Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Papers of Henry Mathison Pelling
Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Drafts of and notes taken for 'Churchill's peacetime ministry, 1951-55', research material on the history of the British Labour movement and the Communist Party of Great Britain, other notes, some diaries, cuttings, typescripts, letters, slides and ephemera.
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Drafts of, and notes taken for, 'Churchill's peacetime ministry, 1951-55'.
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Typescript copies of 'Churchill's peacetime ministry 1951-55'.
MS draft of parts of 'Churchill's peacetime ministry 1951-55'.
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Shuckburgh, Descent to Suez; Ferrell, Eisenhower Diaries; Sendall, Independent television in Britain; Charlton, The price of victory; Young, The foreign policy of Churchill's peacetime administration 1951-1955; Swinton, Sixty years of power; Webster, The health services since the War; Cable, The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina; FRUS 1952-1954 vol. xvi The Geneva Conference; FRUS 1952-1954, Part 2; FRUS 1952-1954 vol. v part 2.
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Woolton papers; MSS Conservative Party: Report of Committee on Trade Unionists Policy and Organisation; National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, 71st annual conference, Blackpool, 12-14 October 1951, official reprorts; CC 04; Monthly summary of reports on public opinion April - July 1954; Hansard 1954; Economic Survey 1954-5; Monckton.
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Gilbert, Churchill's political philosophy; The Times 31/1/55 - 7/4/55; Guardian 1/4/55 - 7/4/55; Economist 3/11/51 - 5/4/52; Devereux, Britain, the Commonwealth and the defence of the Middle East 1948-56 (Journal of Contemporary History 24, 2, Sept. 1989); Hansard.
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Daily Telegraph Oct - Nov 1951; Lysaght, Brendan Bracken; Hansard Jan - Feb 1952; Folliot, Documents on international affairs 1952; Hansard March 1952; Annual Register 1952; PREM 11/138; Hansard 1952; Barclay, The first commonwealth division; FRUS 1952-54 vol xv; Hansard 1952; The colonial territories 1951-52 (Parliamentary Papers, 1951-52, xxiv); The colonial territories 1952-53 (Parliamentary Papers, 1952-53, xxiii); The colonial territories 1953-54 (Parliamentary Papers, 1953-54, xxv); Douglas-Home, Evelyn Baring: the last proconsul; Rosberg, The myth of Mau Mau: nationalism in Kenya; Goldsworthy, Colonial issues in British politics 1945-61; The colonial territories 1953-54 (Parliamentary Papers, 1953-54, xxv cont.); Hansard 1953; FRUS 1952-54 vol. ix; Hansard 1952; BJIR March 1991; Dept of Employment Gazette March 1991; BJIR March 1989; Annual Review article 1988; Employment Gazette June 1991; ACAS Annual Report 1990; Employment Gazette June - July 1991; BJIR July 1989.
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FRUS 1952-54 vol. v; Cross, Lord Swinton; Kent, In on the act; Swinton papers; Fursdon, The European Defence Community; FRUS 1952-54 vol. vi; AR 1954; AR 1955; Hansard 1954; Brown, The battle of Crichel Down; Statement on defence 1955 (Parliamentary Papers, 1954-5, 475-504); The supply of military aircraft (Parliamentary Papers, x, 511-22); Hansard.
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Painter, Oil and the Marshall Plan (Business History Review lviii, 1984); Hansard; Annual Register 1951, 1952; FRUS 1949; Cairncross, The price of war. British policy on German reparations 1941-9; Gimbel, The American occupation of Germany: politics and the military 1945-9; Peterson, The American occupation of Germany: retreat to victory; FRUS 1950; Donovan, Tumultuous years: the presidency of Harry S. Truman 1949-53; McCoy, The presidency of Harry S. Truman; Kaplan, The United States and Nato; FRUS 1948, 1949; Economist 1952-3; FRUS 1952-4; FO 800/467; Clark & Wheeler, The British origins of nuclear strategy 1945-55; Gowing, Independence and deterrence: Britain and atomic energy 1945-52; Dorchester, The Crichel Down Case (Public Administration, xxxii, 1954); Clark & Wheeler, The British origins of nuclear strategy 1945-55; Hansard.
