every summer school attended by the Coles. The most

significant of the pieces, The striker stricken, was written in

the aftermath of the General Strike and, reputedly, in the space

of 48 hours. It was staged by the Oxford University Labour

Club in autumn 1926 and afterwards toured the Durham coal

fields and elsewhere.

A1 Articles, speeches, broadcasts 8

A2 Books, pamphlets 12

A3 Operetta, revues, songs, poems 17


B a c k t o t o p

A1 Articles, speeches, broadcasts

A1/1–6 Biographical material

A1/1/1–9 Emil Davies, Daniel Defoe, Friedrich Engels, Henry

Ford, J. Keir Hardie, J.A. Hobson, S.G. Hobson

1929 Sep 29 – 1950

A1/2/1–14 John Maynard Keynes, George Lansbury, Alfred

Mond, John Muir, A.R. Orage, Michael Sadler,

Clifford Sharp, George Bernard Shaw, Gilbert

Slater [with correspondence], Emily Townshend,

Sidney and Beatrice Webb

1931 Jan – 1946 Jul 26

A1/3/1–4 William Cobbett 1934 Feb 28, n.d.

A1/4/1–9 Karl Marx 1926 – 1951 Dec

A1/5/1–5 William Morris 1933 Oct – 1936

A1/6/1 Thomas Peacock 1939 Feb

A1/7–22 Articles on economics

A1/7/1–3 Coal and steel: miners and steelworkers 1930 c. – 1932 c.

A1/7/4–9 Coal and steel: the Richard Thomas firm, with press

cuttings. Letter from J.M. Keynes to Kingsley

Martin

1938 Jul 6–25

A1/8/1–15 Economic policy 1924 Feb – 1933

A1/9/1–16 Economic policy 1934 – 1947 Jun 9

A1/10/1–11 Economic policy n.d.

A1/11/1–6 Full employment 1943 – 1945, n.d.

A1/12/1–20 Money 1930 – 1934

A1/13/1–26 Money 1935 Apr 17 – 1945

A1/14/1–10 Nationalisation of the banks 1931 Oct 3 – 1945 Aug 15

A1/15/1–17 Planning 1930 Sep – 1948 c.

A1/16/1–7 Rationalisation 1928 Oct – 1953

A1/17/1–7 Social security 1943 Feb 19 – 1944 Oct

A1/18/1,2 State intervention n.d.

A1/19/1–10 Trade policy 1930 c. – 1958

A1/20/1–3 Transport 1920 Mar 5 – Dec 18


B a c k t o t o p

A1/21/1–13 Unemployment, including Clean up Britain 1930 Mar 17 – 1958 c.

A1/22/1–9 Wages and family allowances 1931 May 23 – 1939/40 c.

A1/23–24 Articles on education

A1/23/1–23 Education 1914 c. – 1955 c.

A1/24/1–16 Working–class education [photocopy of A1/24/16] 1919 c. – 1938 Sep 23, n.d.

A1/25–27 General articles, broadcasts

A1/25/1–5 Army broadcasts: Some political -’isms’, Cartels,

the gold standard, the American loan, Economics

1940 Oct 1 – 1946 Feb 27

A1/26/1–9 Everyman articles: British industry, agriculture, free

trade, unemployment, The New World and its

challenge [photocopy of A1/26/1]

1929 Oct 10 – 1930 Nov

A1/27/1–12 Modern Britain in the making [broadcasts on

eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain]

1928 Nov 8 – Dec 13

A1/28–31 Reviews

A1/28/1–40 Authors A – C [with guide to cross references] 1928 – 1946

A1/29/1–35 Authors D – H 1913 – 1946

A1/30/1–36 Authors J – M 1920 – 1945

A1/31/1–56 Authors N – W 1911 – 1955

A1/32–33 Articles on government

A1/32/1–15 Local government 1926 Oct – 1945 Feb

A1/33/1–4 Machinery of government 1944 Mar, n.d.

A1/34–67 Articles on politics

A1/34/1–22 Democracy and political theory 1926 c. – 1958 c.

A1/35/1–3 Democracy and political theory 1941 Jul 16 – 1946 Nov

A1/36/1–21 Freedom 1931 Jun 26 – 1939 Jun 10

A1/37/1–11 Freedom: broadcasts with Sir William Beveridge:

transcripts,

correspondence,

MS notes

1940 Jan 8 – Feb 5

1939 Dec 12 – 1940 Jan 4

n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

A1/38/1–7 Freedom 1938 c. – 1941 May 28

A1/39/1–11 Capitalism 1933 Aug 26 – 1936

A1/40/1–8 Capitalism 1936 Oct 26 – 1944 c.

A1/41/1–5 Class structure 1921 c. – 1941 Aug 16

A1/42/1,2 Co-operation 1951 Jun – 1956 Oct 10

A1/43/1–14 Contemporary politics [including articles written by

Cole as the prospective parliamentary candidate for

King’s Norton]

1928 c. – 1939 c.

A1/44/1–4 Contemporary politics: The great big giant and the

naughty little boy [allegorical story]

n.d.

A1/45/1–8 Fabian Society 1913 c. – 1953 Sep 28

A1/46/1–8 Guild socialism 1914 Jan 10 – [1916?] Apr 22

A1/47/1–72 Guild socialism: articles written for the Daily herald

by G.D.H. Cole and William Mellor

1914 Feb 24 – 1917 Jul 27

A1/48/1–5 Guild socialism 1919 c.

A1/49/1–8 Guild socialism:

lectures,

speeches, articles, synopsis for lecture series

1920 Mar 4 – Oct 27

1920 c.

A1/50/1–6 Guild socialism:

lectures,

article

1921 Jan 12 – Oct 26

1921 Mar 8

A1/51/1–7 Guild socialism 1921 May c. – Dec c.

A1/52/1–13 Guild socialism and industrial democracy 1922 Jan – 1958 c.

A1/53/1–17 Labour history,

with correspondence

1911 c. – 1949

1949 Apr 28 – May 2

A1/54/1–12 Labour Party 1916 c. – 1931 Nov 14

A1/55/1–11 Labour Party 1932 c. – 1937 c.

A1/56/1–4 Labour Party 1941 Jun – 1946 Apr 29

A1/57/1–6 Oxford by-election 1938 1938 Nov 7 – 26

A1/58/1–22 Popular Front 1936 May 9 – 1938 May 14

A1/59/1–12 Socialism and communism 1913 – 1934 Oct

A1/60/1–12 Socialism and communism 1935 Nov – 1944 Mar 4

A1/61/1–5 Socialism and communism 1944 Apr – 1950 Jul

A1/62/1–11 Socialism and communism 1955 Mar – 1958 c.


B a c k t o t o p

A1/63/1,2 Syndicalism 1914 c.

A1/64/1–9 Trades unionism 1913 Dec 30 c. – 1920 c.

A1/65/1–29 Trades unionism 1923 Apr – 1926 c.

A1/66/1–10 Trades unionism 1927 Jul 20 – 1936 Jul 11

A1/67/1–22 Trades unionism:

articles, broadcasts,

correspondence

1937 – 1945 c.

1942 Jan 24 – May 8

A1/68–72 Articles on war

A1/68/1–5 Causes 1934

A1/69/1–24 Economics 1934 – 1945 Jun 16

A1/70/1–8 Preparations 1936 c. – 1939 c.

A1/71/1–14 Postwar reconstruction 1939 c. – 1942 Sep 11

A1/72/1–15 Postwar reconstruction 1943 Jan 8 – 1945 Aug 1

A1/73–79 Other articles

A1/73/1–5 Leisure activities, detective fiction [including Flying

fame, a typescript essay on Cole’s experience of

being misquoted]

n.d.

A1/74/1–9 Unpublished articles: On taxing the rich, The

national savings, The state and the investor, articles

on British industry, rationalisation, By and large,

My thinking cap, Between two revolutions

n.d.

A1/75/1–15 Articles, speeches: the Soviet Union, India, China,

the Spanish civil war, Mussolini, Roosevelt, the

Hungarian uprising.

Correspondence on world politics

1930 c. – 1957 Feb

1937 Mar 8 – 14

A1/76/1–5 “Town life in the provinces” in A.S. Turberville

(ed.) Dr Johnson’s England:

MS draft, notes,

correspondence,

press cutting

1932 Jun c.

1931 Jun 25 – 1932 Feb 23

1934 Aug 30

A1/77/1–10 “Britain’s economic policies and world affairs” in

A. Forbach (ed.) Europe into the abyss:

draft,

correspondence

1938 c.

1937 Aug 26 – Oct 4

A1/78/1–7 Articles for Chambers’s encyclopaedia on transport,

the Internationals, economic planning, Industrial

Revolution, corn laws, man-power, labour history

1946 Nov – Dec


B a c k t o t o p

A1/79/1 Punishment: MS essay 1916 c.

A2 Books, pamphlets

A2/1 Prefaces to books by other authors

A2/1/1 A tour thro’ the southern parts of Great Britain by

Daniel Defoe

1928 Jul

A2/1/2 Friedrich Engels: a biography by Gustav Mayer 1936 Jan

A2/1/3 Europe today by Károly Polanyi 1937 Jul

A2/1/4 The condition of the British people 1911–1945 by

Mark Abrams

1945

A2/1/5 Six centuries of work and wages by

James E.Thorold Rogers

1947 Jan

A2/1/6 The shop stewards’ movement and workers’ control

1910–1922 by B. Pribicevic

1958 Nov

A2/1/7 The rise of the Staffordshire potteries by John

Thomas

n.d.

A2/2–58 Books by or edited by G.D.H. Cole

A2/2/1–8 The world of labour (1913):

MS notes,

publisher’s advertisement leaflet,

press cutting

1913 c.

1913

1913

The social contract and discourses by J.J. Rousseau

(1913):

A2/3/1 MS notes 1913 c.

A2/4/1–4 MS drafts 1913 c.

A2/5/1 Labour in wartime (1915):

MS notes

1915 c.

A2/6/1,2 Self-government in industry (1917):

MS notes,

press cutting

1917

1968 Jan 25

A2/7/1 Labour in the Commonwealth (1918):

synopsis

1918 c.

A2/8/1–16 The payment of wages (1918):

MS notes,

correspondence,

press cuttings

1918 c.

1915 Feb 5 – 1925 Jul 5

1916 Nov 24 – 1917 Jan 25


B a c k t o t o p

A2/9/1–6 An introduction to trade unionism (1918):

MS and typescript notes, statistics [including MS

notes by Margaret Cole on the Building Trades

Confederation]

1918 c.

A2/10/1–14 Chaos and order in industry (1920):

MS and typescript notes, drafts,

correspondence

1920 c.

1921 Feb 24 – Apr 23

A2/11/1–6 The future of local government (1921):


railway map of Great Britain

1921 c.

1921

A2/12/1 Labour defended by T. Hodgskin (1922):

MS draft of introduction

1922 Jan

A2/13/1–7 Trades unions and munitions (1923):

MS and typescript notes

1916 – 1922

A2/14/1 Workshop organization (1923):

MS and typescript notes

1923 c.

The life of William Cobbett (1924):

A2/15/1–14 MS and typescript notes 1922 c. – 1923 c.

A2/16/1–6 typescript drafts 1923 c.

A2/17/1–8 MS notes [by T.H. Green?] n.d.

A2/18/1–16 correspondence [including some general

correspondence on Cobbett]

1922 Apr 3 – 1949 May 4

A2/19/1–9 press cuttings on Cobbett.

Booksellers’ lists of Cobbett material

1941 Jan 8 – 1947 Jun 12

1921 Jun 13 – 1949

A2/20/1–9 Robert Owen (1925):


MS and typescript lists of collections of Owen

papers,

copies (1925) of letters to Owen,

correspondence on Owen

1925 c.

1925 c.

1830 Oct – Nov

1951 Sep 5

A2/21/1–10 A tour through the whole island of Great Britain

by Daniel Defoe (1927):

MS notes,

correspondence about Defoe

1927 c.

1927 Oct 18 – 1949 Feb 2

A2/22/1 Life and adventures of Peter Porcupine by William

Cobbett (1927):

MS notes

1927 c.

A2/23/1–4 Politics and literature (1929):

MS drafts

1929 c.

A2/24/1–5 Rural rides by William Cobbett (1930):

MS and typescript notes,

letter from Peter Davies about the first edition

1926 c. – 1930 c.

1926 May 29


B a c k t o t o p

A2/25/1–6 A short history of the British working-class

movement (1932):


correspondence

1932 – 1937

1928 Feb 27–28

An intelligent man’s guide through world chaos

(1932):

A2/26/1–7 MS and typescript drafts 1932 c.

A2/27/1–3 MS and typescript drafts 1932 c.

A2/28/1–6 MS and typescript drafts,

press cuttings

1932 c.

1933 Nov 16 – 1935 May 15

A2/29/1–10 (ed.) What everybody needs to know about money

(1933):

MS draft of chapter by G.D.H. Cole,

typescript abstract of contents,

correspondence

1933 c.

1933 c.

1932 Dec 21 – 1933 Oct 17

A2/30/1–13 A guide to modern politics (with M. Cole, 1934):

typescript synopses,


note from Margaret Cole to G.D.H. Cole

1933 c.

1933 c.

n.d.

A2/31/1–10 Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems,

lectures and essays by William Morris (1934):

MS notes, drafts,

correspondence,

press cutting

1933 c. – 1934 c.

1934 Feb 17 – 1946 Nov 24

1948 Jan 23

A2/32/1,2 The people’s front (1937):

MS and typescript synopses

n.d.

A2/33/1–5 (ed.) Letters from William Cobbett to Edward

Thornton 1797–1800 (1937):

MS notes,

correspondence

n.d.

1936 Jul 1–22

A2/34/1,2 Persons and periods (1938):

MS and typescript drafts of chapters on Daniel

Defoe and on William Cobbett

n.d.

A2/35/1–10 The common people (with R. Postgate, 1938):


typescript drafts

n.d.

n.d.

(ed.) British trades unionism today (1939):

A2/36/1–6 drafts of contributors’ articles, with

correspondence

1937 c.

A2/37/1–8 drafts of contributors’ articles 1937 c.




A2/41/1,2 notes by G.D.H. Cole,

press cutting

1937 c. – 1938 c.

1938 Feb 24


B a c k t o t o p

A2/42/1–59 correspondence A – C 1937 Sep 13 – 1939 Feb 1

A2/43/1–69 correspondence D – I 1937 Sep 16 – 1939 Feb 1

A2/44/1–63 correspondence J – R 1937 Sep 14 – 1939 Jan 31

A2/45/1–56 correspondence S – W,

list of contributors

1937 Sep 7 – 1939 Feb 9

n.d.

A2/46/1 British working class politics 1832–1914 (1941):

MS notes on Howell papers

1940 c.

A2/47/1–4 A century of co-operation (1944):

outlines of prospective book,

correspondence

1943 Sep c.

1943 Sep 23 – 25

(ed.) The opinions of William Cobbett (with

M. Cole, 1944):

A2/48/1–19 MS notes n.d.

A2/49/1–24 correspondence 1943 Jan 19 – 1944 Jan 15

A2/50/1–4 Money: its present and future (1944):

MS notes, drafts

1943 c.

A2/51/1–21 Local and regional government (1947):

correspondence,

circulars from the Local Government Boundary

Commission

1947 Jun 25 – Aug 12

1947 Apr – May

A2/52/1–3 A history of socialist thought, vol. 1: the

forerunners (1953):

typescript drafts

n.d.

Attempts at general union (1953):

A2/53/1,2 extracts from Poor man’s guardian 1831 – 1834

A2/54/1–11 extracts from New moral world and other

newspapers

1831 – 1836

A2/55/1–11 MS and typescript notes n.d.

A2/56/1–14 MS and typescript notes n.d.

A2/57/1–15 MS and typescript notes [including MS notes by

an unidentified collaborator]

n.d.

A2/58/1 A history of socialist thought, vol. 3: the Second

International (1956):

criticism by Hans Maakler of passages on Dutch

socialism

1955 c.

A2/59–64 Unpublished drafts, outlines

A2/59/1 The British labour movement:

MS outline

1917 c.

A2/60/1 A primer of syndicalism:

MS outline, drafts

1914 c.


B a c k t o t o p

A2/61/1–4 A short history of the Labour Party:


correspondence,

outline

1940 c.

1939 Jun 21 – 1940 Jun 7

1940 c.

A2/62/1 The nature of profits:

MS drafts

n.d.

A2/63/1 Unemployment:

MS outline, drafts

n.d.

A2/64/1–8 The state in relation to labour, The state and

industry, Concerning the history of state

intervention in industry, State intervention in 1914:

synopses, drafts, plans for chapters

1917

A2/65–69 Pamphlets

A2/65/1 The greater unionism (1913):

MS outline

1913

A2/66/1 Trade unionism in war-time (1915):

typescript outline

1915

A2/67/1–5 James Keir Hardie (1941):

typescript memorandum by Allan Durward: The

truth about James Kerr alias Keir Hardie and the

I.L.P.,

correspondence,

press cutting

n.d.

1941 Jan 19 – 1948 Dec 18

1956 Aug 18

A2/68/1–5 John Burns (1943):

notes,

correspondence on Victor Delahaye

1943 c.

1943 Feb 26 – Feb 27

A2/69/1–7 Richard Carlile (1943):

notes by Angus Rae,

notes, drafts,

typescript copies (1942) of letters written by Carlile,

correspondence

1942 Dec

1942

1820 Dec 29 – 1822 Jan 4

1942 Dec 28

A2/70 Fragments of books

A2/70/1 Fragment of a novel beginning “I was never able to

feel that I had any right to Parly Manor”:

MS draft

n.d.

A2/70/2 Part of a section on wage-rates:

MS draft

n.d.

A2/70/3 The political movement up to 1815:

typescript draft

n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

A3 Operetta, revues, songs, poems

A3/1 The striker stricken [operetta]:

bound copy

1926

A3/2/1,2 The striker stricken:

mimeographed copy, incomplete MS copy

1926

A3/3/1,2 The homeland of mystery [revue]:

MS notes [including songs by Maurice Reckitt]

1926

A3/3/3–5 Notes for revues on the Workers’ Educational

Association and trades unions [with contributions by

Margaret Cole]

n.d.

