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This subseries contains various documents pertaining to the Unservile State Group and associated groups and projects, including minutes, publication information and cuttings. A small group of other political documents has been appended. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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COLLECTION INFORMATION

Description by 'J.B.' of the contents of an earlier version of the papers
'Manuscript Collection': George Watson's description of the papers (25 May 1978)
Leaflet describing the Archives of Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (presumably considered as a potential depository)

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'UNSERVILE STATE, 1953-1991'

Retrospective article by George Watson, in typescript and published form (22 February 1991)

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MEMBERSHIP AND CONTACTS

Membership lists
List of Liberal peers (January 1966)
Contact details of European liberal figures
List of academic libraries in Eastern Europe

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POLICY STATEMENTS

Unservile State Group
National Campaign on Behalf of the Low-income Groups
The Acton Society Trust

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AGENDAS AND MINUTES

10 February 1956 minutes
22-23 June 1956 minutes
27 July 1956 minutes

17 May 1957 agenda
17 May 1957 minutes
28 August 1957 minutes

10 May 1968 minutes

18 May 1970 minutes

4 March 1971 minutes
19 May 1971 minutes

7 December 1972 agenda

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Memorandum: 'The Liberal Party and Co-ownership' (April 1954)

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PUBLICATIONS

'The projected Liberal "Yellow Book"' (circa July 1953)
'Memorandum on a Projected Book on British Liberalism in the Mid-century' (July 1954)
Arthur Holt, pamphlet suggestions (undated)
Memorandum of pamphlet suggestions (undated)
'Liberty in the Welfare State' comments (1956)

'The Unservile State' copyright agreements (1956)
'The Unservile State' contributor information (book published 25 July 1957)

'Radical Alternative' progress report (30 August 1961)
'Radical Alternative' preface (May 1962)
'Radical Alternative' revised prelims
'Radical Alternative' notes on contributors

Notes pertaining to Edwin George West, perhaps the second edition (1970) of his 'Education and the State' (1965)

University of Leeds press release about The Elliott Dodds Lecture (24 January 1972)

Richard Moore and Christine Morgan, 'The Liberals in Europe' pamphlet (1974)

Samuel Brittan and Barry Riley, 'A People's Stake in North Sea Oil' pamphlet (1980)

Photocopy of Christopher Mayhew's 'Liberals, Social Democrats and Defence' pamphlet (1984)

Michael Meadowcroft, 'Dear David, Thanks, Yours Neil' (20 May 1990)

Report by 'Nick' on an unknown pamphlet or article

List of the Unservile State Papers pamphlets

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Three sheets of Unservile State Group stationery

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CUTTINGS

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Folder labelled 'USG Agendas Addresses etc'

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OTHER POLITICAL DOCUMENTS

'Co-ownership in Industry' (April 1952)
'Co-ownership at Work' (October 1952)

'Books for Poland: A report to the Secretary of the Writers and Publishers Committee for European Cooperation', to which is attached a list of pertinent Polish addresses (1957)

Copied pages from Frank O'Gorman's 'Voters, Patrons and Parties' (1989)

Derek Beales, 'The Electorate before and after 1832' (14 October 1991)

Vote count for the 2005 Parliamentary Council Election in Cambridge

This subseries contains Watson's correspondence with members of the Unservile State Group as well as associated figures; on occasion files contain, per Watson's grouping, correspondence about, as well as to or from, the person named. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.

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ALLEN, George
ARON, Raymond
ASHDOWN, Paddy

BARNES, Rosie
BEITH, Alan
BONHAM-CARTER, Mark
BRIGGS, Asa
BRITTAN, Samuel
BRUNNER, John
BUCHAN, Alistair
BUSH, Ian E
BUTLER, David

CAMERON, J M
CARR, Edward Hallett
CHILVER, Sylvia
CLARK, William
CLARKE, Norman
CONQUEST, Robert
COWIE, Harry
CRANSTON, Maurice
CROOME, Honor
CROUCH, Colin
CURLE, Adam C T W

DAHRENDORF, Ralf
DAY, Robin
DEIGHTON, Herbert Stanley
DENNISON, S R
DODDS, Elliott
DUNCAN, Dennis H

ELTIS, Walter

FOGARTY, Michael P
FOOT, Michael
FORBES, Bryan
FURTH, C A

GOODHART, A L
GRENSTED, L W
GRIGG, John Edward Poynder, Lord Altrincham
GRIMOND, Jo