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Hansard; FRUS 1952-54; A history of post-war Russia; Annual Register 1953; Hansard; FRUS 1952-53; Slessor, The great deterrent; Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War; Hansard; Economist 19/12/53; Hansard; Documents on international affairs 1953; Daly, Imperial Sudan; Bell, Shadows on the sand; Hansard; Address by President Eisenhower to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on the pospects for world peace, 16 April 1953 (Documents on international affairs 1953); FRUS 1952-54; Annual Register 1953, 1954.
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Cantab shorthand book: Annual Register 1950; Hansard; Economic Cooperation (Parliamentary Papers, 1950-1, xxxiii); CAB 134 MAC(51) papers; FO 371; The Times 6/3/75; Coleman, Courtaulds. An economic and social history vol. 2; Phillips, The relation between unemployment and the rate of change of money wage rages in the United Kingdom 1861-1957 (Economica. N.S. 25, 1958).
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Spicers notebook: Kuczynski, Short history of labour conditions under industrial capitalism; Simon, English sanitary institutions; Monypenny & Buckle, Life of Benjamin Disraeli; Gulley, Joseph Chamberlain and English social politics; Gash, Politics in the age of Peel; The Welfare State.
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Girton notebook: Herd, The march of journalism; Butterfield, George III and the historians; The Poor Laws and the distribution of population c.1600-1800 with special reference to Lincolnshire (Trans. Inst. Brit. Geographers 1959); Roberts, Victorian origins of the British Welfare State; Finer, The life and times of Sir Edwin Chadwick; The politics of democracy: the English Reform Bill of 1867 (Journal of British Studies, vi, Nov. 1966); Myers, Politics and personality in ? Holt (Renaissance and Modern Studies, x, 1966); Greenwood, The seven curses of London; Prothero, Labour working-class movements 1825-48; Griffith, The resurrection of Hungary.
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'Wales': Church Congress 1899; Ravenstein, On the Celtic language in the British Isles: a statistical summary (Journal of the Statistical Society 1875); The Times 11/2/92; Williams, Geographical distribution of political opinion in the County of Glamorgan for the Parliamentary elections 1820-1950; Albert Spicer 1847-1934; Johnes, An essay on the causes which have produced dissent from the established Church in the Principality of Wales; Jenkins, The ? of nationalism in Wales (Sociological Review, xxvii, 1935); Royal Commission on Land - Wales and Monmouthshire (Parliamentary Papers, 1896, xxiv); Hamer (ed.), The personal papers of Lord Rendel; Languages in Wales and Monmouthshire (Parliamentary Papers, 1893-4, cvi); The Cardiff region: a survey prepared for the meeting of the British Association in Cardiff 1960; Census of England and Wales 1911 (Parliamentary Papers, 1913, lxxix); Church of England in Wales (Parliamentary Papers, 1910, xiv); Roman Catholic or Church of England & other religious bodies in Wales & Monmouthshire (Parliamentary Papers, 1910, xviii); Church of England in Wales (Parliamentary Papers, 1910, xiv); Rhys & Brynmor-Jones, The Welsh people; Ashby & Evans, The agriculture of Wales and Monmouth; Rees, Studies in Welsh history; James, Church history of Wales; 1888 Church Congress; Morgan, A study of the attitude and policies of the British political parties towards Welsh affairs ... 1870-1920.
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Loose notebook pages including: Daily Chronicle 1906-7; Smith, The Conservative Party and some problems primarily affecting the condition of the working classes 1866-80; Guardian 1885-6; Gregory, The miners in politics in England and Wales 1906-14; Gibson, A compilation of statistics ... of the coal mining industry of the United Kingdom; Gladstone MSS; Parliamentary Papers, 1889, xv; Parliamentary Papers, 1892; Parliamentary Papers, 1904, cviii; Tobias, The influence of social, economic and administrative change in crime and criminals in selected areas of England 1815-75; Briggs, Trade Union history and Labour history (Business History, viii, 1966); Balfour Papers; Salisbury Papers; Newspaper cuttings relating to Brightside elections of 1900, 1906, 1910; Mills, English villages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (The Amateur Historian, vi, 1965); Parliamentary Papers, 1850, xxvii.