A3/3/6–18 Satirical songs n.d.

A3/4/1–30 Comic verses n.d.

A3/5/1–55 Satirical verses n.d.

A3/6/1–86 Poems,

correspondence on Cole’s poem Song for Christmas

1932

n.d.

1932 Nov

A3/7/1–60 Poems n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

B

Personal, biographical

According to Margaret Cole in the preface to her biography of

her husband, G.D.H. Cole considered himself to be ‘of no

interest whatsoever’ as an individual. It was this reasoning

which persuaded him to destroy virtually all his personal

correspondence. Fortunately letters written to him by his

father and his father-in-law, J.P. Postgate, survive and are in

this section of the collection. Letters written to Cole by his

wife can be found in the Margaret Cole papers.

Cole went up to Balliol College Oxford as an exhibitioner in

1908. From 1912 until 1919 he was a Prize Fellow at

Magdalen College. Papers from this period illustrate Cole’s

early tastes in literature and the development of his political

ideas. The pocket diaries used by Cole are a record of some

of his appointments and meetings in the period 1925–1955.

B1 Family correspondence 19

B2 Oxford University 1908–1912 19

B3 Personalia 20

B4 Interviews with G.D.H. Cole 20

B5 Photograph 20


B a c k t o t o p

B1 Family correspondence

B1/1/1–36 Letters from and relating to George Cole

[G.D.H. Cole’s father]

1927 Jan 14 – 1936 Sep 20

B1/2/1 Note from Margaret Cole 1941 c.

B1/3/1–5 Letters from J.P. Postgate [G.D.H. Cole’s father-in-

law]

1918 Jun 10 – Jul 19

B1/4/1 Letter to Richmond Postgate 1945 Jan 25

B2 Oxford University 1908–1912

B2/1–12 Lecture notes, essays [all MS drafts, mostly in notebooks]

B2/1–3 Lecture notes on Logic by J.A. Smith: 3 volumes 1911

B2/4/1 Lecture notes on Varieties of idealism 1911 c.

B2/5/1 Lecture notes on Kant by A.D. Lindsay 1911

B2/6/1 Lecture notes on The philosophical theory of the

state by A.D. Lindsay

1911 c.

B2/7/1 Notes on the Roman empire 1912 c.

B2/8/1 Essays on Roman history 1912

B2/9/1 Notes on Greek colonisation 1910 Oct – Dec

B2/10,11a,

11b

Lecture notes by R. Fanshawe on Kant by

T.H. Green: 3 volumes

1876-1877

B2/12/1 Essay on individualism 1911 c.

B2/13–18 Seminar papers

B2/13/1,2 William Morris,

The ideas of William Morris

1910 Nov

1911 Feb 13

B2/14/1 Jean François Millet 1911 Feb

B2/15/1 Art and socialism: a forgotten incident of the Paris

Commune and other matters

1911 c.

B2/16/1,2 Means and ends: a paper for socialists,

Socialism and education

1912 Apr

1912 Aug 12

B2/17/1,2 What philosophy is,

The new romantic movement

1912

1912


B a c k t o t o p

B2/18/1,2 Theism and freedom,

Time [on Thomas Peacock]

n.d.

n.d.

B2/19–21 Notes, sketches

B2/19/1–5 List and review of the works of Eden Phillpotts.

List of nineteenth-century prints.

Notes on various subjects

1909 Apr c.

1910 c.

1911 c.

B2/20/1–3 Notes, sketches:

Henry James - a great European,

English thought and the French revolution,

An outline of political theory

1912

n.d.

1912 c.

B2/21/1 Journal of current events [contains intermittent

notes on political and theoretical controversies]

1912 Apr 4 – 1913 Aug 29

B3 Personalia

B3/1/1–25 Pocket diaries [containing notes of Cole’s

engagements]

1925 – 1927, 1931 – 1955

B3/2/1–6 Invitation to Cole’s party.

Pharmacist’s invoice.

Inventory, valuation of valuables.

Home-made crossword.

Catalogues of books.

Hillman Motor Car Co. Ltd guarantee.

1922 Dec 20

1940 Nov 30

1941 Apr 10

n.d.

n.d.

1935 Dec 6

B3/3/1–7 Press cuttings.

Cartoons

1922 Aug 23 – 1948 Apr 16

1953 Mar 18, n.d.

B4 Interviews with G.D.H. Cole

B4/1/1–18 Interviews given by Cole. Profiles of Cole:

typescript drafts, press cuttings

1918 Jun 26 – 1946 Aug 22

B5 Photograph

B5/1/1 Photograph of Cole at his desk 1947 c.


B a c k t o t o p

C

Correspondence

This section does not contain any of the letters which Cole

wrote or received as Director of the Nuffield College Social

Reconstruction Survey. There are more than 300

correspondence files in section A2 of the Survey papers.


B a c k t o t o p

C Correspondence (in alphabetical order of correspondent)

C/1/1–89 Acland – Carsten 1940 Aug 14 – 1957 Mar 24

C/2/1–48 Cobbett – Durbin 1935 Dec 5 – 1957 Jun 22

C/3/1–69 Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences – Joyce 1929 Jun 29 – 1956 Dec 17

C/4/1–74 Keynes – Myrdal 1929 May 1 – 1957 Jun 17

C/5/1–80 Naish – Rogers 1926 Apr 14 – 1957 Jun 17

C/6/1–43 Salter – Suhl 1929 May 4 – 1957 May 20

C/7/1–39 Sultan – Workers’ International Review 1925(?) Mar 25 – 1957 Jul 9


B a c k t o t o p

D

Political activities

G.D.H. Cole was involved in a myriad of political activities

during his life. His connection with the Fabian Society began

at Oxford and continued until his death. Cole was

particularly adept at organising left-wing groups and research

bodies. Two such were the Society for Socialist Inquiry and

Propaganda, which came to an end in 1932, and the New

Fabian Research Bureau. The latter produced much valuable

research and its amalgamation with the Fabian Society

resulted in a revitalised Society in which Cole played a

leading role.

During the Second World War, Cole initiated the formation of

the Social Security League. This organisation, founded in the

aftermath of the Beveridge Report, had as its aim the creation

of a comprehensive welfare system. Late in his life, Cole

wrote two articles for the New statesman under the title “The

future of socialism”. His argument, that socialism was in

danger of losing its drive and rigour, resulted in the creation

of the short-lived International Society for Socialist Studies.

Cole was an active participant in the affairs of the Labour

Party. Shortly after the First World War, Arthur Henderson

installed him as secretary to the advisory committees of the

party. For a while he was the prospective parliamentary

candidate for King’s Norton (Birmingham) and in 1945 he

stood unsuccessfully for one of the parliamentary seats of

Oxford University. Before the Second World War, the issue

of a popular front against fascism divided the Labour Party

and Cole’s strong opinions on this subject show themselves in

the papers in the collection.

D1 Fabian Society and related bodies 24

D2 Labour Party 38


D4 Society for Socialist Inquiry and

Propaganda

44

D5 Popular front 46


D7 International Society for Socialist

Studies

47


B a c k t o t o p

Summary of D1 — the list starts on the next page

D1 Fabian Society and related bodies

D1/1–32 Fabian Society

D1/1 Executive Committee

D1/2–8 Socialist Propaganda Committee

D1/9 Other committees

D1/10 Dartmouth Street Trust

D1/11–27 Conferences of the Fabian Society

D1/28 Programmes for lectures and summer schools

D1/29–32 Book lists, other Fabian publications, social events

D1/33–40 Fabian Research Department

D1/33 Fabian Research Department

D1/34–39 Committee on the Control of Industry

D1/40 Other Fabian Research Department material

D1/41–49 Other Fabian Society material

D1/41 Fabian Nursery

D1/42–49 Other material

D1/50–65 New Fabian Research Bureau


D1/51 Reports, annual general meetings, accounts

D1/52–53 Amalgamation with the Fabian Society

D1/54–56 Economic Committee

D1/57–58 Socialisation Committee

D1/59–61 Research memoranda

D1/62 New Fabian Research Bureau conferences

D1/63–65 Other Fabian Research Bureau material

D1/66–69 Friday Group

D1/66 Friday Group

D1/67 Easton Lodge weekend, 16–17 April 1932

D1/68–69 Memoranda, correspondence


B a c k t o t o p

D1/1–32 Fabian Society


D1/1/1 Report, with report of the Special Committee 1906 Nov

D1/1/2–20 Circulars, memoranda 1896 Aug – 1944 Jul 7

D1/1/21–23 Committee papers 1944 Jun 1–30

D1/1/24–42 Ballot papers, biographies of candidates, election

results

1896 c. – 1956 Nov

D1/1/43,44 Draft agreement to set up Town and country review 1943 Apr

D1/2–8 Socialist Propaganda Committee [from 1945 called Local Societies and Socialist

Propaganda Committee]

D1/2/1 Minutes 1953 Jan 16

D1/2/2 Report to Executive Committee 1956 Jun

D1/2/3 Report on special meeting of local society members 1952 Nov 29

D1/2/4–7 Analyses of local societies, with lists of local

convenors and speakers

1942 – 1955

D1/2/8 About equality by W.T. Rodgers 1954 Sep

D1/2/9 Notes for speakers in connection with local Fabian

Societies [leaflet]

1946 c.

D1/3/1–22 Circulars, questionnaires 1941 Sep 2 – 1955

D1/4/1–10 Correspondence about the Socialist Propaganda

Committee.

Receipt for donation by G.D.H. Cole.

Press cuttings

1941 Oct 21 – 1951 Feb 6

1941 Dec 9

1941 Oct

D1/5/1–11 Directives [newsletter of the Fabian Society

Socialist Propaganda Committee] [incomplete set]

1943 Jan – 1944 Nov

D1/6/1–21 Directives [incomplete set] 1945 Mar – 1947 Dec

D1/7/1–45 Directives [incomplete set] 1948 Feb – 1959 Jan

D1/8/1–9 Press cuttings 1941 Oct 11 – Nov 1


D1/9/1 Joint Committee of the Independent Labour Party

and the Fabian Society: report

1913 Apr


B a c k t o t o p

D1/9/2 Manifesto prepared by a committee of the Fabian

Society

1942 May

D1/9/3 Economics Committee: Chairman’s suggestions for

five-year research plan

1943 c.

D1/9/4 Finance and General Purposes Committee:

memorandum on National Members’ Recruiting

Council

1953 Dec

D1/10 Dartmouth Street Trust

D1/10/1 Trust deed [mimeographed copy] 1942 Mar 25

D1/10/2–8 Accounts for the years 1947/48–1949/50, 1951/52,

1953/54–1955/56

1948 – 1956

D1/10/9–14 Leaflets, circulars, deed of covenant forms 1943 c.

D1/11–27 Conferences of the Fabian Society

D1/11–13 Conference on the Control of Industry

18–25 July 1914 [all seminar papers unless otherwise stated]

D1/11/1 Introductory circular 1914 Jul

D1/11/2 The position of employers in the state and

municipal service

1914 Jul

D1/11/3 How prices are fixed 1914 Jul

D1/11/4 What has been the motive for the increasing

nationalisation and municipalisation of industry?

1914 Jul

D1/12/1 The state in partnership with the capitalist 1914 Jul

D1/12/2 The unit of administration 1914 Jul

D1/12/3 The shortcomings and the limitations of government

enterprise

1914 Jul

D1/12/4 The constitution of governments as associations of

consumers

1914 Jul

D1/13/1 Can industry be organised by the national or

municipal government?: typescript [draft of

portions of part 3 of the proposed report]

1914 Jul

D1/13/2 Rough sketch of tentative conclusions of part three

[of the proposed report?]: typescript draft

1914 Jul


B a c k t o t o p

D1/14–26 Buscot Conferences on Problems Ahead

D1/14–16 Conference of 15–17 July 1949

D1/14/1 The machinery of government: notes for discussion

at the conference by G.D.H. Cole

1949 Jul

D1/14/2 The social services and redistributive taxation:

notes by Roy Jenkins

1949 Jul

D1/14/3 Active democracy: notes by R.J. Goodman 1949 Jul

D1/14/4 Memorandum by Ian Mikardo on subjects for

discussion

1949 Jul

D1/14/5–14 Preliminary correspondence 1949 Apr 27 – Jun 15

D1/15/1–6 Draft minutes of sessions 1–6 [with corrections] 1949 Jul 15–17

D1/16/1 A review of the Conference: synopsis of conclusions

with introduction by G.D.H. Cole

1949 Aug

D1/16/2–7 Minutes of sessions 1–6 1949 Jul 15–17

D1/17–18 Conference of 6–8 January 1950

D1/17/1 Programme 1949 Nov 22

D1/17/2–10 Preliminary correspondence 1949 Aug 24 – Nov 22

D1/18/1 Nationalisation, control of private industry and

investment: notes for discussion at the conference

by Ian Mikardo

1950 Jan

D1/18/2 Economic prospects for the next forty years or so:

notes by Donald Chapman

1950 Jan

D1/18/3 Outline for the education discussion: notes by

H.D. Hughes

1950 Jan

D1/18/4 Price policy: notes by C.A.R. Crosland 1950 Jan

D1/18/5 Investment in transition: notes by David Worswick 1950 Jan

D1/18/6 Man power, incentives and industrial democracy:

notes by Allan Flanders

1950 Jan

D1/19–20 Conference of 31 March – 2 April 1950

D1/19/1 The British socialist way of life: notes for discussion

at the conference by Michael Young

1950 Mar

D1/19/2 Notes on Michael Young’s paper on the British

socialist way of life by Margaret Cole

1950 May – Jun 6


B a c k t o t o p

D1/19/3 Notes on the British socialist way of life by

G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

D1/19/4 Report to Executive Committee of the Fabian

Society by G.D.H. Cole

1950 May 9

D1/19/5–21 Correspondence 1949 Nov 20 – 1950 Apr 25

D1/20/1 Notes by G.D.H. Cole 1950 Mar c.

D1/20/2–14 Summary of points, minutes of sessions 1–6 1950 Mar – Apr

D1/20/15 Programme of events 1950 Mar

D1/21–23 Conference of 30 June – 2 July 1950

D1/21/1–4 The state and private industry:

letter from Harold Wilson to Cole,

memorandum by Harold Wilson,

personal covering note by Harold Wilson,

letter from Cole to Harold Wilson

1950 Jun 27

n.d.

n.d.

1950 Jun 26

D1/21/5–10 Notes for conference by John Parker, Roy Jenkins,

G.D.H. Cole, C.A.R. Crosland

1950 Jun

D1/21/11–21 Correspondence 1950 Apr 14 – May 22

D1/22/1 Provisional agenda 1950 Jun

D1/22/2 Function of public enterprise:

article by C.A.R. Crosland

n.d.

D1/22/3 Labour and empire: article by Rita Hinden n.d.

D1/22/4,5 The next fifty years: memorandum by

R.H.S. Crossman

1950 Jun

D1/22/6 Suggestions for proposed conference on long-term

problems of socialism: draft note by G.D.H. Cole

1950 Jun 6

D1/23/1 Notes by G.D.H. Cole 1950 Jun

D1/23/2,3 Minutes of sessions 1–6: typescript drafts 1950 Jun 30 – Jul 2

D1/23/4 Minutes of sessions 1–6: mimeographed copies 1950 Jun 30 – Jul 2

D1/24–26 Conference of 14–15 October 1950

D1/24/1,2 Agendas 1950 Oct

D1/24/3–5 The nature of capitalist crisis: papers by

C.A.R. Crosland, A.J.P. Taylor, G.D.H. Cole

1950 Oct

D1/25/1,2 The use of leisure, Notes on Marxism: papers by

Margaret Cole

1950 Jul 22, Oct c.


B a c k t o t o p

D1/25/3 Summary paper on education by Margaret Cole 1950 Jul 17

D1/25/4 Colonial and undeveloped territories: paper by

Ritchie Calder

1950 Oct

D1/25/5 Notes on the long-term politico-economic outlook:

paper by G.D.H. Cole

1950 Oct

D1/26/1,2 The economic prospect: paper by John Strachey 1950 Oct

D1/26/3,4 The next fifty years - draft 2: paper by

R.H.S. Crossman

1950 Oct

D1/26/5,6 Correspondence 1950 Oct 3, 11

D1/27 Other Fabian Society conferences

D1/27/1 The state and the future of industry: report of

conference

1944 Sep 30 – Oct 1

D1/27/2 Report of conference on housing 1946 Jan 19–20

D1/27/3 Can local government survive?: agenda for

conference

n.d.

D1/28 Programmes for lectures and summer

schools

D1/28/1–24 Leaflets advertising Fabian lectures 1896 – 1958

D1/28/25–43 Leaflets and booking forms for summer schools 1904 Jun – 1951 Jul

D1/29–32 Book lists, other Fabian publications,

social events

D1/29/1–7 Invitations to Fabian dinners 1940 Feb – 1941

D1/29/8–13 Fabian booklists 1950 c.

D1/29/14,15 Invitation to launch of Socialism and

nationalisation by Hugh Gaitskell, with list of

guests

1956 Jul

D1/30/1–7 What to read 1942 c.

D1/30/8–28 Order forms, lists of publications 1908 – 1950 c.

D1/30/29 Notes by G.D.H. Cole on Fabian publications n.d.

D1/30/30 List of tracts held at Fabian offices 1942 Sep 25

D1/30/31–33 Correspondence 1939 Feb 14 – 1949 May 22


B a c k t o t o p

D1/31 New Fabian essays

D1/31/1 Minutes of meeting 1931 Feb 14

D1/31/2 Draft outline by G.D.H. Cole 1944 c.

D1/31/3–7 Comments on above by Austen Albu, W.A. Robson,

Leonard Woolf, Evan Durbin, Margaret Cole

1944 Oct – Nov

D1/31/8 Transcript of discussion between G.D.H. Cole and

Margaret Cole

1944

D1/31/9 Review of New Fabian essays 1953 Aug

D1/32 Research projects

D1/32/1,2 Attitudes among coalminers: circular, questionnaire

1948 c.

