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TUC LIBRARY COLLECTIONS: The Trades Union Congress Library Collections have been deposited with the University of North London. The collections include extensive pamphlet and periodical holdings published by or relating to the communist movement include runs of many CPGB periodicals from the 1920s onwards. The collections can be consulted Monday to Friday, 10-4.30 and appointments should be made through the librarian, Christine Coates, TUC Library Collections, Learning Centre, University of North London, 236-250 Holloway Rd, London N7 6PP; 020-7753-3184; c.coates@unl.ac.uk.
BRITISH LIBRARY SUBJECT GUIDE: The British Library of Political and Economic Science has produced a new series of guides to its pamphlet collections. Subjects covered include industry, transport, social policy and — most directly helpful to historians of communism - labour. Details from BLPES, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD.
HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM: Thanks to the Historians of American Communism for drawing attention to the newsletter. The HOAC Newsletter, now in its seventeenth year, includes a running bibliography of writings on US communism, notes and queries on work in progress and archival news. Subscriptions (individuals: $13; libraries and overseas: $19) should be sent to Dan Leab, HOAC, PO Box 1216, Washington, CT 06973.
DECODED CI MESSAGES: Copies of coded messages between the Communist International and its national sections are now accessible to researchers in the Public Record Office (ref. HW17). The messages were decoded by the British government's Code and Cypher School and relate to a number of other communist parties as well as the CPGB, for which there are six files of messages 1934-37. Matters of party policy, its funding by the Comintern and pressure for enrolments for the International Lenin School are among the subjects touched upon.
TRIBUTE TO EDDIE FROW: Many readers will have been saddened by the death in May of Edmund Frow, communist, trade union activist and co-founder with his wife Ruth of the Working Class Movement Library. A tribute to Eddie is to be published in the new year by the North West Labour History Group, details from WCML, 51 Crescent, Salford M5 4WX.