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Loose pages. List of theses and newspapers. Includes the following letters:
ALS from Bernard Donoughue, London School of Economics, to Pelling, 15 March 1968, re Herbert Morrison papers. 1p.
Typescript letter signed from J.S. Ritchie, Deputy Keeper National Library of Scotland, to Pelling, 21 November 1966, re Lord Haldane papers. 1p.
Typescript declaration regarding access to papers of 1st Viscount Samuel from House of Lords Records Office. 1p.
Typescript letter signed from C.G. Allen, Keeper of MSS British Library of Political and Economic Science, to Pelling, 1 April 1968, re Beveridge and Lothian papers. 1p.
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Typescript.
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Welcomes Pelling to the Academy and provides information.
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Cutting from the 'Daily Telegraph'.
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Cutting from 'Liberal Democrat News'.
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'Labor History', [1991], pp 287-288.
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Undated.
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Typescript. There is a cross next to 'Getting Marlowe to hold his tongue: the Conservative Party, the intelligence services and the Zinoviev letter' by Ferris and Bar-Joseph (Intelligence & National Security, vol. 8, October 1993).
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St. John's College Lecture at the University of Hull, 26 April 1988. Typescript. 'Henry from Peter' on the front.
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'The Cambridge Review', 11 June 1966, pp 477-478.
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'Times Literary Supplement', 26 May 1966.
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'The Chronicle of Higher Education', 27 January 1993, A6-A8. Re: 'Churchill: the end of glory' by John Charmley.
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Pasted to the letter is a newspaper cutting with a letter from Robert J. Bibbero to the Editor, both regarding the origin of the term 'iron curtain'.
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'The Observer', 28 December 1969, pp.7-10.
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Encloses a countersigned copy of the Eastern Press contract for Pelling's 'Winston Churchill'.
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Discusses the possibility of a new edition of Pelling's 'A history of British Trade Unionism'.
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Typescript. With MS additions by Pelling. Presentation inscription on cover: 'Henry - In speechless admiration. Jackie.'
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United Kingdom available resources; balance of payments (pp.67-73); The 1949-50 programme of the United Kingdom (pp.247-262).
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Encloses royalty statement from 1 July to 31 December 1962 for 'Modern Britain 1885-1955'.
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Stored in a case.
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Which? Consumer Guides (London, 1992).
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Tape with booklet in box.
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Given by Dr P.F. Clarke, July 2004.
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This material was presented to the Library as, largely, 'unsorted'. Divisions of material between boxes have been retained. Letters have been resequenced chronologically and by sender as appropriate; notebooks have been kept in the groupings and sequences in which they arrived.
Given by Alastair Reid (Girton College), 2015.
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Two copies, one missing the final page.
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Versions of work on the origins of the Labour Party.
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All pages loose from hard binding.
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Institutional affiliation given as St John's College, Cambridge.
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Institutional affiliation given as St John's College, Cambridge.
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Institutional affiliation given as The Queen's College, Oxford.
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Two manuscript letters dated 23/06/1956 and 29/09/1958.
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Two typescript letters dated 24/08/1956 and 23/10/1956.
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Typescript letter dated 18/12/1956.
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Three letters dated 28/04/1957 (manuscript), 08/10/1958 (typescript) and 12/10/1958 (manuscript).
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Manuscript letter dated 11/11/57.
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Typescript letter dated 26/12/1957.
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Manuscript letter dated 16/01/1958.
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Five letters dated 12/03/1958 (typescript), 19/01/1959 (typescript), 16/05/1959 (typescript with two pages of manuscript notes), 01/06/1959 (manuscript) and 10/07/1979 (manuscript), plus one loose typescript sheet with manuscript note referencing 1959.