D1/32/3,4 What do you think?: questionnaire, report 1948

D1/32/5–9 Reports, circulars on research projects 1941 May – 1947 Jun

D1/33–40 Fabian Research Department

D1/33/1 Circular about foundation 1913 Nov 1

D1/33/2 Trade union survey 1917 Sep

D1/33/3–9 Monthly circulars 1917 Jul – Nov, 1918 Jun

D1/34–39 Committee on the Control of Industry

D1/34/1,2 Circular, application form 1912 Oct 21, n.d.

D1/34/3,4 Memoranda by C. Morgan Webb and by Beatrice

Webb

1912 c.

D1/34/5 Industrial co-partnership and profit sharing:

memorandum

1913 c.

D1/35 Sub-committee no.1 (Associations of Wage

Earners)

D1/35/1 Hints to investigators 1912 c.

D1/35/2 Syndicalism: report by G.D.H. Cole 1913

D1/35/3 Local autonomy versus centralisation: report on the

South Wales Miners’ Federation by N. Ablett

1913


B a c k t o t o p

D1/35/4 Industrial unionism or amalgamation versus

federation as the future form of T.U. organisation:

report by H.N. Gillespie and G.D.H. Cole

1913

D1/35/5 Demarcation: report by H.N. Gillespie and

G.D.H. Cole

1913

D1/36 Sub-committee no.2 (Associations of Producers)


D1/36/2 Memorandum by Barbara Drake 1913

D1/37 Sub-committee no.3 (Associations of Consumers)


D1/37/2 The C.W.S.: report by Percy Redfern 1913

D1/37/3 The German co-operative movement: report by

C.F. Urmson

1913

D1/38 Sub-committee no.4 (Public Service)


D1/38/2 The evils of bureaucracy: report by Mabel Atkinson

1913

D1/39 State control of industry and commerce during

and after the war

D1/39/1 Memorandum by G.D.H. Cole 1918 Mar

D1/39/2–7 Preliminary memoranda on shipping, metal, wool,

coal industries

1918 Mar c.

D1/39/8–12 Notes, press cuttings 1918 Mar c.

D1/39/13 Letter from Percy Ashley to Sidney Webb 1918 Mar 18

D1/40 Other Fabian Research Department

material

D1/40/1 Committee of Enquiry on Insurance: memorandum

by Sidney Webb

1913

D1/40/2 Leaflet for summer school 1922 Aug

D1/40/3 Labour in local affairs: pamphlet 1945

D1/40/4 Letter from George Bernard Shaw to G.D.H. Cole

regarding the Labour Research Department

[formerly the Fabian Research Department]

1921 Oct 17


B a c k t o t o p


D1/41 Fabian Nursery

D1/41/1 The greater unionism: notes by G.D.H. Cole for

seminar, with notes of discussion

1914 May 27

D1/42–49 Other material

D1/42/1–93 Fabian correspondence 1931 Feb 6 – 1942 Nov 27

D1/43/1–72 Fabian correspondence 1943 Jan 26 – 1957 Feb 18

D1/44/1–27 Press cuttings 1939 May 13 – 1956 Jul 14

D1/45 Photographs

D1/45/1 Broadstairs Fabian summer school group 1950

D1/45/2 Display cabinet [probably in the London offices of

the Fabian Society]

1950 c.

D1/46 Local Fabian groups

D1/46/1–3 Victorian Fabian Society (Australia):

agenda for Annual General Meeting,

draft constitution,

Newsletter

1952

n.d.

1952

D1/46/4 Watford Fabian Society: rules 1943 Jan

D1/46/5–8 Oxford Fabian Society: rules, posters, circulars

about meetings

1943 May – Aug

D1/46/9–15 Liverpool and Manchester Fabian Societies: tracts 1891 Feb 10 – 1912 May


D1/47/1 Blackburn’s greatest need: Fabian manifesto 1913 c.

D1/47/2 Circular about the New statesman 1913 Jul 28

D1/47/3,4 Fabian news 1915 May, 1941 Jun

D1/47/5 Forward to socialism: synopsis by G.D.H. Cole 1942 c.

D1/48/1 Tabulation by G.D.H. Cole of information on the

Fabian executive and Fabian publications

1949

D1/48/2 Letter from Andrew Filson to G.D.H. Cole 1949 Jun 1

D1/49/1 Fabian Colonial Bureau notes on Fourah Bay

College

1947 Mar 13


B a c k t o t o p

D1/49/2–6 Beatrice Webb Appeal: press cuttings, leaflets,

covenant form

1944 Mar 10 – 1957

D1/49/7 New Year greeting card 1949

D1/49/8–17 Membership leaflets, forms 1946 – 1955 Nov 1

D1/50–65 New Fabian Research Bureau


D1/50/1–4 Rules 1931 Feb c. – 1934 May 12

D1/50/5–7 Lists of council and executive members 1931 – 1938

D1/50/8–12 Minutes 1931 Feb 1 – Jul 6,

1932 Oct 17

D1/50/13–17 Circulars 1932 Oct 11 – 1938 Apr 22

D1/51 Reports, annual general meetings,

accounts

D1/51/1 Report of first annual general meeting 1932 May 29

D1/51/2–6 Annual reports 1932 Mar 31, 1935 Mar 31 –

1938 Sep 30

D1/51/7 Monthly report 1932 Aug 30

D1/51/8,9 Accounts 1932 Mar 31, 1938 Jun 30

D1/52–53 Amalgamation with the Fabian Society

D1/52/1–12 Draft rules 1938 May 2 – Oct 14

D1/52/13 Understanding between Fabian Society and New

Fabian Research Bureau: list with note of officers’

salaries

1938 Nov 25

D1/52/14–31 Correspondence 1938 Jul 4 – Aug 11, n.d.

D1/53/1 Minutes of joint meeting of the Fabian Society and

New Fabian Research Bureau sub-committees

1938 Sep 26

D1/53/2 Suggested agenda for first joint executive meeting n.d.

D1/53/3–6 Seventh annual general meeting of the New Fabian

Research Bureau: draft resolutions, agenda, minutes

1938 Oct 10 – Nov 25

D1/53/7–9 Circulars to members 1938 Oct – Nov


B a c k t o t o p

D1/54–56 Economic Committee

D1/54/1–4 List of committee members, lists of sub-committee

members

1931 c.

D1/54/5–8 Agendas, minutes 1931 Jun 5 – Jul 16

D1/54/9 Report on research 1931 Dec 3

D1/55/1 MS list of memoranda n.d.

D1/55/2 Some questions on distribution: memorandum by

G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

D1/55/3 Socialism and wage policy: memorandum by

H.T.N. Gaitskell

n.d.

D1/55/4 The price level and industrial fluctuation: typescript

sketch

1931 Jun 10

D1/55/5 Patents: memorandum by N.H. Moller 1931 Jul

D1/56/1 Notes on an international economic policy for a

British Labour government: memorandum by

H.N. Brailsford

1935 Mar 15

D1/56/2 The central machinery of economic planning:

memorandum by G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

D1/56/3–6 Comments on above by C.R. Attlee, H. Morrison,

G. Haldane, G.R. Mitchison

1937 Apr 21 – Aug 24

D1/57–58 Socialisation Committee

D1/57/1 Socialization of the gas industry: memorandum by

H.E. Caustin

1936 Feb 11

D1/57/2 Interim report on Whitley Council schemes by

F.F. Grigson [lacking page 8]

1932 Oct 20

D1/57/3 Compensation: memorandum by G. Wansbrough 1937 Feb 26

D1/57/4 Education and industry: memorandum by Barbara

Drake

1931 Nov 17

D1/58/1 Nationalisation of armaments in France: summary

of developments

1936 Aug c.

D1/58/2 Draft heads for inquiry into armaments n.d.

D1/58/3,4 Notes on the preparation of a plan for the

socialisation of particular industries: by

G.D.H. Cole

1933 Oct 18


B a c k t o t o p

D1/58/5,6 Memorandum on disposal of the profits and the

control of the expenditure of socialised

undertakings: by G.D.H. Cole, with observations by

C.R. Attlee

1931 Dec 14, 1932 Jan 6

D1/58/7 Notes on Emergency Powers Act 1939 c.

D1/59–61 Research memoranda

D1/59/1–10 Research proposals into economic policy, industrial

policy, imperial problems, trade, technical research,

the Soviet Union

1931 May – 1932 Jul 11

D1/60/1,2 Synopsis of Bureau’s plan of research. Preliminary

notes for social services inquiry

1932 Aug 26

1938 Jun

D1/60/3 Outline of a book on the Soviet Union 1932 c.

D1/60/4–8 Plans for research into trade, wages, taxation, social

services, economic policy, capital, the reform of

Parliament

n.d.

D1/61/1,2 Research Committee: minutes, agenda 1938 Feb 28 – Oct 3

D1/61/3–6 Reports on research programme 1932 Mar 14 – Dec,

1938 Sep 28

D1/62 New Fabian Research Bureau

conferences

D1/62/1,2 Weekend Conference on Socialisation of Banking:

outlines of speeches, minutes of proceedings

1932 Jan 30

D1/62/3 Third International Conference on Planned

Economics: circular

1937 Oct 23–24

D1/62/4 Conference on the Strategic Situation in Europe:

report

1938 Jun 18–19

D1/63–65 Other Fabian Research Bureau material

D1/63/1,2 Correspondence 1932 Mar 16, 1933 Oct 28

D1/64/1–7 Press cuttings 1931 May 9 – 1938 Dec 10

D1/65/1–4 Leaflets, membership forms 1931 Jun 25 – 1936 c.

D1/65/5 The corporate movement and municipal trading:

memorandum submitted by the Horace Plunkett

Foundation

1934 Feb 17

D1/65/6 Lists of members of Appeal Committee, Panel on

International Research, International Committee

n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

D1/65/7 Meeting of officers: minutes 1938 Sep 13

D1/65/8 Study group lectures 1938 Oct – Dec

D1/65/9 Memorandum by Haldane Club on Emergency

Powers Act

1932 Nov 4

D1/66–69 Friday Group

D1/66/1 List of members 1932 Oct 26

D1/66/2–5 Minutes of meetings 1932 May 13 – Nov 11

D1/67 Easton Lodge weekend, 16–17 April

1932

D1/67/1,2 Notes for discussion. Minutes 1932 Apr

D1/67/3 Questions for discussion: MS circular by

G.D.H. Cole

1932 Apr c.

D1/67/4–8 Answers to questions for discussion by M. Cole,

C. Addison, H. Dalton

1932 Apr c.

D1/67/9 Circular 1932 Apr

D1/68–69 Memoranda, correspondence

D1/68/1,2 A Labour programme of action: memorandum 1932 May c.

D1/68/3 Departmental reorganisation: memorandum 1931 Mar 19

D1/68/4–6 Memoranda on cabinet reconstruction by

C.R. Attlee, H. Dalton, E. Shinwell

1932 Oct 12 – Nov 10

D1/68/7–11 Memoranda on parliamentary procedure by

G.D.H. Cole, E. Radice, H. Dalton, C. Addison,

J. Horrabin

1932 Oct 21 – Nov 30

D1/69/1–56 Correspondence 1932 Mar 8 – Oct 10


B a c k t o t o p

D2 Labour Party 38



Propaganda

44

D5 Popular front 46



Studies

47


B a c k t o t o p

D2 Labour Party

D2/1 Advisory Committee on Industrial

Affairs

D2/1/1 A guild alternative to capitalist private enterprise:

memorandum by M. Sparkes

1923 Jan 10

D2/2–3 Advisory Committee on Local

Government

D2/2/1 Memorandum by the Secretary on the further work

of the Advisory Committee on Local Government

1920 c.

D2/2/2–4 Sub-committee on Ports: report 1920 Oct 13

D2/2/5–7 Sub-committee on Town Planning: notes by

R.L. Reiss, notes by J. Wedgwood, report of work

1920 Dec

D2/2/8–13 Notes, memoranda on local government reform by

G.D.H. Cole, H. Morrison, C.R. Attlee, with note on

electricity grid. Memorandum on Ministry of

Health Bill

1920 May 11 – Dec 16

D2/3/1,2 Draft pamphlet on reform of local government

areas, with notes by H. Morrison

1921 Jan c.

D2/3/3–9 Memoranda on boards of guardians by C.M. Lloyd,

local government by Herbert Morrison, local

finance by F.W. Pethick Lawrence, by Sidney

Webb, municipal banks by Thomas Johnston, by

A.E. Lauder, by the City Treasurer of Birmingham

1921 May 12 – Jul 29

D2/3/10,11 Circular letters on Bradford City boundary 1922 Feb 28, Mar 15

D2/3/12 Draft report on the reform of local government

areas

1921

D2/4 Advisory Committee on London Local

Government

D2/4/1 Report, committee papers 1921 Nov 21 – 1922 Jun 8

D2/4/2,3 Press cuttings 1921 Nov 30, 1923 Mar 22

D2/5 Finance and Trade Committee

D2/5/1,2 Industrial compensation: memorandum submitted

by the New Fabian Research Bureau

1933 Dec


B a c k t o t o p

D2/5/3 Letter from W. Mellor to G.D.H. Cole,

Some notes on compensation by W. Mellor,

Memorandum on coal industry by G.D.H. Cole

1933 Dec 7

n.d.

1933 Dec 1

D2/5/4–6 Correspondence 1933 Nov 27 – Dec 2

D2/6–7 Oxford University Labour Club

D2/6/1–14 Oxford University Labour Club bulletin:

photocopies of originals

1939 Oct 24 – 1940 May 28

D2/6/15 Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club:

message from university lecturers

1940 c.

D2/7/1 Oxford University Labour Club: press cutting 1939 Jan 10

D2/7/2–4 Correspondence about Cole’s candidature for

Parliament

1942 Nov 13–18

D2/7/5 Oxford University gazette 1945 Jun 26

D2/7/6,7 Election address of G.D.H. Cole for General

Election of 1945. Blank voting paper

1945 Jul

D2/8 Labour Book Service, Left Book Club

D2/8/1–7 Correspondence 1939 Mar 2 – 1940 Jan 9

D2/9 Other Labour Party material

D2/9/1,2 Labour Annual Calendar: proofs [photocopies] 1895

D2/9/3 Prevention of Unemployment Bill 1921 Apr 2

D3 Guild socialism and workers’

control

D3/1–12 National Guilds League

D3/1 Foundation, rules

D3/1/1,2 Preparatory meeting: MS resolutions.

Conference: agenda

1915 Mar c.

1915 Apr 20–21

D3/1/3–8 Rules, with press cutting 1915 Apr c. – 1922


B a c k t o t o p


D3/2/1 Minutes of joint meeting with the London Group

Executive Committee

1916 Jun 19

D3/2/2–4 Agendas, motions 1918 Sep 30 – 1919 Jan 17

D3/2/5,6 Balance sheets 1916 Dec 31, 1922 Mar

D3/2/7–12 Circulars 1916 Jun – 1917 Feb

D3/2/13 Votes cast for Executive Committee members:

MS note

1915 – 1919

D3/3–7 Conferences, meetings

D3/3/1,2 Second annual meeting: agenda, minutes 1917 Apr 7–8

D3/4/1,2 Third and fifth annual conferences: reports

[photocopy of D3/4/1]

1918 Jul, 1920 May – Jun

D3/4/3 Fourth annual conference: circular 1919 Apr 3

D3/4/4 Report of the Committee of Five appointed at the

fifth annual meeting on 8 May 1920

1920 May c.

D3/4/5–6 Seventh annual meeting, Joint conference with other

guild bodies: notice, agendas

1922 Apr 29–30

D3/5/1 Annual conference of 1920, Special conference of

1920, Annual conference of 1921: MS notebook

1920 – 1921

D3/5/2 Special conference: agenda 1920 Dec 11–12

D3/6/1,2 National Guild conference: application form

including provisional agenda, report

1922 Apr 29–30

D3/6/3–5 Second National Guild conference: application form

including agenda

1922 Nov 4

D3/6/6,7 Special National Guild conference: agendas,

application form

1924 Mar 15

D3/7/1 Manchester Group of National Guilds League:

Conference on workers’ control in industry: notice

1919 Dec 6

D3/7/2,3 Birmingham Group of National Guilds League:

Conference on unemployment and industrial

maintenance: circular, notice

1921 Jan 17, Feb 5


B a c k t o t o p


D3/8/1–3 Vigilance Committee on After-war Problems:

Observations on ... Joint Standing Industrial

Councils,

Notes for trade unionists in connection with ... the

Whitley report, with MS draft

1917

1918

D3/8/4 MS list of committees and their members n.d.

D3/9 Study Circle

D3/9/1 Syllabus of trades unionism for guildsmen n.d.

D3/9/2–13 Teaching aids, syllabuses on trades unions n.d.

D3/9/14 Education under the guilds: questionnaire n.d.

D3/10 Bramerton Street Circle

D3/10/1 Circular 1919 May 10

D3/10/2 Subjects for discussion 1919 Nov 10

D3/10/3,4 Memoranda on the state by Margaret Cole 1919 c.

D3/10/5–9 Co-operation and national guilds: memoranda 1919 Oct

D3/10/10,11 The democratic state: notes.

Local authorities in a guild society: notes

1919 c.

D3/11–12 Other National Guilds League material

D3/11/1–11 Lecture notices [for lectures by Cole see A1/49–50] 1917 Nov – 1921 Feb

D3/12/1–12 Leaflets, circulars 1915 – 1921 c.

D3/13 National Guild Council

D3/13/1,2 Constitution 1922 Dec 9, 1924 Mar 15

D3/13/3 Membership card n.d.

