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Bert Pearce (Welsh Communist Party) Papers
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Distribution and sales

The file contains papers relating to the sale of Communist Party literature, correspondence with the South Wales Bookshop Ltd. Cardiff, and 'Book News', lists of books from the distributors, Central Books Ltd. London.

Distribution and sales

The file contains papers relating to the sale of Communist Party literature, with analysis of branch sales, and accounts and correspondence relating to the South Wales Bookshop Ltd. Cardiff, and Central Books Ltd. London, distributors. The file also includes the 'South Wales Book Shop' stamp.

Drafts

The file comprises the 'first draft', drafts divided into named chapters (3 folders), the 'second draft' (2 folders), and the 'final draft'. Also included are notes and annotations by Bert Pearce, and correspondence discussing the revisions.

Edgar Evans' imprisonment

The file includes material relating to Councillor Edgar Evans, or 'Edgar the Ironmonger' as he was known, who served a prison sentence of nine months in 1936 for the part he played in the fight to establish a lodge of the South Wales Miners' Federation at the Taff Merthyr Colliery. There is a photograph of the first group of those committed for trial at Taff Merthyr, and twelve photographs of the demonstration and meeting in support of them. The file also includes greetings to Edgar Evans from Tom Mann, Harry Pollitt, and T. E. Nicholas, 1936, with related correspondence, and Edgar Evans' County Council Election leaflet, 1946.

South Wales Miners' Federation

Education

The file comprises notes and papers relating to Party education, including staff study days, 1959, branch secretaries' school, 1965, central education department syllabus, 1966, and Party education in Wales programme for Wales, 1970.

Education

The file includes papers relating to education programmes for Wales, the theology and ideology committee, weekend and summer schools, Communist Party education packs relating to Poland and to Sam Aaronovitch's The road from Thatcherism : the alternative economic strategy (1981), with a letter from Sam Aaronovitch to Bert Pearce.

Aaronovitch, Sam

Education programmes

The file includes Central Education Department syllabuses, reading and study programmes on various subjects, information notes on Party branches, and papers relating to Party education in the Midlands District.

Communist Party of Great Britain Midlands District

Election arrangements

The file comprises minutes of the Communist Party Great Britain political committee, guidelines for canvassers, Welsh Executive Committee reports on parliamentary constituencies, election statements, adoption of candidates, election leaflets, results, and correspondence, 1934-1987.

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