FOOTNOTE TROUBLE
Paul Anderson writes:
Style questions still not sorted, but I've decided to crack on with the footnotes because, well, it beats proofing OCRed copy.
So far, so good on this, but I'm stuck on a couple of things:
1. Douglas Reed, right-wing journalist and polemicist, subject of a critical Orwell review in late 1943 and then mentioned in an 'As I Please' column. A nasty piece of work but a very readable writer now remembered only by Holocaust-deniers for his postwar revisionist writings. I have plenty of details of his early career and know his books, but I need references for enthusiastic left-wing responses to his 1938 book Insanity Fair, don't have a lot on where he was published in the mainstream press in the 1940s and have almost nothing on what he got up to after the war apart from writing books neo-Nazis rather like. Can anyone help?
2. Plebs magazine. Again, I'm OK on the origins but can't find anything more than the bare bones of its history after the mid-1930s. Anyone know a good book? Maybe I simply can't put off that trip to Colindale...
3. New Leader newspaper. Yet again, I'm fine up to the 30s and then there's a blank... Colindale again, I'm afraid, but maybe there's someone out there who is au fait with the history of the ILP in the 1940s and 1950s who can give me chapter and verse on the thing.
Paul Anderson writes:
Style questions still not sorted, but I've decided to crack on with the footnotes because, well, it beats proofing OCRed copy.
So far, so good on this, but I'm stuck on a couple of things:
1. Douglas Reed, right-wing journalist and polemicist, subject of a critical Orwell review in late 1943 and then mentioned in an 'As I Please' column. A nasty piece of work but a very readable writer now remembered only by Holocaust-deniers for his postwar revisionist writings. I have plenty of details of his early career and know his books, but I need references for enthusiastic left-wing responses to his 1938 book Insanity Fair, don't have a lot on where he was published in the mainstream press in the 1940s and have almost nothing on what he got up to after the war apart from writing books neo-Nazis rather like. Can anyone help?
2. Plebs magazine. Again, I'm OK on the origins but can't find anything more than the bare bones of its history after the mid-1930s. Anyone know a good book? Maybe I simply can't put off that trip to Colindale...
3. New Leader newspaper. Yet again, I'm fine up to the 30s and then there's a blank... Colindale again, I'm afraid, but maybe there's someone out there who is au fait with the history of the ILP in the 1940s and 1950s who can give me chapter and verse on the thing.
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Posted at 12:43 AM
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Thanks to Kevin Davey for digging up a rather good piece on Douglas Reed by Richard Gott, of all people, from the New Statesman in 1998, which relates the story of Reed's seedy anti-semitic trajectory after the war.
Still after accounts of Plebs and New Leader in the 1940s, though...
Still after accounts of Plebs and New Leader in the 1940s, though...
I'm guessing that a good person to consult for a thumbnail sketch of the ILP/New Leader in that period would be Terry Liddle. I know he doesn't date from that period but he is a good fund of stories/knowledge of that period as he was an ILPer in the 60s, and was, therefore, around the older generation of the ILP at that time.
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