D3/13/4–6 Leaflets, circulars 1923

D3/13/7–11 Workers’ control in industry: memorandum

presented to the Minister of Labour, with

correspondence

1922 May – 1924


B a c k t o t o p

D3/14–26 Other guild socialism material

D3/14 Articles [for lectures and articles by Cole see A1/46–52]

D3/14/1–18 New age: articles 1914 Nov 19 – 1915 Jul 15

[incomplete]

D3/14/19–23 Leeds & district weekly citizen: articles by members

of the National Guilds League Executive Committee

1915 Jul 9 – Aug 6

D3/15 Storrington document

D3/15/1 MS drafts by G.D.H. Cole, W. Mellor, M. Reckitt 1914 Dec

D3/15/2–5 Amended drafts 1915 c.

D3/15/6 Revised version: typescript 1915

D3/16 Conferences on guild socialism

D3/16/1 London Council of the National Union of

Railwaymen: Conference on the future control of

the railways: notice

1919 Oct

D3/16/2 Private conference on guild socialism: notice 1919 Sep 27 – Oct 4

D3/16/3 Women’s International League: Conference on

women and guild socialism: notice

1920 May 4

D3/16/4 London Trades Council: Conference on national

guilds: notice

1921? Oct 22

D3/16/5,6 Resolutions from unidentified conferences on guild

socialism

n.d.

D3/17 Drafts, sketches

D3/17/1–3 MS notes by W. Mellor and G.D.H. Cole for

prospective book on guild socialism

n.d.

D3/17/4 After the war: MS and typescript drafts by

W. Mellor

n.d.

D3/17/5 Women: MS notes by G.D.H. Cole n.d.

D3/17/6 A revised catechism of national guilds: MS draft by

G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

D3/17/7 The problem: typescript draft with annotations by

W. Mellor

n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

D3/18–21 Correspondence, press cuttings, other

material relating to guild socialism

D3/18/1–24 Correspondence 1914 Jun 24 – 1940 Feb 10

D3/19/1–30 Press cuttings 1917 Feb 17 – 1924 Feb 21

D3/20/1 It is beyond me: annotated draft for article by

Hilaire Belloc originally published in The

guildsman

n.d.

D3/20/2 Workers’ Control League: circular, aims, The trade

unions and the guild idea (memorandum by

J. Henry Lloyd)

1915 c.

D3/20/3 Notes on guild records with list of guild addresses 1924 c.

D3/20/4 Registry of Friendly Societies: instructions for

application

n.d.

D3/21/1 Croydon Trades Council: programme of lectures n.d.

D3/21/2 Notes by G.D.H. Cole on share ownership 1923 May c.

D3/21/3 Letter from A.R. Orage to John Gaudy-Beurch 1913 May 27

D3/21/4 The case for an inquiry: memorandum by

H. Barham and M. Sparkes on the National Building

Guild

n.d.

D3/21/5 National Guild of the Pottery Industry: constitution n.d.

D3/22–24 Conferences on Workers’ Control 1933

D3/22/1 Draft heads for discussion at Conference on

Workers’ Control: memorandum

1933 Jan c.

D3/22/2 Discussion on workers’ control: minutes of meeting 1933 Jan 21

D3/22/3 Conference of 1 April 1933: minutes, with letter

from William Mellor? to G.D.H. Cole

1933 Apr 1, May 3

D3/22/4,5 Conference of 13 May 1933: minutes, summary of

decisions taken on memorandum on workers’

control

1933 May 13, 17

D3/23/1–14 Memoranda on workers’ control by F.W. Andrews,

J.W. Bowen, Harold Clay, John Cliff, G.D.H. Cole,

P. Collick, A. Creech-Jones, Charles Dukes,

G. Maurice Hann, E.H. Littlecott, J. Marchbank,

G. Ridley, G.W. Thomson, J. Walker

1933 Jan c.

D3/24/1 Union of Post Office Workers: report by sub-

committee on workers’ control

1933 Jan 11

D3/24/2–6 Memorandum on workers’ control and self-

government in industry: drafts, letter to J. Walker

1933 Mar 6 – Jun


B a c k t o t o p

D3/24/7–11 Correspondence 1932 Dec 12 – 1933 Apr 10

D3/25 Democracy in industry

D3/25/1–16 Draft of memorandum by [?] Price, criticisms by

G.D.H. Cole and by T. Hodgkins, correspondence

1942 Aug 13 – 1943 Oct 29

D3/26 Workers’ management in Yugoslavia and

socialist democracy

D3/26/1 Memorandum produced by the Yugoslav Embassy 1955 Jul


Propaganda

D4/1 Easton Lodge memoranda

D4/1/1–7 Memoranda on the machinery of government 1931 Feb

D4/1/8 The public control of basic industries, with

supplementary memorandum on Royal Mail Group

1931 Feb 20

D4/1/9 Iron and steel 1931 Feb c.

D4/1/10 Unemployment insurance 1931 Feb 20

D4/2 Foundation, rules

D4/2/1,2 Rules, with introductory circular 1931

D4/2/3 Aims and methods: leaflet 1931

D4/2/4,5 Membership cards of G.D.H. Cole 1931 Mar – 1933 Jun


D4/3/1,2 Memorandum by G.D.H. Cole about the

disaffiliation of the Independent Labour Party from

the Labour Party

1932 Jul 7

D4/4 Annual report

D4/4/1 Annual report for year ending 31 March 1932 1932 Mar c.


B a c k t o t o p

D4/5 SSIP memoranda

D4/5/1 Some notes on the publication of a disarmament

pamphlet

1931 Jul

D4/5/2,3 Causes of defeat by G.D.H. Cole. The election

issue: capitalism versus socialism

1931 Dec c.

D4/5/4 Memoranda on socialist policy by G.R. Mitchison

and G.D.H. Cole

1932 Aug 10

D4/5/5,6 Suggestions for future work. Some suggestions for

the conduct of study groups

1931 Nov

D4/5/7 Notes for discussion on propaganda by

G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

D4/6 Circulars

D4/6/1–4 Circulars 1930 Nov – 1932 Oct

D4/7 S.S.I.P. news

D4/7/1–6 S.S.I.P. news 1931 Dec – 1932 May

D4/7/7,8 S.S.I.P. news 1932 Jun – Jul

D4/7/9,10 S.S.I.P. news 1932 Aug – Sep

D4/8–9 Correspondence, press cutting

D4/8/1–39 Correspondence about SSIP 1932 May 30 – Sep 29

D4/9/1–4 Press cuttings about SSIP 1931 Jun 6, 1932 Oct 15, n.d.

D4/10 Local groups

D4/10/1 Cambridge Branch: an analysis of recent capital

issues

n.d.

D4/11 The Socialist League

D4/11/1 Notes for a study group based on the Socialist

League manifesto Forward to socialism

n.d.

D4/11/2,3 Circular, list of addresses 1937 May 31

D4/11/4–57 Correspondence 1937 May 31 – Jun 11


B a c k t o t o p

D5 Popular front

D5/1/1 Statement on the need for a people’s front 1937

D5/1/2 Problems of unity and the people’s front: open letter

by the editorial board of Labour monthly

1937 Feb 14

D5/1/3–7 Open letters appealing for internationalism and a

popular front to avert war

1937 Jan

D5/1/8,9 Notes by G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole 1937 c.

D5/1/10 Minutes of meeting of the directors of The new

outlook

1936 Oct 15

D5/2/1–38 Correspondence about a popular front 1936 Jun 19 – 1937 Sep 16

D5/3/1–6 Press cuttings about a popular front 1936 May 24 – 1937 Jan 18

D6 Social Security League

D6/1 Committee minutes

D6/1/1 Minutes of preliminary meeting 1943 Mar 22

D6/1/2–5 Agendas of Management Committee 1943 Jun 8, Jul 22, 1944 Apr

17, May 23

D6/1/6–12 Minutes of Management Committee 1943 May 25, Jul 1, Oct 5,

1944 Jan 11, Mar 7, 14, Apr 7

D6/1/13 Minutes of Policy Committee 1944 Jun 20

D6/2–4 Other Social Security League material

D6/2/1 Secretary’s first report 1943 Jun 1

D6/3/1–7 Press releases 1943 Sep 20 – 1944 Jun 23

D6/3/8 White paper on full employment: memorandum by

G.D.H. Cole

1944 Jun 10

D6/3/9,10 Advice for speakers on the Beveridge plan n.d.

D6/3/11 Press cutting 1943 Jul 29

D6/4/1–42 Correspondence 1943 Feb 27 – 1944 Jun 23


B a c k t o t o p


Studies

D7/1 Rules, constitutions

D7/1/1–8 Drafts, amendments 1956 Jul – 1957 Mar 30

D7/2 Committees

D7/2/1–19 Minutes, papers of the Executive Committee 1956 May 3 – 1957 Apr 3

D7/2/20 First report of the Research Sub-committee 1957 Mar 10

D7/3 Reports, accounts

D7/3/1,2 First annual report 1956–1957 1957 Mar

D7/3/3 Statement of income and expenditure 1957 Mar

D7/4 Conferences

D7/4/1–8 Oxford Conference on Socialism (16–18 July

1955): agenda, speech, notes on proceedings by

G.D.H. Cole, statement by Conference,

correspondence

1955 Jun 23 – Jul 18

D7/4/9–21 Paris Conference on Socialism (23–26 March

1956): agenda, list of participants, notes by

G.D.H. Cole for speech, minutes, resolutions,

correspondence

1956 Feb 1 – Mar 26

D7/4/22–25 Conference on International Socialism (London,

27–28 April 1957): circular, agenda, notes by Lelio

Basso, notes by G.D.H. Cole

1957 Apr c.

D7/5 Newsletters

D7/5/1–8 World socialist movement [from September 1956

called I.S.S.S. news bulletin]

1955 Aug – 1957 Mar

D7/5/9 Labour peace leader 1956 Feb – Mar

D7/5/10,11 Der einzige Weg 1955 Oct, 1956 Apr

D7/5/12–16 Issues of some European socialist journals 1956 Feb – Aug

D7/6 Memoranda, leaflets

D7/6/1–10 Leaflets about the ISSS and open letters from the

President, G.D.H. Cole

1956 Apr 6 – 1957 May


B a c k t o t o p

D7/6/11,12 Memoranda on organisation 1956 Nov

D7/6/13–15 Suggestions for a research programme, Reflections

on the past twelve months: memoranda by

G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

D7/7 Membership

D7/7/1 Directory of members 1956 Jul

D7/7/2 List of members and those interested in the ISSS n.d.

D7/7/3 Survey of correspondence 1956 Nov 10

D7/8 Lectures

D7/8/1,2 Programmes of lectures 1957

D7/9–19 ISSS correspondence

D7/9/1–70 From Great Britain: Abramsky – Freeman 1956 Apr 10 – 1957 May 11

D7/10/1–48 From Great Britain: Gaze – Isaac 1956 Apr 18 – 1957 Jan 28

D7/11/1–31 From Great Britain: Jacottet – Malekin 1956 Apr 11 – 1957 Jan 9

D7/12/1–14 From Great Britain: Martin – Pande 1956 Apr 5 – Jun 4

D7/13/1–55 From Great Britain: Papworth 1956 May 28 – 1957 Jul 5

D7/14/1–45 From Great Britain: Parker – Roddam 1955 Mar 28 – 1957 Jun 28

D7/15/1–22 From Great Britain: Storey – Young 1956 Apr 11 – 1957 Feb 11

D7/16/1–35 From abroad, excluding the United States of

America: Aaron – Katz-Suchy

1956 Apr 10 – 1957 Jun 11


America: Labrousse – Rapp

1956 Apr 20 – 1957 May 13


America: Rocard – Vlkov

1956 Mar 27 – 1957 Jun 3

D7/19/1–34 From the United States of America: Atlas – Wilcox 1955 Apr 25 – 1956 Sep 7

D7/20–21 Press cuttings, photograph

D7/20/1–5 Press cuttings 1955 Apr 2 – Oct 15

D7/21/1 Group photograph of the Oxford Conference 1955 Jul


B a c k t o t o p

E

Education

G.D.H. Cole was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from

1912 to 1919. Throughout the First World War, he taught at

evening classes and in 1921 was appointed director of tutorial

classes at the University of London. Although he resigned

from this post in 1925, he continued to be involved with adult

education and with the Workers’ Educational Association in

particular. In 1926 he tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the

Trades Union Congress to establish a labour college at Easton

Lodge.

Cole’s career at Oxford resumed in 1925 on his appointment

as University Reader in Economics and Fellow of University

College. In June 1939 he was appointed to a faculty

fellowship at Nuffield College; five years later he became

Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and a

Fellow of All Souls College.

In the late 1940s Cole was an enthusiastic participant in the

Common Ground project, which aimed to produce film strips

and booklets for use in schools. His own collection of

illustrations was utilised for this end. The UNESCO seminar

on workers’ education at Château de la Brévière took place

under Cole’s direction in 1952. He went on to become

chairman of the UNESCO consultative committee, a post from

which he resigned in 1956.

E1 Lectures 50

E2 Workers’ education 51

E3 University of Oxford 52

E4 Easton Lodge 54

E5 Common ground 55

E6 United Nations Educational, Scientific

and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

63


B a c k t o t o p

E1 Lectures [for lectures given as Chichele Professor of Social

and Political Theory see E3]

E1/1/1–7 British trade overseas from 1760:

six lectures covering the period 1760–1930:

MS drafts,

notes

1931 c.

n.d.

E1/2/1–12 Eight lectures on the crisis: lectures covering both

domestic and international aspects: MS drafts

1931 c.

E1/3/1–5 Fourteen lectures on distribution:

MS drafts,

notes

1929 c. – 1931 c.

n.d.

E1/4/1 Economic organisation in the light of recent events:

MS drafts

1935 c.

E1/5/1 The present economic position of Great Britain

[including a lecture on Britain’s industrial past]: MS

drafts

1931 May – Jun

E1/6/1 Seven lectures on the economic system: MS drafts n.d.

E1/7/1–4 Seven lectures on the economic system:

lectures, notes, graphs

n.d.

E1/8/1 What is economics about?: MS drafts n.d.

E1/9/1 The organisation of industry:

notes for fourteen lectures

1925 c.

E1/9/2 Organisation of modern industry:

notes, graphs for seven lectures

1926 c.

E1/9/3 Organisation of modern industry: part 2: notes n.d.

E1/9/4 The structure of industry: four lectures: MS drafts n.d.

E1/10/1 Fourteen lectures on business: MS drafts 1930 c.

E1/11/1 Lectures on production: fourteen lectures:

MS drafts

1929 c.

E1/12/1 Seventeenth-century economic history: notes for

lectures, with booklist

n.d.

E1/13 Outlines of lectures

E1/13/1,2 Programmes of lectures on trade unions n.d.

E1/13/3 Summaries of eight lectures on British economic

history from 1760

1941 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E1/13/4 The economics of the New Deal:

outline for six lectures

n.d.

E1/13/5 Plan for twelve lectures on economic and social

history from 1760

n.d.

E2 Workers’ education

E2/1 Tutorial class syllabuses

E2/1/1 Oxford University tutorial class: syllabus for

G.D.H. Cole’s lectures on economic and

constitutional history of England 1485–1815

1915

E2/1/2–27 University of London tutorial classes: syllabuses for

G.D.H. Cole’s lectures

1916 – 1939

E2/1/28–37 University of London tutorial classes: syllabuses for

lectures by other tutors

1919 – 1931

E2/2 Tutorial class notes, statistics

E2/2/1,2 Notes by G.D.H. Cole for tutorial classes n.d.

E2/2/3 University of London advanced tutorial class:

statistics relating to international trade

1925

E2/3 Workers’ Educational Association

conferences

E2/3/1 Conference on the Teaching of Economics in Adult

Classes: report

1935 May 24

E2/3/2–4 Conference on Constructive Teaching: list of

participants, notes for speech by Cole, notes for

conference by Barbara Wootton, report of

conference

1938 Oct 26 – Nov 26

E2/4 General Conference of International

Federation of Workers’ Educational

Associations

E2/4/1–5 Circular, list of delegates, address of the President,

motions, programme

1953 May 5–28

E2/4/6 Statement on future policy 1953 May 5

E2/4/7 Secretariat and Executive Committee: report for

1950–1952

1953 May c.


B a c k t o t o p

E2/4/8 Notes for speech by G.D.H. Cole 1953 May 26

E2/4/9–17 Correspondence 1952 Nov 21 – 1953 May 12

E2/5–6 Other material relating to workers’

education

E2/5/1,2 Correspondence with the National Council of

Labour Colleges

1944 May 3, 1949 Jun 6

E2/6/1,2 Caldecott Community: reports for 1920–23,

1924–25

1924, 1926

E3 University of Oxford

E3/1–27 Lectures

E3/1/1–22 Introduction to social and political theory: twelve

lectures: MS and typescript drafts

1952

E3/2/1–25 Introduction to social and political theory (second

course: twelve lectures: MS and typescript drafts

1952

E3/3/1–9 Prolegomena to social and political theory:

MS and typescript drafts,

notes

1950 Jan

1950 Jan c.

E3/4/1–8 Social and political theory: seven lectures:

typescript drafts

1955 Oct – Dec

E3/5/1 Introduction to social theory: fifteen lectures:

MS notes

1950 c.

E3/6/1 Social and political theory: second version:

five lectures: MS notes, drafts

1951 c.

E3/7/1–3 Social and political theory: MS notes, drafts 1950 – 1954 c.

E3/8/1–8 Eight lectures on political theory: typescript drafts n.d.

E3/9/1 Relations between political and economic theory:

eight lectures: notes

1940 c.

E3/10/1 Politico-economic theories: part 1: lectures on

thinkers from Hobbes to the French Revolution: MS

and typescript drafts

1951?

E3/11/1,2 Politico-economic theories: part 2: lectures on

period from French Revolution to 1850:

typescript draft, MS notes

1952?


period from 1850: MS and typescript drafts

1952


B a c k t o t o p


period from 1850: MS and typescript drafts

[continued]

1952

E3/14/1 Questions asked in political theory through the

centuries: nine lectures: MS drafts

n.d.

E3/15/1 The theory of human relations [lecture series]:

MS drafts, plans

1950 c.

E3/16/1–4 The concept of democracy:

MS drafts,

press cuttings from Soviet news

1949 c.