HAGUE, Douglas
HAMSON, C J
HARVEY, Heather
HARTLEY, Anthony
HERBERT, S Mervyn
HIBBS, John
HILL, Evelyn
HOLFORD, William
HOLLINGWORTH, Clare
HOLLIS, Christopher
HONORÉ, Tony
HOOSER, H Emlyn
HUGH JONES, E M
HUTTON, Graham
HYDE, H Montgomery

JAMES, Walter
JEBB, Hubert Miles Gladwyn, Lord Gladwyn
JEFFREYS, Harold
JENKINS, Roy
JENNINGS, Bernard
JEWKES, John
JOHNSON, Paul

KASER, Michael
KEITH-LUCAS, Brian
KENNEDY, Ludovic

LAMB, Richard
LASKY, Melvin J
LE FOE, Dominic
LEVIN, Bernard
LEYLAND, Norman Harrison
LIDDELL HART, Basil Henry
LORT-PHILLIPS, Patrick

MacCALLUM SCOTT, John
MacDONALD, John
MACKAY, Simon Brooke, Baron Tanlaw
MacKENZIE, Norman
MACKIE, George Yull
MADARIAGA, Salvador de
MADDEN, Freddie
MAITLAND, Patrick
MARTIN, David
McCALLUM, Ronald Buchanan
MEADE, J S
MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard
MORGAN, Christine
MORGAN, E
MORPURGO, Jack
MORRELL, William B
MOSER, Claus Adolf
MOUGHTON, Barry
MURDOCH, Iris

NAIRN, Ian
NEWBY, Donald
NICHOLAS, H G
NICOLSON, Nigel

PAIGE, Duncan
PAISH, F W
PATON, Alan
PEACOCK, Alan T
PETERSON, A D C
POLANYI, Michael
POLLITT, Brian
POWELL, Dilys
PRESTON, Phyllis
PRYCE-JONES, Alan

RICE, Valerie
ROSE, Richard
ROWNTREE, B Philip
RUSSELL, Conrad Sebastian Robert, Lord Russell

SADLEIR, Michael
SALTER, Frank R
SAMUEL, Godfrey
SANDFORD, Cedric
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SELF, Peter
SHONFIELD, Andrew
SKELSEY, Philip
SLOMAN, Peter
SMITH, Trevor
SPARROW, John
SPRECKLEY, David R A
STEEL, David M S

TAVERNE, Dick
TEMPLE SMITH, Maurice
THOMAS, W Harford
THOMSON, David
THOMSON, John
THORPE, Jeremy
TRILLING, Lionel

USBORNE, Henry

VINCENT, John R

WADE, Henry William Rawson
WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WARD PERKINS, Neville
WATKINS, Philip
WAYNE, Francis
WEST, E G
WHEATCROFT, G S A
WILES, Peter
WILLIAMS, Raymond
WINT, Guy
WISEMAN, Jack

Bernard Jennings served as Secretary of the Unservile State Group, and his collection of relevant correspondence, presumably passed to George Watson, is represented here. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents follows.

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(N.B. These files representing individual correspondents are preceded in the sequence by a file containing event invitations and groups of replies from various people.)

AIREDALE, Oliver
ARMITAGE, John
ARNOLD, Ron

BEAUMONT, Timothy Wentworth
BELOFF, Max
BRITTAN, Samuel

CRANSTON, Maurice

DALE, Tom
DAVIDSON, James
DAWES, Margaret
DEIGHTON, H S
DODDS, Elliott
DÛCHENE, François

GRIMOND, Jo

HARVEY, Heather
HUTTON, Graham

JOHNSTON, Russell

MEADOWCROFT, Michael
MICKLEM, Nathaniel
MIRFIN, Derick
MOORE, Richard

RAVETZ, Jerome
ROWNTREE, B Philip

SUMERLING, B

THOMPSON, John

WADE, William Oulton, Lord Wade
WAINWRIGHT, Richard
WATSON, George
WEST, Edwin
WHITELEY, Kath
WILES, Peter
WISEMAN, Jack
WOLFERS, John

This subseries contains preparatory documents relating to 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION

‘List of Contributors and Revisers’ for the 1959 CBEL Supplement
‘Proposals Submitted by Mr George Watson’ (16 February 1963)
‘Proposals submitted by Professor Phillip Harth’ (23 April 1963)
‘Some Comments by F.W. Bateson’ (28 May 1963)
Peter Meade, ‘Notes on Proposed Revision of the CBEL’ (undated)
‘Reflections stimulated by the existing reports…’ (5 June 1963)
‘Points made for the attention of the General Editor’ (8 June 1963)
‘Reviews of the Bateson edition’ (focusing on the Index) (undated)
‘New CBEL Index Volume’ (undated)
Suggestions about the index, compiled by Peter Burbidge (4 May 1971)

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MEMORANDA OF AGREEMENT

Between George Watson and Cambridge University Press (23 September 1964)
Between JP Pickles (compiler of the Index) and Cambridge University Press (1971)

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GUIDELINES

Abbreviations
‘New CBEL: Periodical Articles / October 1966’
Notes for Contributors draft with MS corrections
Seven copies of Notes for Contributors
‘Minor Poetry’ sample pages
‘The Novel’ annotated sample page
‘Notes for the Printer’
‘Volume 5: Index – Draft headnote’

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LETTERS TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS FROM GEORGE WATSON

20 July 1967
May 1969
June 1971
8 May 1972

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Dust jacket

This subseries contains correspondents with and/or concerning (potential or actual) contributors to, and other parties involved in, 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list of correspondents/subjects follows.

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ABRAMS, Philip
AITKEN, A J
ALLOTT, Miriam
ALSTON, Robin C
ALTICK, Richard D
ANDERSON, C
ARNOTT, James F
AVERY, Emmett L

BARBER, Giles
BARKER, Nicholas J
BARNARD, John
BARR, C Bernard L
BATESON, F W
BATTESTIN, Martin
BAWCUTT, Priscilla
BEER, Gillian
BELANGER, Terry
BENNETT, Jack A W
BENTLEY, Gerry E
BILL, E G W
BISHOP, Terence Alan Martyn
BLAKE, Norman
BLANCK, Jacob
BLAND, D S
BLISS, Alan J
BLUNDEN, Edmund
BOLGAR, Robert
BOND, Donald F
BOOTH, Bradford A
BREEM, W W S
BRETT, Philip
BRETT, R L
BROOKS, Harold F
BROOKS, Kenneth R
BROWN, T Julian
BURBIDGE, Peter G
BURTON, Anthony
BUTLER, Marilyn
BUTT, John

CAMERON, Kenneth
CAMPBELL, A
CAMPOS, Christophe
CANNEY, M B C
CAREY, John
CARROLL, John
CARNALL, Geoffrey
CARTER, John
CAWLEY, A C
CEADEL, Eric B
CHADWICK, Owen
CHAPPLE, John A V
CIGMAN, Gloria
CLEMOES, Peter and GODDEN, M R
CLIFFORD, James L
COCKCROFT, Robert
COLLINS, Philip
COLLINS, Rowland L
COLLINSON, Patrick
COLVER, A Wayne
COLVIN, Christina
CORSON, James C
CRAIGIE, James
CRAIK, Tom W
CRAWFORD, Thomas
CRAWFORD, William R
CROSS, James E
CRUM, Margaret C
CURTIS, Stanley J

DAHL, Folke and Kristin
DAVID, R W
DAVIES, Reg
DAVIES, William
DAVIS, Herbert
DAVIS, Norman
DAVISON, Peter
DAY, Robert A
DEARING, Vinton A
DE BEER, Esmond
DEDEYAN, Charles
DE VANE, William
DICK, Hugh G
DODSWORTH, Martin
DONNER, H W
DORSCH, T S ‘Ted’
DOYLE, A I
DUNN, Robert D

ECCLESHARE, C F
EDWARDS, Philip
EHRENPREIS, Irvin
ENDICOTT, Norman
ERSKINE-HILL, Howard
ESPLIN, David G

FAYEN, George S
FERGUSON, Oliver W
FIELDING, K J
FLEEMAN, J David
FOWLER, Alistair D S
FOXON, David
FRANCIS, Frank
FRANKIS, P John
FREDEMAN, William E
FRIEDMAN, Arthur
FULLER, John

GARDNER, W H
GASKELL, Philip
GOLLIN, Richard M
GREEN, Roger Lancelyn
GREENE, David H
GREENFIELD, Stanley B
GREENSLADE, Basil
GREER, David
GRIMSDITCH, Herbert B
GULL, C D