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Three manuscript letters dated 17/07/1958, 03/10/1958 and 10/10/[1958 by inference].
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Typescript letter dated 07/11/1958.
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Typescript letter dated 12/11/1958.
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Two typescript letters dated 31/12/1958 and 14/01/1959.
Editor of 'Plebs' magazine, and secretary of the National Council of Labour Colleges.
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Typescript letter dated 19/01/1959.
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Fifteen manuscript letters dated 23/10/1959, 29/01/1959, 05/02/1959, 25/02/1959, 18/12/1959, 25/12/1959, 15/01/1960, 09/02/1960, 21/02/1960, 07/08/1963, 09/06/1966, 11/06/1966, 19/04/1968, 20/10/1968 and 07/04/1971.
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Typescript letter dated 14/02/1959.
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Three manuscript letters dated 28/02/1959, [undated but continuing pagination from the previous letter] and 13/03/1959 (again continuing pagination).
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Typescript letter dated 14/12/1959.
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Typescript letter dated 30/11/1961.
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Manuscript letter dated 09/04/1962.
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Typescript letter dated 21/06/1963.
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Typescript letter dated 05/09/1970.
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Typescript letter dated 03/07/1974.
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Manuscript letter dated 18/09/1976.
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Manuscript letter dated 4 November.
Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Undated typescript letter.
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Melbourn: E.W. Cole, 1895. Inscribed 'with compliments from Elsie Belle Champion'. Hardbound.
Wife of Henry Hyde Champion (1859-1928) and sister of Vida Goldstein (1969-1949).
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Envelope containing, in this order: 1 typescript letter to Mrs Champion from William Heinemann, Ltd. Publishers, 8/8/1940; 5 photographs (1 in postcard format); 1 press cutting (Trinidad Reform, 30/6/1897); typescript letter to Mrs Champion from Sydney Lech of the Authors Club (20/5/1928); 1 press cutting (The Pacific, 23/7/1925); 1 sheet of transcribed telegrams from Joseph Conrad (9/4/1912) and John Galsworthy (21/3/1928); 1 typescript letter from Mrs Champion to Pelling accompanying the material (30/1/1950); 1 photocopied letter from Baron Corvo to, Mrs Champion speculates, a 'mutual friend', 'R' (24/3/1894).
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Envelope containing, in this order: 1 manuscript letter to Mrs Champion from Cunninghame Graham (2/12/1928); 1 manuscript letter to 'Mrs Dickson' from Cunninghame Graham (22/7/1915); 5 further typescript letters to Mrs Champion from Cunninghame Graham (22/8/1921; 12/12/192[?]; 10/12/1919; 16/9/1918; 30/4/1919); 11 letters to H.H. Champion from Cunninghame Graham (6/12/1902; 12/2/1905; 26/4/1905; 3/7/1905; 9/10/1905; 4/1/1906; 27/11/1906; 4/5/1907; 12/8/1907; 6/11/1907; 7/11/1907), with typed transcripts of some of these and of a letter dated 6/12/1906.
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Envelope containing, in this order: 1 typescript memoir of Champion by Herbert Brookes; 1 manuscript letter to Pelling from Walter Murdoch, written to accompany the previous item (22/5/1950); 1 manuscript letter to Pelling from A.R. Henderson (27/6/1950); 1 manuscript letter to Pelling from Frederic W. Eggleston (31/3/1950); 1 press cutting of Champion's obituary.
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Envelope containing 9 photographs and drawings.
Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Henry Mathison Pelling was born in the Wirral in 1920, the son of a stockbroker. He was educated at Birkenhead School and was elected to an open exhibition in classics at St John's College, which he entered in 1939. Pelling's studies were interrupted by war service, during which he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, serving in Normandy and at the Battle for Berlin. Already awarded a BA in 1942 under war conditions, Pelling took his MA on his return to Cambridge in 1947 and was awarded a PhD in 1950. From 1949 to 1965 he was Fellow and Praelector of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1966 returned to Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of St John's and director of research at the University history faculty. He was promoted to a readership in 1976.