1945 Nov 5 – 1946 Jan 23

E3/17/1–11 Lectures on equality: MS and typescript drafts,

notes

1955 c.

E3/18/1–13 Rousseau’s politics: nine lectures:

MS and typescript drafts

1955 c.

E3/19/1 Socialist theories from 1789: typescript draft n.d.

E3/20/1 Socialist theories from 1789: typescript draft

[continued]

n.d.

E3/21/1 Socialist theories from 1848: fourteen lectures:


n.d.

E3/22/1–12 Types of socialist theory: typescript drafts 1956 Apr

E3/22/13 MS draft of a memorial lecture for Harold Laski

given on 3 July 1951 [incomplete]

n.d.

E3/23/1 The foundation of politics in Great Britain today:

MS notes, drafts

1950 c.

E3/24/1–5 The political condition of Great Britain:


n.d.

E3/25/1 Theory of local government: six lectures: MS notes n.d.

E3/26/1 Auguste Comte: typescript draft 1948 Nov

E3/26/2 La déclaration des droits de l’homme et du citoyen:

typescript draft

1949 Jan 28

E3/26/3 The communist manifesto of 1848: typescript draft 1949 Feb 11

E3/27/1 James Harrington and his “Oceana”: typescript

draft

1950 May

E3/27/2 Turgot and Condorcet: typescript draft 1952 Oct

E3/27/3 The school in social theory: typescript draft, with

lecture notice

1953 Feb 13


B a c k t o t o p

E3/28 “Circus” lecture series

E3/28/1–4 Landmarks in modern political development: lists of

lectures and lecturers

1948 Nov c.

E3/28/5,6 Faculty of Social Studies: lecture list for Trinity

Term 1950, with proof

1950

E3/28/7–64 Correspondence 1948 Nov 18 – 1950 Mar 13

E3/29 Other material

E3/29/1–70 Correspondence 1931 Nov 6 – 1957 Jun 3

E4 Easton Lodge

E4/1 Reports, draft schemes

E4/1/1 Draft scheme for co-operative and trade union

residential education

1925 Mar

E4/1/2 Trades Union Congress Education Advisory

Committee: report of sub-committee representing

educational organisations

1924 c.

E4/2 Articles, memoranda, notes

E4/2/1,2 Memorandum on the proposed Trade Union

College at Easton Lodge by G.D.H. Cole: typescript

and MS draft

1926 Apr 6, n.d.

E4/2/3 A proposed curriculum for the Trade Union College

at Easton Lodge by G.M. Colman, with note by

G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

E4/2/4 Memorandum on layout of Easton Lodge n.d.

E4/2/5 “Easton Lodge: the plea of an enthusiast” by

G.D.H. Cole in Labour magazine

1926 Sep

E4/2/6 Draft scheme of first-year classes, salaries and cost

of teaching staff, floor plan: notes by G.D.H. Cole

n.d.

E4/3 Circulars, correspondence

E4/3/1,2 Circular about Ruskin College (Oxford), circular

about proposals relating to Ruskin College, the

Labour College (London) and Easton Lodge

1924 Dec 30, 1925 Feb 9

E4/3/3–11 Correspondence about Easton Lodge 1925 Apr 20 – 1926 Jun 26


B a c k t o t o p

E5 Common Ground

E5/1–3 Catalogues

E5/1/1,2 Educational Foundation for Visual Aids: catalogues

for film strips parts 1 and 2

1949

E5/2/1,2 Common Ground film strip textbooks: catalogues

for 1951 and 1953

1951, 1953

E5/3/1 Common Ground film strip textbooks: catalogue for

1954

1954

E5/4–11 MS notes, drafts for film strips [by G.D.H. Cole unless otherwise indicated]

E5/4–7 Economics: Introduction to economics

E5/4/1–10 MS and typescript drafts of strips 1–2 1948 Jul 6 – 1949 May 11

E5/5/1–5 Typescript drafts of strips 3–5 1950 Nov 2

E5/6/1–18 Illustrations, drafts 1950 Jan 21 – Oct

E5/7/1–11 Correspondence 1950 Oct 16 – 1954 Mar 23

E5/8 Political and constitutional: Development of the

electoral system by G. Jahoda

E5/8/1 Draft introduction by G.D.H. Cole 1946 Nov

E5/8/2–5 Lists of illustrations, notes about illustrations, draft

for film strip

1946 c.

E5/8/6 Letter from G.D.H. Cole to G. Jahoda 1946 Oct 8

E5/9 History: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

E5/9/1 Notes 1948 c.

E5/9/2 Strip textbook reference sheets [lacking part 10] n.d.

E5/9/3,4 Correspondence 1948 Aug 13, 18

E5/10 Class structure [outline for film strip]

E5/10/1,2 Notes on illustrations 1947 c.

E5/10/3–9 Correspondence 1947 Mar 26 – Dec 2

E5/10/10 Press cutting 1949 Jan 4


B a c k t o t o p

E5/11 Local government [outline for film strip]

E5/11/1 Notes 1948 c.

E5/11/2,3 Outline, with correspondence 1948 Mar 22

E5/12–49 Printed teaching notes for film strips [by G.D.H. Cole unless otherwise indicated]

E5/12 Civics: Town and country planning series

E5/12/1 Part 1: The need for planning by Max Lock 1950 c.

E5/12/2,3 Part 2: Investigating towns (2 parts) by Max Lock

and Frank Layfield

1950 c.

E5/13 Civics: individual topics

E5/13/1 Local government: part 1 by J. Sutcliffe 1950 c.

E5/14 Economics: An introduction to economics

E5/14/1 Part 1: Land and capital 1950 c.

E5/14/2 Part 2: Labour and employment 1950 c.

E5/14/3 Part 3: Costs and prices 1950 c.

E5/15 Economics: individual topics

E5/15/1 What are banks? by F.G. Wigglesworth 1950 c.

E5/16 English: English literature series

E5/16/1,2 Chaucer’s prologue (2 parts) by

W. Carpenter-Jacobs

1950 c.

E5/17–18 History: Lives of famous men series

E5/17/1–3 Life of William Cobbett (3 parts) 1950 c.

E5/17/4,5 Life of Robert Owen (2 parts) 1950 c.

E5/18/1–3 Life of William Morris (3 parts) 1950 c.

E5/19 History: Growth of the British Commonwealth

E5/19/1 New Zealand by Frederick Madden 1950 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E5/20 History: Making of modern Germany

E5/20/1–6 Parts 1–6 by W. Schenk 1950 c.

E5/21 History: History of Russia

E5/21/1,2 Parts 1–2 by John Lawrence 1950 c.

E5/22 History: Medieval life

E5/22/1 The village by A.C. Green 1950 c.

E5/23 History: The development of tools and apparatus

E5/23/1 The plough by I. Lockyer 1950 c.

E5/24 History: Historic records series

E5/24/1 The Great Exhibition of 1851 by C.H. Gibbs-Smith 1950 c.

E5/25 History: Social and economic history of Britain

1600–1740

E5/25/1–6 Parts 1–6 by H. Hamilton 1950 c.

E5/26–28 History: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

E5/26/1–4 Parts 1–4 1950 c.

E5/27/1–4 Parts 5–8 1950 c.

E5/28/1–4 Parts 9–12 1950 c.

E5/29–32 History: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

(revised edition)

E5/29/1 General introduction 1950 c.

E5/30/1–4 Parts 1–4 1950 c.

E5/31/1–4 Parts 5–8 1950 c.

E5/32/1–4 Parts 9–12 1950 c.

E5/33–38 History: British industry one hundred years ago

E5/33/1–5 General introduction and parts 1–4 1950 c.

E5/34/1–6 Parts 5–9 [including a second copy of part 9] 1950 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E5/35/1–5 Parts 10–13 [including revised edition of part 11] 1950 c.

E5/36/1–4 Parts 14–17 1950 c.

E5/37/1–6 Parts 18–21 [including two copies of part 18 and

revised edition of part 21]

1950 c.

E5/38/1–6 Parts 22–26 [including revised edition of part 25] 1950 c.

E5/39 History: Trade unionism

E5/39/1–4 Parts 1–4 1950 c.

E5/40 History: Story of the co-operative movement

E5/40/1–6 Parts 1–6 1950 c.

E5/41–44 Industry: Survey of British industry (edited by

G.D.H. Cole)

E5/41/1 Boot and shoe making: contemporary by

F.P. Wootton

1950 c.

E5/41/2 History of electricity, part 1: compass and electric

motor by C.L. Fortescue

1950 c.

E5/41/3 History of electricity, part 3: telecommunications

by C.L. Fortescue

1950 c.

E5/42/1,2 Gas industry: historical: parts 1–2 by Dean

Chandler

1950 c.

E5/42/3,4 Gas industry: contemporary: parts 1–2 by

E.G. Stewart

1950 c.

E5/43/1,2 Iron and steel: historical: parts 1–2 by

H.W. Dickinson

1950 c.

E5/43/3 Iron industry: contemporary by D.L. Burn 1950 c.

E5/43/4 Petroleum by C. Cochrane 1950 c.

E5/44/1 Plastics: celluloid manufacture by W.R. Brown 1950 c.

E5/44/2 How pottery is made by Josiah Wedgwood 1950 c.

E5/44/3,4 The development of power stations: parts 1–2 by

R.H. Parsons

1950 c.

E5/44/5,6 Water supply: historical: parts 1–2 by

H.W. Dickinson

1950 c.

E5/44/7 Water supply industry: contemporary by

P. Porteous

1950 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E5/45–48 Transport: The growth of transport (edited by

G.D.H. Cole)

E5/45/1–3 History of road transport: parts 1–3 by

K.G. Fenelon

1950 c.

E5/46/1–3 History of British railways: parts 1–3 by

J.H.S. Wild

1950 c.

E5/47/1–5 History of sea transport: parts 1–5 by F.C. Bowen 1950 c.

E5/48/1–4 History of aviation: parts 1–4 by A.H. Narracott 1950 c.

E5/48/5 British air routes: the Atlantic by N. Freeman 1950 c.

E5/49 Other teaching notes

E5/49/1 Europe’s children by Tom Hopkinson 1950 c.

E5/50–85 Prints of photographs used for film

strips

E5/50–56 History: Lives of famous men series: Life of

William Cobbett

E5/50/1–20 Part 1 1950 c.

E5/51/1–16 Part 1 (continued) 1950 c.

E5/52/1–16 Part 2 1950 c.


E5/54/1–11 Part 3 1950 c.


E5/56/1–30 Other Cobbett prints 1950 c.


William Morris

E5/57/1–20 Part 1 1950 c.


E5/59/1–24 Part 2 1950 c.


E5/61/1–14 Part 3 1950 c.


E5/63/1–17 Prints of Morris patterns 1950 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E5/64/1–20 Prints of Morris patterns 1950 c.

E5/65/1–16 Other Morris prints 1950 c.




Robert Owen

E5/68/1–25 Part 1 1950 c.


E5/70/1–16 Part 2 1950 c.


E5/72/1–13 Other Owen prints 1950 c.

E5/73–76 History: Development of the electoral system

E5/73/1–22 Part 1 1950 c.


E5/75/1–20 Part 2 1950 c.


E5/77 History: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

E5/77/1–20 Prints of posters used to illustrate text 1950 c.

E5/78 History: British industry one hundred years ago

E5/78/1–4 Four prints 1950 c.

E5/79–84 History: Story of the co-operative movement

E5/79/1–20 Prints illustrating the international co-operative

movement

1948 c.


movement

1948 c.


movement

1948 c.


B a c k t o t o p


movement

1948 c.

E5/83/1–22 Co-operatives in Nova Scotia [including articles on

co-operative housing, with transparencies of

photographs]

1949 c.

E5/84/1–14 Other co-operative movement prints 1950 c.

E5/85/1 View of Milton Abbas in Dorset n.d.

E5/86–128 Common Ground film strips

E5/86/1–26 History: British industry one hundred years ago

(parts 1–26)

1950 c.

E5/87/1–3 History: Lives of famous men series: life of William

Cobbett (parts 1–3)

1950 c.

E5/88/1–3 History: Lives of famous men series: life of William

Morris (parts 1–3)

1950 c.

E5/89/1,2 History: Lives of famous men series: life of Robert

Owen (parts 1–2)

1950 c.

E5/90/1–12 History: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

(parts 1–12)

1950 c.

E5/91/1–3 Civics: Town and country planning series (parts

1–3)

1950 c.

E5/92/1 Civics and careers: Local government

administration

1950 c.

E5/93/1–3 Economics: An introduction to economics (parts

1–3)

1950 c.

E5/94/1 Economics: Economics preview 3 1950 c.

E5/95/1 Economics: What are banks? 1950 c.

E5/96/1,2 English: English literature series: Chaucer’s

prologue (parts 1–2)

1950 c.

E5/97/1 History: Growth of the British Commonwealth: New

Zealand

1950 c.

E5/98/1–6 History: Making of modern Germany (parts 1–6) 1950 c.

E5/99/1,2 History: History of Russia (parts 1–2) 1950 c.

E5/100/1 History: Living before history: cave men and

hunters

1950 c.

E5/101/1 History: Medieval life: the village 1950 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E5/102/1 History: The development of tools and apparatus:

the plough

1950 c.

E5/103/1 History: Historic records: the Great Exhibition of

1851

1950 c.

E5/104/1–12 History: Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

(parts 1–12)

1950 c.

E5/105/1–6 History: Social and economic history of Britain

(parts 1–6)

1950 c.

E5/106/1–6 History: Story of the co-operative movement (parts

1–6)

1950 c.

E5/107/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: history of

electricity (part 3)

1950 c.

E5/108/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: iron and steel:

contemporary

1950 c.


historical (part 2)

1950 c.

E5/110/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: plastics:

celluloid manufacture

1950 c.

E5/111/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: how pottery is

made

1950 c.

E5/112/1–3 Transport: History of road transport (parts 1–3) 1950 c.

E5/113/1–3 Transport: History of British railways (parts 1–3) 1950 c.

E5/114/1–5 Transport: History of sea transport (parts 1–5) 1950 c.

E5/115/1 Transport: British air routes: the Atlantic 1950 c.

E5/116/1,2 History: Trades unionism: historical (parts 1–2) 1950 c.

E5/117/1,2 History: Trades unionism: contemporary (parts

1–2)

1950 c.

E5/118/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: boot and shoe

making: contemporary

1950 c.

E5/119/1–4 Industry: Survey of British industry: coal mining

(parts 1–4)

1950 c.

E5/120/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: history of

electricity (part 1)

1950 c.

E5/121/1–4 Industry: Survey of British industry: gas industry

(parts 1–4)

1950 c.


historical (part 1)

1950 c.

E5/123/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: petroleum 1950 c.


B a c k t o t o p

E5/124/1,2 Industry: Survey of British industry: the

development of power stations (parts 1–2)

1950 c.

E5/125/1,2 Industry: Survey of British industry: water supply:

historical (parts 1–2)

1950 c.

E5/126/1 Industry: Survey of British industry: water supply

industry: contemporary

1950 c.

E5/127/1–4 Transport: History of aviation (parts 1–4) 1950 c.

E5/128/1 Europe’s children 1950 c.

E6 United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural

Organization (UNESCO)

E6/1–8 Seminars on workers’ education at

Château de la Brévière, 1952

E6/1/1–11 Preliminary committee papers.

Memoranda on Château de la Brévière.

G.D.H. Cole’s contract to direct seminar

1951 Oct 22 – 1952 Jul 16

E6/1/12–21 Programmes of events. Lists of participants 1952 May 1 – Aug c.

E6/1/22 Questionnaire on workers’ education n.d.

E6/2/1–23 Reports of study groups 1952 Jul 26 – Sep 10

E6/3/1–12 Reports of proceedings, recommendations 1952 Jul 28 – Dec 19

E6/4/1–15 Questionnaire, memoranda on workers’ education 1952 Feb – Jul

E6/5/1–10 Notes by G.D.H. Cole 1952 Jul – Aug

E6/6/1–3 Articles on conference in Fabriks Farbetaren, The

tutors’ bulletin of adult education, Red tape

1952 Oct – Nov

E6/6/4 Press cutting 1952 Sep 6

E6/7/1–125 Correspondence 1952 Jan 7 – Dec 23

E6/8/1,2 Photographs 1952 Jul – Aug c.

E6/9 Seminar on adult education at Château

de la Brévière, 8–15 August 1953

E6/9/1,2 Report 1953 Sep 17, 1954 Feb 8


B a c k t o t o p

E6/10 UNESCO general conferences: second

sessions

E6/10/1 Report of the Committee of Experts on Philosophy

and Humanistic Studies, Paris, 22–26 September

1947

1947 Oct 5

E6/10/2 Report to the Programme and Budget Commission

of the Working Party on Philosophy and Humanistic

Studies, 10–14 November 1947

1947 Nov 18

E6/11 Seminar on education for world

citizenship, 3–30 August 1952

E6/11/1 Materials for a book of basic documents on human

rights: memorandum by Andrew Martin

1952 Jul 18

E6/11/2–5 Proposed articles on education for covenant of

human rights: memoranda

1949 Mar – 1952 Jun 13

E6/12 Consultative Committee on Adult

Education

E6/12/1–29 Reports, circulars, committee papers,

correspondence, MS notes

1951 Oct 11 – 1956 Mar 19

E6/13 Consultative Committee on Youth Work

E6/13/1 Final report 1956 Jan 20

E6/13/2,3 Memoranda on system of associated youth

enterprises

1956 Feb 20–21

E6/14 International Confederation of Free

Trade Unions

E6/14/1–9 Education programme: circulars, memoranda 1952 Apr 17 – Jul 14

E6/15–20 General UNESCO correspondence

E6/15/1–45 Correspondence 1952 Sep 11 – 1953 Feb 10

E6/16/1–29 Correspondence 1953 Feb 18 – Apr 7

E6/17/1–37 Correspondence 1953 Apr 13 – Jun 15

E6/18/1–56 Correspondence 1953 Jun 12 – 1954 Feb 11

E6/19/1–44 Correspondence 1954 Jan 26 – Dec 21

E6/20/1–60 Correspondence 1954 Dec 20 – 1957 Jun 28


B a c k t o t o p

F

Government committees

The Economic Advisory Committee, of which Cole was a

member, was set up under the second Labour government to

advise the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald. During the

same period, Cole also gave evidence to the Ministry of

Health Departmental Committee on the Relief of the Casual

Poor and to the Royal Commission on Unemployment.