HALL, A Rupert
HALSBAND, Robert
HAMILTON, A C ‘Bert’
HARGREAVES, Henry
HARRIS, Bernard
HARRISON, John
HART, R W
HARVEY, Henry
HARVEY, W John
HAYWARD, John
HAZEN, Allen T
HEMLOW, Joyce
HERBERT, Arthur S
HEYWORTH, Peter L
HIBBARD, George R
HOAD, T F
HOENIGER, F David
HONIGMANN, E A J
HORDEN, John
HOUGHTON, Walter
HOUSE, Madeline Edith
HOWSE, A P
HOY, Cyrus
HUDSON, Anne
HUGHES, K
HUNTER-BLAIR, Peter

ISLES, Duncan

JACKSON, William A
JOHNSTON, Arthur
JONES, Emrys L
JONES, H W
JORDAN, John E

KENNEY, Edward J
KER, Neil
KEYNES, Geoffrey
KINSLEY, James
KNAPP, Lewis
KOLB, Gwin
KUNA, Franz

LANG, Cecil
LATHAM, Agnes
LATHAM, Robert C
LAURENCE, Dan H
LeFANU, W R
LEWIS, W S
LONSDALE, Roger
LORIMER, Joyce
LOUGH, J
LOW, Donald A

MacGILLIVRAY, James
MACK, Maynard
MADDISON, Raymond E
MATTHEWS, Geoffrey
MATTHEWS, William
MAURER, Oscar
MAXWELL, James
McCONICA, James
McKEOWN, Elizabeth
McNAMEE, Lawrence F
MIDDENDORF, John H
MILLS, David
MITCHELL, Bruce
MORGAN, Paul
MORRIS, Brian
MOSLEY, James
MUIRHEAD, Arnold
MUNBY, Tim

NEILL, Desmond
NEWTON, J
NICHOLES, Eleanor
NICKALLS, John L
NICOLL, A
NISBIT, Ada
NORTON-SMITH, John
NOSWORTHY, J M
NOVAK, Maximillian E
NOWELL-SMITH, Simon
NUTTALL, Geoffrey

OATES, John C T
OPIE, Peter
OSBORN, James M
OWEN, Dorothy
OWEN, W J B

PADEN, W D
PAGE, Raymond I
PALMER, Bernard
PANTZER, Katharine F
PARK, Ray
PARKES, Malcolm B
PARKS, George B
PARREAUX, Andre
PATRIDES, C A
PEARL, M L
PEARSALL, Derek
PEARSALL, R B
PECKHAM, Morse
PENDRY, Eric D
PÉNIGAULT-DUHET, Paule
PETTIT, Henry
PHILLIPS, M M
PIMLOTT, J
POLLARD, Arthur
POLLARD, Graham
POLLARD, H G
PORTER, H C
POTTLE, Frederick A
POWELL, Lawrence Clark
PRICHARD, M J
PURDY, Richard L

QUAYLE, E S

RATTANSI, P M
RAW, Barbara
RAY, Gordon N
REES, Joan
RICKARD, Peter
RINGLER, W
ROBERTS, Julian
ROBINSON, John
ROBSON, J M
ROGERS, Pat
ROSENBERG, Henry & Sheila
ROY, G Ross
RUSSELL, Norma
RUSSELL-SMITH, Joy

SALMON, Vivian
SANDERS, Charles Richard
SCARLES, Christopher
SCATTERGOOD, V John
SCHOENBAUM, S
SCOTT, A B
SCOUTEN, A H
SEZNEC, Jean
SHARROCK, Roger
SHERBO, Arthur
SIMON, Irene
SIMON, Joan
SKINNER, Quentin
SMALLEY, Donald
SMITH, Albert H
SOUTHAM, B C
SPARROW, John
STANDLEY, Fred L
STANLEY, E G
STANWOOD, Paul G
STATHAM, M H
STEINER, W
STERNFELD, F W
STEVENSON, Lionel
STONE, George Winchester
STOREY, Graham
SUPER, R H
SUTHERLAND, James R
SYFRET, Rosemary
SYLVESTER, Richard S

TAYLOR, Donald S
TAYLOR, Samuel S B
THOMSON, Patricia
TILLOTSON, G
TILLOTSON, Kathleen
TODD, William B
TOWNSEND, Francis G
TRAINER, James

VIETH, David M

WAAL, Esther de
WALL, Stephen
WATSON, Joanna
WEBSTER, Charles
WELCHER, J K
WELLS, Stanley
WHALLEY, George
WHITE, William
WHITELOCK, Dorothy
WHITEMAN, Anne
WILDERS, John
WILES, R M
WILLISON, Ian
WILSON, Edmund
WOODINGS, Robert
WOOF, R S
WOOLF, Cecil
WRIGHT, C E

YOLTON, John W
YONGE, Theodore

ZIMANSKY, Curt A

This subseries is an approximately chronological arrangement of reviews of George Watson's 'Supplement' to 'The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature' and of 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'.

