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Author : Constance Bantman
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To paraphrase Kropotkin, the history of anarchism does not reside in books — at least as far as England is concerned. Nevertheless two books must be singled out for special mention even though the first is hostile to anarchism and the second never seems to have heard of it. These are E.P. Thompson’s William Morris and Walter Kendall’s The Revolutionary Movement in Britain. E.P. Thompson’s book exhaustively covers the Socialist League period and Morris’s relationship with the anarchists and gives a more detailed picture of the early socialist movement than I had space to do. Outside these areas, particularly when he is dealing with anarchists, he should be treated with caution. Walter Kendall’s book is only about a part of the revolutionary movement in Britain but gives a fact-packed summary of some of the developments on the left before and during the Syndicalist Revolt and is particularly interesting in his detailed accounts of the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He ignores the anarchist contribution completely. But both books deserve respect because they have gone to the primary sources and in their central concerns have demythologized important parts of the history of the left. The books mentioned below are only some of the books I have looked at during the writing of the present work. A few other titles will be found in the footnotes. The books here listed, however, are those where more than a paragraph or even only a sentence is of interest to would-be historians of anarchism. The bulk of the information for this book has come from a close examination of periodicals and the private papers of anarchists, but the following works do repay examination.
ALDRED, G.A., Dogmas Discarded, Glasgow, 1940.
______. No Traitor’s Gait!, Glasgow. Issued in approximately monthly parts from 1956.
______. Rex v. Aldred, Glasgow, 1948.
ALLEN, E.J.B., Revolutionary Unionism, Huddersfield, 1909.
CALDER-MARSHALL, A., Lewd, Blasphemous and Obscene, London, 1972.
CARLSON, A., German Anarchism, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1972.
CARPENTER, E., My Days and Dreams, London, 1916.
CLYNES, J.R., Memoirs, London, 1937.
COATES, K. and TOPHAM, T., Workers’ Control, London, 1970.
CRAIK, W.W., Central Labor College, London, 1964.
Documents of the First International, 4 vols., London/Moscow, 1964.
FISHMAN, W.J., East End Jewish Radicals, London, 1975.
FOX, A., A History of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, Oxford, 1958.
FOX, R.M., Smoky Crusade, London, 1937.
FREEMANTLE, A., This Little Band of Prophets, New York, 1960.
GALLAGHER, W., Revolt on the Clyde, London, 1949.
GLASIER, J.B., William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement, London, 1921.
GOLDMAN, E., Living My Life, London, 1932.
HART, W.C., Confessions of an Anarchist, London, 1906.
HENDERSON, P. (ed.), Letters of William Morris, London, 1950.
HULSE, J.W., Revolutionists in London, Oxford, 1970.
John E. Williams and the Early History of the S.D.F., London, 1886.
KENDALL, W., The Revolutionary Movement in Britain, London, 1969.
KROPOTKIN, P., Memoirs of a Revolutionist, London, 1908.
LATOUCHE, P., Anarchy!, London, 1908.
LEE, H.W. and ARCHBOLD, E., Social Democracy in Britain, London, 1935.
LONGONI, J.C., Four Patients of Dr Deibler, London, 1970.
MANN, T., Tom Mann’s Memoirs, London, 1923.
MARX, K. and ENGELS, F., Selected Correspondence, London, 1934.
NETTLAU, M., Anarchisten and Sozial-Revolutionäre, Berlin, 1931.
NEVINSON, H.W., Fire of Life, London, 1935.
NICOLL, D.J., The Ghosts of Chelmsford Jail, Sheffield, 1897.
______. The Greenwich Mystery, Sheffield, 1897.
______. Letters From the Dead, London, 1898.
______. The Walsall Anarchists, London, 1894.
NOMAD, M., Dreamers, Dynamiters and Demagogues, New York, 1964.
PATON, J., Proletarian Pilgrimage, London, 1936.
ROCKER, R., The London Years, London, 1956.
SHADWELL, A., The Revolutionary Movement in Britain, London, 1921.
SHIPLEY, S., Club Life and Socialism in Mid-Victorian London, London, 1971.
SWEENY, J., At Scotland Yard, London, 1905.
TAYLOR, J., Self-Help to Glamour: The Working Men’s Clubs 1860–1972, London, 1972.
THOMPSON, B., Queer People, London, 1922.
THOMPSON, E.P., William Morris, London, 1955.
WOODCOCK, G. and AVACUMOVIC, I., The Anarchist Prince, London, 1950.
See also the bibliography in Kendall and Nettlau’s Bibliographie de l’Anarchie, Brussels, 1897, if a wider range of titles of a more general or more theoretical bent is required.
The periodicals whose files I have consulted are: Alarm, Anarchist, Anarchist (Sheffield), Black Flag, Commonweal, Daily Herald, Freedom, Freiheit, Herald of Revolt, Industrialist, Industrial Syndicalist, Islington Gazette, Justice, Labor Annual, Liberty (Boston), Liberty (London), Reynold’s News, Sheffield Anarchist, Shop Assistant, Solidarity, Spur, Times, Torch, Voice of Labor, War Commentary, Weekly Times and Echo, Workers’ Dreadnought.
Despite some lucid periods, he steadily declined into the condition that Guy Aldred found him in some time after 1907: “The paper stopped and Nicoll sold sheets of paper, bearing ridiculous crayon scrawls. He was unable to work and met comrades with a cracked laugh, a smile that horrified, and a mysterious manner. His talk was always about spies. He gained a precarious living from small sums given to him by comrades who recalled his past services to the movement or had learned of them. He became a kind of tradition and menace combined” (Aldred, Dogmas Discarded, II, Glasgow, 1940, p. 68). He died in St Pancras workhouse in 1919.
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