In June 1940 the Minister of Labour, Ernest Bevin,

commissioned Sir William Beveridge to prepare a survey of

available labour in Britain. Beveridge in turn entrusted the

task to Cole, who quickly established a network of

investigators across the country. The evidence collected by

them was used for a report by the Man-Power Requirements

Committee on the wartime labour situation. Later in the war,

Cole was persuaded by R.A. Butler to serve on the Committee

on Public Schools. Some correspondence between

R.H. Tawney and Cole, which was prompted by the

Committee’s work, can be found in the papers of the Nuffield

College Social Reconstruction Survey, file A2/286.

F1 Economic Advisory Council 66

F2 Man-Power Survey 66

F3 Man-Power Requirements Committee 71

F4 Public Schools Committee 72

F5 Other committees, government bodies 73


B a c k t o t o p

F1 Economic Advisory Council

F1/1–9 Committee on Economic Information

F1/1/1–34 Minutes of 28th, 33rd, 35th–38th, 39th (notice

only), 41st–43rd, 44th (notice only), 45th, 47th–

65th meetings

1933 Oct 24 – 1936 May 26

F1/2/1–18 Papers 1–4, 38, 42, 53, 57, 60, 64–70 1931 Sep 25 – 1934 Mar 22

F1/3/1–18 Papers 72–80, 81 (cover only), 83–87 1934 Jun 11 – Aug 10

F1/4/1–17 Papers 88–104 1934 Aug 17 – Oct 23

F1/5/1–15 Papers 105–113, 115–117, 119–120 1934 Nov 8 – 1935 Feb 20 c.

F1/6/1–10 Papers 121–124, 126–129 1935 Feb 28 – May

F1/7/1–12 Papers 130–134, 137–143 1935 May 14 – Dec 9

F1/8/1–9 Papers 144–152 1935 Dec – 1936 Feb 10

F1/9/1–14 Papers 153–155, 157, 158, 161, 165, 170, 172, 182,

189, 200, 209, 210

1936 May 8 – 1939 May 15

F1/10–12 Other Economic Advisory Council

material

F1/10/1 Committee on the Cotton Industry: report 1930 Jun 4

F1/11/1 Mission to Germany: report 1930 Oct 16

F1/12 Industrial survey of depressed areas

F1/12/1 Memorandum by the joint secretaries of the

Economic Advisory Council

1932 Jun 24

F1/12/2 Summary of industrial survey 1932 Jun 24

F2 Man-Power Survey

F2/1–33 Memoranda, circulars, correspondence [unless otherwise stated]

F2/1/1–15 Board of Trade 1940 Jun 6 – Jul 26

F2/2/1–11 Civil population: analysis of statistics [including

analysis of the population of Oxfordshire]

1940 Jul


B a c k t o t o p

F2/3/1–16 Contracts and sub-contracts [including

memorandum The controls and war finance by Ian

Bowen and G.D.N. Worswick]

1940 Jun – Oct

F2/4/1–9 Correspondence: analyses of correspondence

received by the Man-Power Survey

1940 Jul c.

F2/5/1–4 Divisional controllers: reports of conferences of

divisional controllers

1940 Jul 10 – Nov 20

F2/5/5–20 Divisional controllers: statistics from reports of

divisional controllers, list of divisions

1940 Aug c.

F2/6/1,2 Distributive trades 1940 Jul c.

F2/7/1–12 Efficiency in wartime [including Report on welfare

and health in relation to hours of work and output

in wartime by the British Association for Labour

Legislation]

1940 Jun – Sep

F2/8/1–5 Engineering industries [including statistical

analyses]

1940 Jun – Aug

F2/9/1–5 Factories: memoranda on location of factories and

use of smaller factories for war work

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/10/1–3 Industrial compulsion 1940 Jul

F2/11/1–23 Industrial registration 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/12/1–12 Labour requirements (supply departments) 1940 May – Jul

F2/13/1–17 Machine tools 1940 Jul

F2/14/1–6 Manpower and supplies 1940 May – Jul

F2/15/1–6 Man-Power Survey: memoranda on scope of survey 1940 Jun c.

F2/16/1–17 Ministry of Information [including surveys by the

National Institute of Economic and Social Research]

1940 Jul – Sep

F2/17/1–29 Ministry of Labour: circulars 1940 May – Oct

F2/18/1–6 Munitions 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/19/1–7 National registration 1940 Jul c.

F2/20/1–4 National service deferment 1940 Jul

F2/21/1–9 Night shifts: memoranda, extracts from regional

report

1940 Jul c.

F2/22/1–10 Non-essential labour 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/23/1–5 Refugees and aliens 1940 Jul

F2/24/1–5 Salvage: reports from towns in South Wales 1940 Jul c.


B a c k t o t o p

F2/25/1,2 Taking over establishments n.d.

F2/26/1–4 Training 1940 Aug

F2/27/1–39 Training: circulars 1940 Jun – Sep

F2/28/1–12 Training: divisional controllers 1940 May – Jul

F2/29/1–3 Training: extracts, reports 1940 Jul

F2/30/1–8 Training: numbers in training [including statistics

from government training centres]

1940 Aug – Sep

F2/31/1–3 Unemployment: analyses of the unemployed 1940 Jun – Aug

F2/32/1–6 War Cabinet: memoranda, official papers from the

offices of the War Cabinet

1940 May – Aug

F2/33/1–16 Youth labour service 1940 Jun – Jul

F2/34–39 Interim reports

F2/34/1–16 Guide to folders 1940 Sep c.

F2/35/1–30 Introductory memoranda, circulars to investigators 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/36/1–6 Interim reports 1–6: sub-contract policy, training for

war work, the problem of moving labour, wage

difficulties in the transfer of labour, labour supply

and demand, mines and quarries

1940 Jul – Oct

F2/37/1–6 Interim reports 7–12: conversion of plant, location

of industry, contract policy, dilution and women’s

employment, priority policy, training allowances

1940 Aug – Sep

F2/38/1–6 Interim reports 13–18: labour resources, idle

machinery and shifts, the distributive trades, defects

in machinery, land and agriculture, unemployment

in wartime

1940 Aug – Sep

F2/39/1–4 Interim reports 19–22: the structure of industry,

youth labour service, local surveys, wage policy and

civilian employment

1940 Aug – Sep

F2/39/5–12 Regional reports from Scotland, Northern division,

North-eastern division, North-western division,

London and the South East, Wales

1940 Aug

F2/40–51 Extracts from final reports

F2/40/1–31 Billeting, travelling to work 1940 Jul

F2/41/1–7 Birmingham 1940 Jun – Jul

F2/42/1–16 Contracts 1940 Jul


B a c k t o t o p

F2/43/1–16 Factories: use of existing accommodation 1940 Jul

F2/44/1–3 Government factories 1940 Jul

F2/45/1–14 Labour shortages 1940 Jun – Jul

F2/46/1–18 Mobility of labour 1940 Jun – Jul

F2/47/1–29 Release from non-essential trades 1940 Jun – Jul

F2/48/1–18 Trades union grievances 1940 Jul

F2/49/1–23 Training: reports from investigators 1940 Jul

F2/50/1–48 Various extracts from local reports 1940 Jul

F2/51/1–4 Wages 1940 Jul

F2/52–62 Local man-power surveys

F2/52/1–8 Interim reports by John Roberts: reports 1–8 1940 Jul

F2/53/1 Interviews [including correspondence and reports] 1940 Jul

F2/53/2 Final report by John Roberts [including reports by

H.D. Hughes and R.S.R. Fitter]

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/53/3 Final report by Margaret Cole 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/54/1,2 Training [rough material]: report on technical

institutes, report on training in London

1940 Jul

F2/55/1–6 South London: final reports, correspondence,

memoranda from Bermondsey, Borough, Brixton,

Bromley, Deptford and Greenwich, Lewisham

1940 Jul

F2/56/1–5 East London: final reports, correspondence,

memoranda from Finsbury, Hackney, Poplar,

Stepney, West Ham

1940 Jul

F2/57/1–5 North London: final reports, correspondence, notes

from Edgware Road, Hornsey, Islington, St Pancras,

Southgate

1940 Jul

F2/58/1–3 West London: final reports, interviews,

correspondence from Chelsea, Fulham,

Shepherd’s Bush

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/59/1–3 West Greater London: final reports from Barnet,

Hayes, Hendon

1940 Jul

F2/60/1 Southern division (Oxford area): final report,

supplementary reports, correspondence

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/60/2 Southern division (Aylesbury): final report [lacking

pages 8–11], correspondence

1940 Jul – Aug


B a c k t o t o p

F2/60/3 Southern division (Reading district): final report,

supplementary reports, correspondence

1940 Jul

F2/60/4 Southern division (Slough district): final report,

correspondence

1940 Jul – Sep

F2/61/1–8 Cardiff district: final reports from Cardiff, Merthyr

Tydfil, Pontypridd, Rhondda, Newport, Pontypool

and Cwmbran, Monmouthshire, supplementary

report

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/61/9–16 Cardiff district: reports on coal trade, older

unemployed men, women workers, juvenile

workers, alien labour, technical colleges, empty

buildings; correspondence

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/61/17–43 Cardiff district: notes of interviews, questionnaires

with replies

1940 Jun – Jul

F2/61/44–63 Cardiff district: notes of interviews, questionnaires

with replies

1940 Jul

F2/61/64–75 Cardiff district: notes of interviews 1940 Jul

F2/61/76–93 Cardiff district: notes of interviews, correspondence 1940 Jul



F2/62/1–7 Final report by Sir William Beveridge:

printed proof,

typescript drafts, MS list of appendices,

correspondence

1940 Sep 30

1940 Sep

1940 Aug 10 – Oct 14

F2/63–71 Correspondence of the Man-Power

Survey

F2/63/1–127 Adam – Cumner 1940 Jun – Aug

F2/64/1–120 Daniel – Gunn 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/65/1–86 Hamilton – Institution of British Agricultural

Engineers

1940 Jul – Aug

F2/66/1–81 Jack – Lloyd-Dodd 1940 Jul – Sep

F2/67/1–64 McPherson – Moseley 1940 Jul – Aug

F2/68/1–61 Nash – Pringle 1940 Jul – Sep

F2/69/1–89 Rackham – Rowse 1940 Jun – Sep

F2/70/1–62 Schofield – Swindett? 1940 Jun – Sep

F2/71/1–98 Taylor – Young 1940 Jul – Sep


B a c k t o t o p

F2/72–76 Other Man-Power Survey material

F2/72/1–11 Notes by G.D.H. Cole, Margaret Cole 1940 Aug c.

F2/73/1–28 Unsuccessful applications for jobs 1940 Jul

F2/74/1–20 Statistical summaries of the position at government

training centres

1940 Sep – 1941 Jan


training centres, circulars

1941 Jan – Dec


training centres

1941 Dec – 1943 Feb

F3 Man-Power Requirements

Committee and associated

material

F3/1–5 Man-Power Requirements Committee

F3/1/1–6 Agendas 1940 Aug 29, Sep 10, 26,

Dec 31, 1941 Jan 7, 14

F3/2/1–11 Minutes 1940 Aug 29 – 1941 Jan 7

F3/3/1–19 Memoranda, reports 1940 Aug 28 – Nov 21

F3/4/1–10 Memoranda, reports [including memorandum on

manpower by G.D.H. Cole: MS draft]

1940 Dec 4 – 1941 Jan 13

F3/5/1 Services Requirements Sub-committee: minutes 1940 Dec 19

F3/6 War Cabinet Production Council

F3/6/1,2 Conclusions of Production Council, with

memorandum by Ernest Bevin

1940 Aug 14

F3/6/3–5 Memorandum on machine tool survey,

memorandum on woodworking machinery survey,

statistical return on woodworking machines

1940 Sep 1 – Nov 6

F3/6/6,7 London and South Eastern Area Board: circular,

notes on district clearing centres

1940 Sep

F3/6/8 Diagram of group organisation for national war

production

1940 Oct 1

F3/7 War Cabinet Sub-committee on the

Schedule of Reserved Occupations

F3/7/1–4 Requests for waiving of the schedule of reserved

occupations

1941 Jan 2–3


B a c k t o t o p

F3/8 Ministry of Agriculture (Man Power

Division)

F3/8/1 Memorandum on the Man-Power Requirements

Committee

1940 Dec 6

F4 Public Schools Committee

F4/1/1–9 Agendas 1942 Jul 28 – 1943 May 19

F4/2/1–8 Minutes 1942 Jul 28 – 1943 Apr 21

F4/3/1–10 Committee papers 1–8 1942 Jul 8 – 1943 Apr

F4/4/1–23 Committee papers 9–10B, 11A–15, 16B–18,

20–23, 25–30

1942 Dec – 1943 Jan 16

F4/5/1–22 Committee papers 32–52 1943 Jan – Apr

F4/6 Interim report on abolition of tuition fees

F4/6/1–4 Report, with circular 1943 May 14

F4/6/5 Memorandum by the Bishop of London [Geoffrey

Fisher]

1943 May c.

F4/6/6–14 Correspondence 1943 Mar 2–29

F4/7–8 Sub-committee on abolition of tuition fees

F4/7/1–6 Minutes 1942 Dec 3 – 1943 Feb 23

F4/8/1–37 Committee papers 1–7, 9–25, 27–36, 38, 41 1942 Nov – 1943 Feb 19

F4/9–12 Other Public Schools Committee

material

F4/9/1–28 Correspondence 1942 Jun 25 – 1943 May 20

F4/10/1 The problem of the public schools: proof of article

by R.H. Tawney

1942 Jan c.

F4/10/2 Plans for an educated democracy: pamphlet by

John Thomas

1942

F4/11/1–14 Press cuttings 1942 Jul – 1943 Sep 3

F4/12/1–3 Seating plan for committee, expenses claim form,

list of committee members and papers submitted

1942 Jul c.

F4/12/4 Financial questionnaire drawn up by R. Birley 1943 May 14

F4/12/5 Anthology of quotations about public schools

compiled by R.A. Butler

1942 c.


B a c k t o t o p

F5 Other committees, government

bodies

F5/1 War Cabinet Committee on Women in

Industry

F5/1/1 Memorandum 73: evidence given by G.D.H. Cole:

mimeograph [photocopy and transcript]

1918 Oct 18

F5/1/2 Memorandum 52: summary of points made by

G.D.H. Cole: mimeograph [photocopy and

transcript]

1918 Oct

F5/2 Departmental Committee on the Relief

of the Casual Poor (Ministry of Health)

F5/2/1,2 Memoranda by G.D.H. Cole on a national labour

corps

1930 Jan 27

F5/2/3 Evidence given by G.D.H. Cole 1930 Feb 18

F5/3 Royal Commission on Unemployment

F5/3/1 Memorandum of evidence submitted by

G.D.H. Cole

1931 Mar

F5/4 High Wages Committee

F5/4/1 The possibilities of international wage regulation:

memorandum by G.D.H. Cole

n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

G

Bibliographical and other papers

H.P. Smith, an old guild socialist colleague of G.D.H. Cole,

began a bibliography of the latter’s writings but he had not

completed this by the time of his death in 1967.

Cole compiled notes on a number of labour and radical

figures. After his death these were transferred to the

University of Hull where they formed the basis of the

Dictionary of labour biography, the first volume of which was

published in 1972.

The rest of this section demonstrates Cole’s interest in

radicalism, ‘pictorial statistics’, and a range of other socio-

political topics.

G1 Bibliographies of G.D.H. Cole’s works 75

G2 Bibliographies and biographies by

G.D.H. Cole

75

G3 Nineteenth-century radical material

collected by G.D.H. Cole

76

G4 Notes 78

G5 Other papers 80


B a c k t o t o p

G1 Bibliographies of G.D.H. Cole’s

works

G1/1 List of G.D.H. Cole’s published works

1910–1951

G1/1/1 MS notebook with entries by G.D.H. Cole 1952 c.

G1/2 Lists of Cole’s works

G1/2/1–7 Lists of Cole’s pamphlets and articles: MS entries

by G.D.H. Cole

1916 c. – 1918 c.

G1/2/8 Ealing Public Library: provisional list of works by

G.D.H. Cole in the Library’s special collection

n.d.

G1/3–11 MS bibliography of G.D.H. Cole’s works

by H.P. Smith [unfinished]

G1/3/1–21 Bibliographical slips for works 1906–1923 1965 c.

G1/4/1 Bibliographical entries for works 1906–1919 1965 c.





G1/9/1 MS notebook with list of works 1913–1952 1965 c.

G1/10/1–5 Notes by H.P. Smith 1966 c.

G1/11/1–15 Correspondence 1963 Nov 29 – 1966 Dec 16

G2 Bibliographies and biographies by

G.D.H. Cole

G2/1/1,2 Bibliography of co-operative history n.d.

G2/2/1 Index to radical periodicals 1790–[1860]:

MS notebook

n.d.

G2/2/2 A list of Books concerning British Working-class

Movements since 1850, taken from Journal of Adult

Education

1928 Apr


B a c k t o t o p

G2/3 Labour and radical biography

G2/3/1,2 Incomplete card catalogue [in two parts]:

MS entries A – H

n.d.

G2/4–13 Labour and radical biographical index [all in hard-backed folders]

G2/4/1 Entries A – H: typescript 1950

G2/5/1 Entries I – S: typescript 1950

G2/6/1 Entries T – Z: typescript 1950

G2/7/1 Appendix of names added after the list had been

completed: typescript

1951

G2/8/1 Entries A – F: typescript 1950 Jul

G2/9/1 Entries G – L: typescript 1950 Jul

G2/10/1 Entries M – S: typescript 1950 Jul

G2/11/1 Entries T – Z: typescript 1950 Jul

G2/12/1 Appendix of names added after the list was

completed in July 1950

1950

G2/13/1–9 Notes n.d.