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1960-1969

'Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik' (1960)
'Anglia' (1962)
'A B Bookman’s Weekly' (8 December 1969)
'Times Literary Supplement' (11 December 1969)
'Fraserburgh Herald' (circa 1969-1970)

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1970

'Book Collecting & Library Monthly' (circa February 1970)
'Library Review' (Spring 1970)
'Wilson Library Bulletin' (March 1970)
'Library Journal' (1 April 1970)
'St Luke’s Journal' (June 1970)
'The Private Library' (August 1970)
'Studies in the Novel' (Autumn 1970)
'Bulletin des bibliothèques de France' (November 1970)

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1971

'AUMLA' (first half 1971)
'Journal of English and Germanic Philology' (January 1971)
'Book Review Digest' (May 1971)
'Cithara' (May 1971)
'Different Library Journal' (July 1971)
'Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Comparate' (September 1971)
'Victorian Studies' (September 1971)
'Times Literary Supplement' (15 October 1971)
Letter from J.C. Hilson from the 'Times Literary Supplement', referring to previous review
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1971)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1971) (different from above)

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1972

'Book Review Digest' (January 1972)
'Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America' (first quarter 1972)
'Seventeenth Century News' (Spring 1972)
'Bulletin des bibliothèques de France' (April 1972)
'American Reference Books Annual' (June 1972)
'Philological Quarterly' (July 1972)
'Cithara' (November 1972)
'Times Literary Supplement' (29 December 1972)

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1973

'Library Journal' (15 March 1973)
'Modern Philology' (November 1973)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1973)

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1974

'Daily Telegraph' (August 1974)
'Books & Bookmen' (October 1974)
'Milton Quarterly' (October 1974)
'Age' (November 1974)
'British Book News' (November 1974)
'Catholic Library World' (November 1974)

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1975

'Booklist' (15 January 1975)
'Choice' (January 1975)
'Reference Services Review' (January-March 1975)
'The Library' (June 1975)
'American Book Collector' (March-April 1975)
'Neophilologus' (April 1975)
'Book Review Digest' (May 1975)
'Neue Zurcher Zeitung' (September 1975)
'Comparative Literature Studies' (December 1975)
'Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Comparate' (December 1975)

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1976

'Studies in Burke and His Time' (Spring 1976)
'Études Anglaises' (April 1976)
'Cithara' (May 1976)
'American Reference Book Annual' (June 1976)
'Durham University Journal' (December 1976)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1976)

George Watson's edition, first published 1956, of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's book. This subseries contains corrections, and a note about the corrections, for the 1965 edition.

First published 1970. This subseries contains corrections for the 1981 edition, one piece of correspondence (from George Watson to the editors of 'Modern Language Review'), and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually.

First published 1973. This subseries contains research material, a typescript, cover-design material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopied research material

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Typescript with manuscript corrections

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Cover-design template on translucent paper
Draft of back-cover description with manuscript corrections
Image of final cover

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARKER, Rodney
BAYLEY, John
BEICHMAN, Arnold

CARSON, Peter
CHALONER, W H
COLLINS, Philip A W

DODDS, Elliott

GALLAGHER, Jack
GILMOUR, Robin
GLEESON, Dermot
GORDON, Eleo

HARVEY, Heather
HENNOCK, Ernest Peter
HOLLOWAY, John

JENNINGS, Bernard
JONES, Emrys

KOSELLECK, R

MacDONAGH, Oliver
MILLER, Karl Fergus Connor
MIRFIN, Derick
MONOD, Sylvere

PELLING, Henry
PRICE, James

ROBSON, John M

SCOTT, Peter
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SISSONS, Michael
SKINNER, Quentin
STEINBERG, Jonathan

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REVIEWS

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Envelope labelled '"The English Ideology" (Allen Lane, Feb. 1973)'

First published in the 'Times Literary Supplement', 14 February 1975. This subseries contains the published article, and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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'Times Literary Supplement', 14 February 1975

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BARNET, Sylvan

DEITCH, P L

ROSE, Gillian

SEUREN, Pieter A M

WILLIAMS, Ian M