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BRITISH COMMUNISTS IN THE DNB: As widely publicised in the press the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) was published in September 2004, both on-line and in a sixty-volume print version. This can be purchased at £7,500 (!), otherwise subscription details and other information is available at http://www.oxforddnb.com. Among the new entries on British communists identified on a preliminary word search are R. Page Arnot (by Anthony Howe), James Boswell (Julian Freeman) Reg Birch and Dick Brigginshaw (Geoffrey Goodman), Jack Braddock (Sam Davies), Bessie Braddock (Elizabeth Vallance), Stella Browne (Lesley A Hall), Desmond Buckle (Hakim Adi), J.R. Campbell and John Gollan (Monty Johnstone), Les Cannon (John Lloyd), Helen Crawfurd (Helen Corr), R Palme Dutt (John Callaghan), Alan Ecclestone (T J Gorringe), Dick Etheridge (Alistair Tough), William Gallacher, Marjery Newbold and J.T. Walton Newbold (Robert Duncan), Arthur Horner and Will Paynter (Hwyel Francis), Winifred Horrabin (Amanda L Capern), Margaret Hunter (Neil Rafeek), Allen Hutt, T A Jackson, Harry Pollitt and William Rust (Kevin Morgan), Claudia Jones (Marika Sherwood), Lewis Jones and T E Nicholas (Meic Stephens), Yvonne Kapp (Matthew McFall), Peter Kerrigan and Harry Wicks (John McIlroy), Hyman Levy (John Stewart), Mick McGahey (Robert Taylor), W H Mainwaring (Chris Williams), Tom Mann (Chris Wrigley), Abe Moffat (David Howell), Dora Montefiore (Karen Hunt), J.T. Murphy (Raplh Darlington), Sylvia Pankhurst (June Hannam), Wogan Phillipps (C V J Griffiths), Ernie Roberts (Frank Allaun), Shapurji Saklatvala (Mike Squires), John Strachey (Mike Newman) and Freda Utley (D A Farnie).
NEW 'COMMUNIST LIVES' SERIES: Matthew Worley writes: 'Given the burgeoning nature of communist studies, I.B. Tauris have agreed to establish a 'Communist Lives' series under the editorship of Matthew Worley. This will begin with an English translation of Aldo Agosti's biography of Palmiro Togliatti, and it is expected that future contributions will focus on such leading international figures as Thälmann, Gramsci, Thorez and Tito. The series will include translations, newly commissioned work and collections of essays; books will be considered on a case by case basis. Such a series will obviously be of major value to the study of international communism, and interest has already been high. Even so, for it to flourish it is necessary for a broad range of 'communist lives' to be covered.' Anyone wishing to contribute to the series should contact .
SALLY BELFRAGE PAPERS: The Tamiment Institute, an archival library of labour and radical research materials, is making available the papers of Sally Belfrage, a longtime friend and reader of Monthly Review who died in 1994. Belfrage wrote numerous books on the personal side of some of the important political events of her time, including life in the USSR in the 1950s, the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, and the antinuclear and Irish freedom movements in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the daughter of Cedric Belfrage, a frequent contributor to MR and a founding editor of the National Guardian. Her papers have joined his at Tamiment. The Tamiment Library's website can be found at: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/.
SOCIALIST HISTORY JOURNAL WEBSITE: Launched in the autumn of 2004, the Socialist History Journal has a new dedicated website. The site contains full contents lists for all of the issues of the journal published by Rivers Oram since 1998; the back cover descriptions of each issue's theme; and full subscription and contact details for the journal and the Socialist History Society. In the coming months, some sample content from past issues will be available in .pdf format from the site; which will also host material related to the articles published in the journal. The site can be found at http://www.socialist-history-journal.org.uk