G2/13/10–12 Correspondence 1940 Jan 12 – Feb 1

G3 Nineteenth-century radical

material collected by G.D.H. Cole

G3/1 Grand Lodge of the United Operative

Tailors of London

G3/1/1 Abstract of proceedings of a special meeting of

trades’ union delegates February 1834: typed

transcript

1834 Feb (1953)

G3/1/2,3 Correspondence 1953 Mar 17–20

G3/2 Letters on associated labour by ‘Senex’

G3/2/1 Letters printed in the Pioneer and trades’ union

gazette March–June 1834: typed transcript

1834 (1950 c.)

G3/3 Labour Reform League

G3/3/1 Excerpts from reform pamphlets in the George

Howell collection: typed transcript

1851 – 1884 (1940 c.)


B a c k t o t o p

G3/3/2 List of Labour Reform League pamphlets: typed

transcript

1868 – 1875 (1940 c.)

G3/3/3 Notes 1940 c.

G3/3/4,5 Correspondence 1939 Oct 18, 1940 Mar 6

G3/4 Conference of trades delegates at

Sheffield, June 1866

G3/4/1 Reports from the Sheffield and Rotherham

independent: typed transcript

1866 Jun (1940 c.)

G3/5 Labour Electoral Association, 1885–

1895

G3/5/1,2 Excerpts from reports of the Trades Union Congress

1885–1895 and from an untitled pamphlet: typed

transcript, with covering letter from Bernice Holt

Smith to G.D.H. Cole

1885 – 1895 (1940)

G3/5/3,4 The Labour Party’s forerunner: memorandum by

A. Heald on the Labour Electoral Association, with

covering letter from Jim Middleton to G.D.H. Cole

n.d., 1940 Aug 1

G3/5/5,6 Notes 1940 c.

G3/6 Letters, 1893–1895

G3/6/1–3 Letter from William Morris to [?] Tochatti: typed

transcript, with covering letter from A. Willshire to

G.D.H. Cole

1893 Dec 12 (1933 Jan)

G3/6/4 Letter from Thomas Blandford to Mr Sharman 1895 Oct 4

G3/6/5 Letter from Aneurin Williams to Mr Sharman with

reply from Sharman’s brother

1895

G3/7 Friendly Society of Iron Moulders

G3/7/1 From James Entwhistle to Arthur Henderson:

memorandum covering history of the Friendly

Society of Iron Moulders 1809–1909

n.d.

G3/8 Other nineteenth-century radical

material

G3/8/1,2 Article on Stuart Uttley by W.H.G. Armytage, with

corrrespondence

1948 Jun 26 – Jul 5


B a c k t o t o p

G3/8/3 Articles and notes on various nineteenth-century

radical sources by M.L. Pearl, with covering letter

from M.L. Pearl to G.D.H. Cole

1949 Jan 16, n.d.

G3/8/4 Notes by G.D.H. Cole from an essay by William

Marwick on Alexander Campbell

n.d.

G3/8/5 Fragment of MS text by G.D.H. Cole on Thomas

Attwood

n.d.

G3/8/6 Part of biography of Major John Cartwright:

typescript

n.d.

G4 Notes [charts, tables of figures, notes

unless otherwise indicated]

G4/1/1–9 Maps n.d.

G4/2/1–13 Date charts n.d.

G4/3/1–6 Census data n.d.

G4/4/1–5 Occupations of population n.d.



G4/7/1–5 Towns: notes,

with letter from G.D.H. Cole to Keir

n.d.

1938 May 16

G4/8/1–19 Europe n.d.

G4/9/1–20 Population of the United Kingdom n.d.

G4/10/1–11 Worldwide population n.d.

G4/11/1–7 London n.d.

G4/12/1–4 Seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century British

population

n.d.

G4/13/1–3 Eighteenth-century tours: notes on travels of Young,

Pococke, Defoe and Chamberlayne

n.d.

G4/14/1–13 Production n.d.

G4/15/1–11 Coal, iron, steel: notes,

with letter

n.d.

1939 Jan 9

G4/16/1–3 Textile industries and registered companies n.d.

G4/17/1–21 Agriculture and food n.d.

G4/18/1–6 Railways n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

G4/19/1–11 Transport, shipping, shipbuilding: notes,

letter from H.E. Caustin to G.D.H. Cole,

press cuttings

n.d.

1939 Jun 8

1936 Nov 6, 1938 Jul 20

G4/20/1–17 Transport: notes,

press cuttings

n.d.

1936 Mar – 1938 Aug

G4/21/1–11 Foreign trade n.d.

G4/22/1–16 Foreign trade: charts, tables,

press cuttings

n.d.

1927 Jan 27 – Feb 4

G4/23/1–35 Employment, unemployment n.d.

G4/24/1–15 National income and profits:

notes, tables of figures,

press cuttings

n.d.

1939 c.

G4/25/1–14 Public finance n.d.

G4/26/1–29 Working-class movements:

figures, graphs, diagrams, press cutting

n.d.

G4/27/1–9 Class structure n.d.

G4/28/1–20 Housing and building: tables, charts,

correspondence

n.d.

1945 Mar 2–9

G4/29/1–4 Health: accidents and social services n.d.

G4/30/1–3 Education n.d.

G4/31/1 Politics: polling figures from the 1946 election in

the Soviet Union with annotations by G.D.H. Cole

1946 Feb

G4/32/1–13 Local government: maps, figures n.d.

G4/33 Building societies

G4/33/1 Notes, figures n.d.

G4/33/2 Statistical summary 1928–1938 1939 Apr 28

G4/33/3 Building Societies Association: address of the

chairman at the annual conference

1939 May 31

G4/33/4 Investment in building societies in peace and war:

pamphlet by R. Bruce Wycherley

1939 Jan 17

G4/34/1–3 Foreign countries (except United States):

tables of figures,

letter from G.D.H. Cole to Dick [?]

1938 c. – 1944 c.

1937 Dec 13

G4/35/1–13 United States: notes, charts, tables of figures,

News-bulletin,

National City Bank of New York newsletter

n.d.

1930 Nov 22, 1931 Jan 5, Dec

23

1930 Jul

G4/36/1–9 Notes on economics n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

G4/37/1–15 Notes on general elections n.d.

G4/38/1–3 Notes on the radicals and parliamentary reform n.d.

G4/39/1–3 Notes on the Independent Labour Party n.d.

G4/40/1 Notes for Politics for economists n.d.

G5 Other papers

G5/1–2 First World War papers

G5/1/1 Report on the increased employment of women

during the war

1916 c.

G5/1/2,3 National Council Against Conscription: circulars 1916 Jan 22, n.d.

G5/1/4 British war-time reports of work as related to

output and fatigue: typescript memorandum

1917 Nov

G5/2/1,2 Amalgamated Society of Engineers: circular,

questionnaire

1917 Dec

G5/2/3,4 Federation of British Industries: Reconstruction

after the War: report, with introductory circular

1917 Dec 6, 1918 Jan 3

G5/2/5 Employers’ Parliamentary Council: memorandum

on Trades Board Bill

1918

G5/3 Memoranda on tariffs

G5/3/1 Australian preferential tariff and its effect on

British trade: typescript memorandum

1923 c.

G5/3/2 Preference proposals of the British Government at

the Imperial Economic Conference: typescript

memorandum

1932(?)

G5/4 Papers given to G.D.H. Cole by

Margaret Llewelyn Davies

G5/4/1,2 Essay on her childhood by (?) Margaret Llewelyn

Davies, with notes

1931 c.

G5/4/3 Letter from F.H. Smith to Margaret Llewelyn

Davies

1931 Jan 22

G5/5 Letter of introduction

G5/5/1 Letter of introduction for G.D.H. Cole by Arthur

Henderson

1931 Mar 31


B a c k t o t o p

G5/6 International Transport Workers’

Federation

G5/6/1 The War, the I.T.F. and the future: memorandum by

M. Zwalf

1942 Feb

G5/6/2 A socialist commonwealth of Europe: article by

M. Zwalf

1942 Mar

G5/6/3 International Transport Workers’ Federation:

press report

1942 May 26

G5/7–9 Miscellaneous memoranda

G5/7/1 Heads of proposals for the constitution of a

national building corporation by G.D.H. Cole

1944 c.

G5/7/2–4 Insurance: memorandum by D. Paterson, with

correspondence

1949 Oct 3–10

G5/7/5 Proposition for the Federal Congress by the Trade

Unions Zonal Secretariat (British zone of occupied

Germany)

1947 Apr 11

G5/8/1,2 New Gezira Tenants’ Association: memorandum,

proposed constitution

1952 Mar 11

G5/9/1–4 Daily Herald: analysis: typescript memorandum by

Raymond Postgate

1924 c.

G5/10 Notes by G.N. Clark

G5/10/1–11 Lists of Italian publications 1914 c.

G5/10/12,13 Letters [written in Italian] 1914 Feb

G5/10/14 Notes on Italian politics at the turn of the century n.d.


B a c k t o t o p

Supplementary box 01 : additional

material

01/1 How reliable are social surveys? by J. Goldmann,

article in Discovery

1945 Feb

01/2 The sad fate of Ruskin College by Stephen Regan,

article in Oxford magazine

1992 Jan

01/3 Cole, George Douglas Howard (1889–1959) by

Asa Briggs, entry in Dictionary of national

biography, 1951–1960

1971

01/4 Cole, George Douglas Howard, entry in Who was

who, 1951–1960

1961


B a c k t o t o p

Supplementary box 02: fragile papers withdrawn from the

main sequence - please hand out the copies for consultation

A1/24/16 A photocopy (1995) has been inserted in the main sequence.

A1/26/1 A photocopy (1995) has been inserted in the main sequence.

D2/9/1,2 Photocopies (1995) have been inserted in the main sequence. The originals are framed

and hanging in the Librarian’s room.

D3/4/1 A photocopy (1995) has been inserted in the main sequence.

F5/1/1 A word-processed transcript (1995) and a photocopy (1995) have been inserted in the

main sequence.

F5/1/2 A word-processed transcript (1995) and a photocopy (1995) have been inserted in the

main sequence.


B a c k t o t o p

Lists

1 Original list: original version 1960

2 Original list: photocopy (1985) 1960

3 Original list: supporting lists 1960

4 New list: spare copy 1994

5 New list: working draft 1994

Conspectus

The conspectus, on pages 85–101, is for guidance only and

should not be regarded as giving accurate cross references. It

is best used in conjunction with the previous list, compiled in

1960 (c.). The old reference numbers were based on shelf

locations in the Library basement, probably Basement 4

formerly known as Basement 3. The second element refers to

the bay and the third refers to the shelf. Within each shelf,

boxes were not given unique numbers and the numbering of

files was not carried out consistently. It is therefore essential

to look at both the ‘old reference number’ and the ‘description

of record’ to identify old references. To facilitate this, the

conspectus also gives the relevant page numbers from the

1960 list.


Old page

number

Old reference Description of record New reference

B a c k t o t o p

1 B3/2/D file 1 Teaching notes for Common Ground E5/4–7

1 B3/2/D file 2 — ditto — E5/4–7,10,11

1 B3/2/D file 3 — ditto — E5/4–7

1 B3/2/D file 4 — ditto — E5/8



1 B3/2/D file 7 — ditto — E5/4–7

1 B3/3/B Common Ground film strips E5/86–128

1 B3/3/B Common Ground catalogues E5/1–3

1 B3/3/B Pocket diaries B3/1

1 B3/3/B Common Ground photographic prints E5/50–67

1 B3/3/C Labour and radical biographical index G2/3–13

1 B3/3/C Common Ground photographic prints E5/73–76,

78–84

1 B3/3/D — ditto — E5/68–72,77

1 B3/3/D Common Ground teaching notes E5/12–49

1 B3/3/D file 1 Notes and articles on economics A1/10, G4/36

1 B3/3/D file 2 — ditto — A1/10, G4/36

1 B3/3/D file 3 — ditto — A2/27

1 B3/3/D file 4 — ditto — A1/10, A2/29




1 B3/3/D file 8 — ditto — E1/10


1 B3/3/D file 10 — ditto — E1/4

1 B3/3/D file 11 — ditto — E1/11


Old page

number


B a c k t o t o p

1 B3/3/D file 12 — ditto — E1/3

1 B3/3/D file 13 — ditto — A2/62

1 B3/3/D file 14 — ditto — E1/9

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 1 Articles on labour history A1/53

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 2 Articles on socialism A1/59–62

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 3 Articles on capitalism A1/39,40

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 4 Articles on guild socialism A1/46–52

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 5 Articles on trade unions A1/64–67

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 6 Articles on the Labour Party A1/54–56

2 B3/3/E box 1 file 7 Articles on class structure A1/41

2 B3/3/E box 1 files 8–10 [Articles on socialisation, compensation] MISSING

(1960 list)

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 11 Articles on the Soviet Union A1/75

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 12 Articles on the People’s front A1/58

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 13 Articles on the USA A1/75

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 14 Articles on China A1/75

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 15 Articles on William Morris A1/5

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 16 Biographical articles A1/1,2

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 17 Articles on Marx A1/4

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 18 Articles on the causes of war A1/68

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 19 Articles on war preparation A1/70

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 20 Articles on war economics A1/69

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 21 Articles on employment A1/11

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 22 Articles on unemployment insurance A1/11,21

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 23 Articles on unemployment A1/21

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 24 Articles on wages A1/22

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 25 Articles on social security A1/17

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 26 Articles on reconstruction A1/71,72


Old page

number


B a c k t o t o p

2 B3/3/E box 2 file 27 Articles on reconstruction A1/71

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 28 Articles on economic policy A1/8–10

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 29 Articles on planning A1/15

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 30 Articles on trade policy A1/19

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 31 Articles on transport A1/20

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 32 Articles on coal and steel A1/7

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 33 Articles on money A1/12,13

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 34 Articles on money A1/12,13

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 35 Articles on bank nationalisation A1/14

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 36 Propositions about money A1/12,13

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 37 Unpublished articles on economics A1/74

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 38 [Articles on world economic outlook] MISSING

(1960 list)

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 39 Articles on rationalisation A1/16

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 40 Articles on state intervention A1/18

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 41 Articles on political theory A1/34,35

2 B3/3/E box 3 file 42 Articles on politics and literature A1/23

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 43 Articles on local government A1/32

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 44 Articles on bureaucracy A1/33

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 45 B.B.C. freedom debate A1/36–38

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 46 Cole versus St John Ervine: articles A1/36

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 47 Prefaces to books A2/1

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 48 Articles on the Oxford by-election A1/55

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 49 Articles on detective stories A1/73

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 50 The great big giant ... A1/44

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 51 Articles on universities A1/23

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 52 Articles on academic freedom A1/36–38

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 53 Articles on working-class education A1/24


Old page

number


B a c k t o t o p

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 54 Articles on education A1/23

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 55 Army broadcasts A1/25

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 56 Everyman articles A1/26

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 57 Modern Britain in the making: articles A1/27

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 58 King’s Norton articles A1/43

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 59 Articles on freedom A1/36–38

2 B3/3/E box 4 file 60 Clean up Britain: articles A1/21

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 61 [New leader articles] MISSING

(1960 list)

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 62 Articles on the Dublin strike 1913 A1/64

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 63 Articles on India A1/75

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 64 Articles for Encyclopaedia Britannica A1/61

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 65 Articles for other encyclopaedias A1/35

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 66 Review articles A1/28–31

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 67 Review articles A1/28–31,70

2 B3/3/E box 5 files 68–70 [Notes for books] MISSING

(1960 list)

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 71 Notes for various books A2/61,63

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 72 Guide through world chaos: notes A2/26–28

2 B3/3/E box 5 file 73 (ed.) Rousseau Le contrat social: notes A2/3,4

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 74 Guide to modern politics: notes A2/30

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 75 What everyone needs to know about money:

notes

A2/29

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 76 “Britain’s economic policies and world affairs”

(from Europe into the abyss) by Cole: notes

A1/77

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 77 Encyclopaedia of the social sciences:

correspondence

C/3

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 78 A short history of the British working-class

movement: notes

A2/25

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 79 The payment of wages: notes A2/8

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 80 The world of labour: notes A2/2


Old page

number


B a c k t o t o p

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 81 Self-government in industry: notes A2/6

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 82 Labour in wartime: notes A2/5

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 83 Introduction to trade unionism: notes A2/9

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 84 Future of local government: notes A2/11

2 B3/3/E box 6 file 85 [Notes for books] MISSING

(1960 list)

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 86 [Carnegie studies] Trade unions and munitions:

notes

A2/13

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 87 [Guild socialism re-stated] MISSING

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 88 Chaos and order in industry: notes A2/10

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 89 Money: its present and future: notes A2/50

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 90 Draft for a book on unemployment: notes A2/63

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 91 Notes on William Morris A1/5, B2/13

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 92 Seminar papers on philosophy B2/16,17

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 93 Papers on Millet, Peacock and the Commune of

Paris

B2/14,15,18

3 B3/3/F box 7A file 94 Various papers B2/19,20

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 95 [Unknown] MISSING

(1960 list)

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 96 Easton Lodge: correspondence and memoranda E4/1–3

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 97 Notes on workers’ control D3/22–24

3 B3/3/F box 7B files 98–100 [LRD memoranda, socialisation, local surveys] MISSING

(1960 list)

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 101 Lectures E1/1

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 102 — ditto — E1/5

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 103 — ditto — E1/12

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 104 [Lectures] MISSING

(1960 list)

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 105 Lectures E1/2

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 106 Tutorial class notes E2/2


Old page

number


B a c k t o t o p

3 B3/3/F box 7B files 107,108 [Economic Advisory Council, unknown] MISSING

(1960 list)

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 109 Interviews B4/1

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 110 University of London syllabuses E2/1

3 B3/3/F box 7B file 111 Articles on J.A. Hobson A1/1

3 B3/3/F box 8 file 1 Articles A1/19,52,62

B2/16

3 B3/3/F box 8 file 2 Articles on John Burns A2/68

3 B3/3/F box 8 file 3 Articles A1/19,47

3 B3/3/F box 8 file 4 Articles A1/2,8,15,

16,23,24,

36–38,59–62

4 B3/3/F box 8 file 5 MS and typescript oddments A1/34

4 B3/3/F box 8 file 6 Owen notes A2/20

4 B3/3/F box 1 file 1–5 University lectures E3/1–7

4 B3/3/F box 1 file 6 — ditto — E3/9





4 B3/3/F box 2 file 2 — ditto — E3/11–13


4 B3/3/F box 5 file 2 — ditto — [E1/8?]


4 B3/3/F box 5 file 4 — ditto — E3/19,20







Old page

number


B a c k t o t o p

4 B3/3/F box 1 file 1 Man-Power Survey 1940 F2/35

4 B3/3/F box 1 file 2 — ditto — F2/36




4 B3/3/F box 1 file 6 — ditto — F2/36–39

4 B3/3/F box 2 file A — ditto — F2/34

4 B3/3/F box 2 file A1 [Unknown Man-Power Survey 1940?] MISSING

(1960 list)

4 B3/3/F box 2 file A2 Man-Power Survey 1940 F2/33

4 B3/3/F box 2 file A3 — ditto — F2/11

4 B3/3/F box 2 file A4 — ditto — F2/10,18




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(1960 list)








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4 B3/3/F box 2 file A21 — ditto — F2/15,22

4 B3/3/F box 2 file A22 — ditto — F2/3,11,22,

26





(1960 list)




(1960 list)


5 B3/3/F box 2 file A31 — ditto — F2/49?

5 B3/3/F box 3 file B1 — ditto — F2/26





5 B3/3/F box 3 file C1 — ditto — F2/47








5 B3/3/F box 3 file C9 — ditto — F2/49,50


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5 B3/3/F box 3 file D1 — ditto — F2/34?

