Archives 1916, 1926.

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Archives 1916, 1926.

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Documents on the General Strike in 1926 covered by R. Postgate for Lansbury's Labour Weekly. Notebook; L̀abour Leaflets' and circulars by organizations in Oxford; the G̀.J. Simmonds file' containing letters and circulars of (Joint) Strike Committees in the south, in which branches of the National Union of Railwaymen and of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen took part; a volume of strike bulletins issued throughout Great Britain; correspondence in answer to a questionnaire about the strike; printed and stencilled issues of non labour journals, partly emergency bulletins, and copies of newspapers collected by J.P.M. Millar, with articles on the General Strike. Documents on the National Council for Civil Liberties 1916, i.e. typescripts of reports analysing the ruling of the tribunals, the attitudes of military and nonmilitary members; of quotations from statements of members of the House of Commons and quotations from newspapers on industrial conscription; of short case histories on conscientious objectors, of a pamphlet M̀iddlesex Appeal' and of C̀ivil Liberties under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914-1916'.

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Postgate, Raymond, 1896-1971

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Raymond William Postgate (1896-1971) was educated at Oxford University. A conscientious objector, disinherited by his father for his views, he was arrested and court-martialled, but later released due to ill health. From the guide to the Raymond Postgate papers, 1914-1990, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Born in Cambridge, Great Britain 1896, died in Great Britain 1971; journalist, author on labour and radical history; attracted to Guild socialism; one of the first conscie...