Pelling's scholarly achievements centred on modern history and he became an authority on the labour movement. His best known works are 'The Origins of the Labour Party' (1954), 'Short History of the Labour Party' (1961), 'The History of British Trade Unionism' (1963), 'The Social Geography of British Elections' (1967) and 'Politics and Society in Late Victorian Britain' (1968). Pelling also wrote a biography of Winston Churchill (1974). His achievements were recognized in 1992 by his election to a Fellowship of the British Academy. Pelling died in 1997.
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Assistant Registrary, University of Cambridge General Board of the Faculties.
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Research Assistant, The Labour Party.
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Dated 16/10/1947, 23/10/1947, 28/10/1947, 9/3/1948, 15/3/1948, 21/4/1948 and 5/5/1948.
Secretary of the Board of Research Studies, University of Cambridge.
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Dated 23/10/1947 and 6/12/1948.
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Manuscript notes on reverse in Pelling's hand: an 8-point version of the Socialist Ten Commandments.
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Dated 27/7/1948 and 20/1/1949.
Publicity Officer, Trades Union Congress.
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Letter dated 5/9/1948; card (from Jim and Lucy Middleton) undated; notes dated 8/2/1949.
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Dated 20/1/1949 and 5/3/1949.
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Letter dated 1/2/1949; postcard dated 1/4/1949.
Benians was born in Goudhurst, Kent in 1880. His father was the headmaster of Bethany School in Goudhurst, and it was here that Benians received his schooling. He was admitted to St John's in 1899 and became a Fellow in 1906. Benians was appointed Lecturer in History in 1912, became a Tutor in 1918, and Senior Tutor in 1926. In the same year he was made University Lecturer in History, specialising in the history of the British colonies and dependencies, and the United States of America. He was Master of St John's from 1933 until his death in 1952, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University 1939-41.
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General Secretary, Fabian Society.
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Dated 9/3/1949 and 18/3/1949.
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Secretary, The Labour Party.
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Founding member of the Fabian Society.
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Secretary, The Communist Party London District Committee.
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Dated 28/3/1949 and 2/5/1949.
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Dated 8/12/1952 and 31/3/1963.
General Secretary, The National Union of Stove Grate and General Metal Workers.
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County Borough of Smethwick Education Committee.
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Dated 19/4/1956 (with extracts from School Board and Education Committee Minutes) and 24/4/1956.
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Librarian, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Magazine.
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From 'The Weekly News', Saturday October 28th 1893.
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From the New York 'Sun', April 13 1906.
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From the 'Labour Leader', April 27, 1906.
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This box mainly contains photocopies and transcripts (originally presented to the Library as 'unsorted') of Pelling's research material (largely letters from various archives). The items have been grouped broadly by format.
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1 typescript letter from the Censor, St Catharine's Society, Oxford, dated 7/11/1955 and accompanying 2 letters from the Bevin papers; 1 typescript letter from Rowan Fanning, Peterhouse, dated 3/11/1966, to accompany a transcript (not attached) of a James Keir Hardie letter; 1 manuscript letter from Richard Hill, Department of Internal Affairs, dated 16/6/1976 and accompanying copies of material from the National Archives.
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1 set of copies from the Allen papers ('D 4/10/4') relating to correspondence regarding compulsory national service; 9 bundles of letters to A.M. Simons.
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Pages numbered 1A-61A.
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Pages numbered 1B-62B.
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'Microfilm supplied by H.H. Print.' Photocopied correspondence.
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'Microfilm supplied by H.H. Print.' Photocopied correspondence.
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Encloses James Kerr's entry from the Register of Births and typescript copy of A.A. Durward's essay 'The Truth about James Kerr alias Keir Hardie and the I.L.P.'.
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'Our History' pamphlet no. 26-7, Summer-Autumn 1962.
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