5 B3/3/F box 3 file D2 — ditto — F2/22?,44?

5 B3/4/B box 4 file 1 — ditto — F2/52



5 B3/4/B box 4 file 4 — ditto — F2/62?



5 B3/4/B box 5 file 32b — ditto — F2/54






5 B3/4/B box 1 files 1–6 Attempts at general union A2/53–57

5 B3/4/B box 1 files 1–3 British trades unionism today A2/36–45

6 B3/4/B box 1 Radical movements, Labour representation G3/1–8

G4/38

A1/1,2

6 B3/4/B box 1 files 1–5 Courtauld inquiry To NCSRS

papers

6 B3/4/C box 1 Departmental Committee on the Relief of the

Casual Poor

Defoe: MS drafts and notes

F5/2

A2/21

6 B3/4/C box 1 files 1–3 Public Schools Committee F4

6 B3/4/C boxes 1–4 Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey To NCSRS

papers

7 B3/4/D boxes 1,2

(see also B3/4/E)

London County Council Education Committee MSS MIC

D2/1–12


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7–9 B3/4/D boxes 1–5 Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey

correspondence, except:

To NCSRS

papers

8 B3/4/D box 4 file 5 Correspondence with the National Peace

Council

C/5

9 B3/4/D box 5 file 19 Correspondence with the Social Security

League

D6/3

9 B3/4/D box 5 file 23 Correspondence with Herbert Sultan C/7

9 B3/4/D box 5 file 31 Correspondence with F.H. Llewellyn Thomas E3/29

10 B3/4/E boxes 6,7 Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey

correspondence

To NCSRS

papers

10 B3/4/E boxes 3,4

(see also (B3/4/D)

London County Council Education Committee MSS MIC

D2/1–12

10 B3/4/E files 1–13,15,17–30 Correspondence A – K [mostly 1940s], except: To NCSRS

papers

10 B3/4/E file 14 Correspondence with The fortnightly A1/65,67

10 B3/4/E file 16 Correspondence with D.H. Frankel C/3

11 B3/4/F files 31–43, [44?], 45–

63

Correspondence L – Z [mostly 1940s] To NCSRS

papers

11 B3/4/F box 1 file 1 UNESCO material E6/1–8

11 B3/4/F box 1 file 2,3 — ditto — E6/11–19

11 B3/4/F box 1 file 4 — ditto — E6/12,13

11 B3/4/F box 2 file 1 — ditto — E6/1–8


12 B3/4/F boxes 1–4 Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey To NCSRS

papers

12 B3/5/B box 1 files 1–3 Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey:

correspondence about education

To NCSRS

papers

12–14 B3/5/B boxes 1–5 Nuffield College social reconstruction survey

correspondence, except:

To NCSRS

papers

13 B3/5/B box 1 file 28 Correspondence with Joan Blomfield D2/7

13 B3/5/B box 2 file 6 Correspondence with F.L. Carsten C/1

13 B3/5/B box 2 file 16 Correspondence with the Cobbett Publishing

Company

A2/49


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13 B3/5/B box 2 file 18 Correspondence with the College of the Sea C/2

13 B3/5/B box 2 file 19 Correspondence with G. Cooper C/2

13 B3/5/B box 3 file 3 Correspondence with E. Salter Davies C/6

14 B3/5/B box 5 file 13 Correspondence with Steven Smith E3/29

14 B3/5/B box 5 file 14 Correspondence with the Social Security

League

D6/4

14 B3/5/B box 5 file 23 Correspondence with F.H. Llewellyn Thomas E3/29

14 B3/5/B <box 6> The striker stricken MS of satirical songs A3/1–3

14 B3/5/B box 1 file 1 Guild Socialism D3/3

14 B3/5/B box 1 file 2 — ditto — D3/14


14 B3/5/B box 1 file 4 — ditto — A1/49–51




14 B3/5/B box 1 file 8 — ditto — A1/52


14 B3/5/B box 1 file 10 — ditto — D3/11,12 [?]



14 B3/5/B box 1 file 13,14 — ditto — D3/1,2,18


14 B3/5/B box 1 file 16 — ditto — D3/5,22,23


14 B3/5/C box 1 file 1 Economic Advisory Council papers F1/11

14 B3/5/C box 1 file 2 — ditto — F1/10

14 B3/5/C box 1 papers 3–33 — ditto — F1/1

14 B3/5/C box 2 — ditto — F1/2–5


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15 B3/5/C box 3 — ditto — F1/6–9,12

15 B3/5/C boxes 1–4 Review of the foreign press ?

15 B3/5/D files 1–3 Six lectures: Auguste Comte; La déclaration;

Communist manifesto

E3/26

15 B3/5/D files 4–6 Six lectures: James Harrington; Turgot and

Condorcet; The school in social theory

E3/27

15 B3/5/D Notes on Greek colonisation B2/9

15 B3/5/D Bibliography of co-operative history G2/1

15 B3/5/D Index to radical periodicals G2/2

15–16 B3/5/D boxes 1–3 Ministry of Economic Warfare ?

16–17 B3/5/D books 1–3 Lecture notebooks B2/1–3

17 B3/5/D books 4–8 — ditto — B2/4–8

17 B3/5/D file People’s Front D5

17 B3/5/E box 1 file A [Fabian Society: Buscot conferences] D1/19,20

17 B3/5/E box 1 file B — ditto — D1/21–23

17 B3/5/E box 1 file C — ditto — D1/24–26

17A B3/5/E box 1 file D — ditto — D1/19–26

17B B3/5/E box 1 files E,F — ditto — D1/14–19

17 B3/5/E box 2 file 1 [Fabian Society] D1/1

17 B3/5/E box 2 file 2 — ditto — D1/28


17 B3/5/E box 2 file 4 — ditto — A1/45


17 B3/5/E box 2 file 6 — ditto — D1/2,3

17 B3/5/E box 2 file 7 — ditto — D1/5–7



17C B3/5/E box 3 file 1 [Fabian Society] Barrow House papers D1/35–37

17D B3/5/E box 3 file 2 — ditto — D1/11–13


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17 B3/5/E box 3 file 3 Fabian Research Department monthly circulars D1/33

17–18 B3/5/E box 3 file 4–6 [Fabian Society] separate items D1/1,11,

27–30,33–40,

49, D2/7

18 B3/5/E box 4 file 1 International Society for Socialist Studies D7/1–8,14





18 B3/5/E box 4 file 6 — ditto — D7/21, A1/60

18 B3/5/E box 5 file 1 [Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda] D4/7

18 B3/5/E box 5 file 2 — ditto — D4/1,10,11

19 B3/5/E box 5 file 3 — ditto — D4/2–5,11


19 B3/5/E box 5 file 5 [Friday Group] D1/67,69


D4/8,11


19 B3/5/E box 5 file 8 Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda,

New Fabian Research Bureau: press cuttings

D1/64

D4/9

“There is no box 6”

(1990 list)

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 1 Memorandum on local government To NCSRS

papers

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 2 New Gezira Tenants’ Association: memorandum

and proposed constitution

G5/8

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 3 Postal workers and the guild policy A1/49

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 4 International Transport Workers’ Federation G5/6

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 5 1940 Council: demographic survey To NCSRS

papers

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 6 Labour Party Advisory Committee on Local

Government

D2/2,3


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20 B3/5/E box 7 file 7 Labour Party Advisory Committee on Greater

London

D2/4

20 B3/5/E box 7 file 8 Daily herald: an analysis by Raymond Postgate G5/9

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 1 Articles from Sheffield and Rotherham

independent

G3/4

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 2 Guild socialism [1914] D3/15

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 3,4 Mellor and Cole: notes on compensation D2/5

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 5 Senex letters on associated labour G3/2

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 6 Employers’ Parliamentary Council: memorandum

on Trades Board Bill

G5/2

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 7 Paterson memorandum on insurance G5/7

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 8 Cole and Mellor: guild socialist notes D3/17

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 9 Federation of British Industries: report of

committee

G5/2

20 B3/5/E box 8 file 10 Grand Lodge of United Operative Tailors of

London: abstract of special meeting

G3/1

21 B3/5/E box 8 file 11 Friendly Society of Iron Moulders: centenary

souvenir

G3/7

21 B3/5/E box 8 file 12 List of G.D.H. Cole’s published works G1/1

21 B3/5/E box 9 file 1–7 Bibliography of the works of G.D.H. Cole by

H.P. Smith

G1/3–11

21 B3/5/E box 9 file 8 The essentials of socialisation A1/52

21 B3/5/E box 10 file 1 Departmental Committee on the Relief of the

Casual Poor

F5/2

21 B3/5/E box 10 file 2 Labour Book Club memoranda D2/8

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 1 Postcard from George Bernard Shaw

Correspondence with Sharman

Margaret Llewelyn Davies papers

MSS MIC C/9

G3/6

G5/4

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 2 Pamphlet on workers’ control on the railways A1/46

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 3,4 Notes from lectures by T.H. Green B2/10

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 5 Wartime Research Committee: minute book To NCSRS

papers

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 6 Map of Kettering as a co-operative centre C/3 (Joyce)


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21 B3/5/F box 11 file 7 Notes by G.N. Clark G5/10

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 8 Proposals by Violet Bonham-Carter for new

social security benefits

C/1

21 B3/5/F box 11 file 9 [Various lists, including library lists, of Cole

material]

“Removed”

(1960 list)

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 10 Letter from P.W. Nash to G.D.H. Cole C/5

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 11 Committee on Women in Industry F5/1

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 12 Postcards from G.B. Shaw to G.D.H. Cole C/6

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 13 Letter from A.R. Orage to J. Gaudy-Beurch D3/21

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 14 “Circus” lectures: correspondence E3/28

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 15 Easy money MSS MIC

A1/14

22 B3/5/F box 11 file 16 Letter from G.D.H. Cole to Evan Durbin C/2

Miscellaneous I:

23 B3/5/F misc. 1 file 1 Nuffield College Education Committee:

correspondence

To NCSRS

papers

23 B3/5/F misc. 1 file 2 Johnson’s England: essay by G.D.H. Cole A1/76

23 B3/5/F misc. 1 file 3 Politics for economists: MS notes G4/40

23 B3/5/F misc. 1 file 4–7 Nuffield College Social Reconstruction

Survey papers

To NCSRS

papers

Miscellaneous II

24 B3/5/F miscellaneous 2 file 1 Printed booklets To NCSRS

papers

24 B3/5/F miscellaneous 2 file 2 Victorian [Australia] Fabian papers D1/46

Miscellaneous Fabian papers

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file A Fabian Society/New Fabian Research Bureau:

revised rules, correspondence

D1/52

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file B New Fabian Research Bureau: reports on

research

D1/61

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file C New Fabian Research Bureau: rules, executive

committee minutes

D1/50

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file D New Fabian Research Bureau Economic

Committee: list of members

D1/54


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25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file E New Fabian Research Bureau: schemes of

research

D1/59,60

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file F New Fabian Research Bureau Economic

Committee: reports

D1/55,56

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file G New Fabian Research Bureau Socialisation

Committee: reports

D1/57,58

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file H Fabian Society: circulars D1/1

25 B3/5/F Fabian papers file J New Fabian Research Bureau: annual reports

1932–1938 [incomplete]

D1/51

26 M/1/B file 1 The Life of William Cobbett: notes A2/15,17

26 M/1/B file 2 [Cobbett letters] MISSING

26 M/1/B file 3 Notes on Cobbett in America A2/22

26 M/1/B file 4 Cobbett: notes A2/48

26 M/1/B file 5 [Cobbett] notes and essays A1/3

A2/22,24

26 M/1/B file 6 Cobbett: notes A2/15,22,

24,48

26 M/1/B file 7 [Cobbett] press cuttings, correspondence, notes

Wunovthem: a fantasy: typed copy

A2/15,18,19

C/1


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CZ 99 E6/9

21 CZ 143 G1/1

CZ 838 A2/25

CZ 1226 D3/20

CZ 1230 B2/4

CZ 1232A–B B2/1–2

CZ 1235, 1236 E3/26

CZ 1237 E3/27

20 CZ 1514 D3/15

20 CZ 1515B–C D3/17

20 CZ 1526 G3/1

CZ 1529 G5/9

20 CZ 1530 G3/2

20 CZ 1532 G5/2

20 CZ 1535 B G5/2

20 CZ 1540 G5/7

21 CZ 1543 G3/7

20 CZ 1587 A–C D2/5

20 CZ 1588 D2/5

CZ 1596 A–K D2/4

CZ 1621 C/1

20 CZ 1627 G3/4

CZ 2090 A E6/11

CZ 2090 C E6/12

CZ 2090 D E6/9

CZ 2090 E–F E6/13

CZ 2090 G–I E6/12


B a c k t o t o p

ABBREVIATIONS

c. circa

C.W.S. Co-operative Wholesale Society

(ed.) edited by, editor

(eds) editors

I.L.P. Independent Labour Party

ISSS International Society for Socialist Studies

I.T.F. International Transport Workers’ Federation

MS manuscript

MSS GDHC Papers of G.D.H. Cole

MSS MIC Papers of Margaret Cole

NCSRS Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey

n.d. no date

SSIP Society for Socialist Inquiry and Propaganda

T.U. trades union

UNESCO United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization


B a c k t o t o p

This table lists the folders

contained in each box. The

left-hand column gives the

running number of each box

and the right-hand column

gives the relevant folder

numbers. The running

numbers should only be used

for re-shelving and shelf-

checking.

1 A1/1-8

2 A1/9-14

3 A1/15-21

4 A1/22-27

5 A1/28-33

6 A1/34-38

7 A1/39-46

8 A1/47

9 A1/48-54

10 A1/55-62

11 A1/63-67

12 A1/68-72

13 A1/73-79

14 A2/1-7

15 A2/8-14

16 A2/15-21

17 A2/22-29

18 A2/30-35

19 A2/36-40

20 A2/41-45

21 A2/46-53

22 A2/54-60

23 A2/61-70

24 A3/1-7

25 B1/1-4

26 B2/1-4

27 B2/5-9

28 B2/10-21

29 B3/1-3

30 B4/1, B5/1

31 C/1-4

32 C/5-7

33 D1/1-8

34 D1/9-16

35 D1/17-23

36 D1/24-32

37 D1/33-40

38 D1/41-49

39 D1/50-58

40 D1/59-69

41 D2/1-9

42 D3/1-12

43 D3/13-17

44 D3/18-26

45 D4/1-11

46 D5/1-3,D6/1-4

47 D7/1-8

48 D7/9-14

49 D7/15-21

50 E1/1-7

51 E1/8-13

52 E2/1-6

53 E3/1-4

54 E3/5-10

55 E3/11-16

56 E3/17-20

57 E3/21-26

58 E3/27-29

59 E4/1-3

60 E5/1-3

61 E5/4-11

62 E5/12-19

63 E5/20-25

64 E5/26-28

65 E5/29-32

66 E5/33-37

67 E5/38-40

68 E5/41-44

69 E5/45-49

70 E5/50-56

71 E5/57-64

72 E5/65-72

73 E5/73-78

74 E5/79-85

75 E5/86

76 E5/87-90

77 E5/91-103

78 E5/104

79 E5/105-113

80 E5/114-128

81 E6/1-4

82 E6/5-12

83 E6/13-20

84 F1/1-3

85 F1/4-5

86 F1/6-7

87 F1/8-9

88 F1/10-12

89 F2/1-11

90 F2/12-23

91 F2/24-33

92 F2/34-39

93 F2/40-51

94 F2/52-54

95 F2/55-60

96 F2/61-62

97 F2/63-66

98 F2/67-71

99 F2/72-76

100 F3/1-8

101 F4/1-5

102 F4/6-12

103 F5/1-4

104 G1/1-2

105 G1/3-6

106 G1/7-11

107 G2/1-2

108 G2/3/1

109 G2/3/2

110 G2/4-5

111 G2/6-7

112 G2/8-9

113 G2/10-13

114 G3/1-8

115 G4/1-8

116 G4/9-16

117 G4/17-23

118 G4/24-32

119 G4/33-40

120 G5/1-10

121 Supp.01

122 Supp.02

123 Lists

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