| 1 | S. Samuels, 'The Left Book Club', in W. Laqueur and G. Mosse (eds.), The Left-wing Intellectuals Between the Wars, 1919-1939. New York: Harper and Row, 1966, p.65 |
| 2 | B. Pimlott, Labour and the Left in the 1930s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977, p.155 |
| 3 | V. Gollancz, quoted in S. Hodges, Gollancz. The Story of a Publishing House 1928-1978. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1978, p.118 |
| 4 | J. Lewis, The Left Book Club. An Historical Record. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1970, pp.13-14 |
| 5 | Left Book Club. 'Please' leaflet, 1936. H. O. Roth. Private collection |
| 6 | LBC leaflets. Roth collection |
| 7 | Gollancz, editorial, Left News, Nov. 1938 |
| 8 | P.B.F., The Queen's Hall Meeting', Tomorrow, 2 Mar. 1938 (v.4, n.9), pp.283, 285 |
| 9 | LBC leaflet, 1938. Roth collection |
| 10 | LBC leaflet, [nd]. Roth collection; Pimlott, Labour and the Left p.159 |
| 11 | Samuels, 'The Left Book Club', p.76 |
| 12 | Ibid.,p.76;Lewis, TheLeftBookClub,p.27
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| 13 | Quoted in ibid., p.78 |
| 14 | F. Cook, 'National Rally of Left Book Club', Tomorrow, 2 Mar. 1938 (v.4, n.9), p.283 |
| 15 | Samuels, 'The Left Book Club', p.86 |
| 16 | C. F. Saunders, 'The Left Book Club', Tomorrow, 21 June 1939 (v.5, n.17), p.529 |
| 17 | J. Paul. Interview with author, 23 Aug. 1985; P. W. Day, 'Blackwood Paul', Comment, 23, May 1965, pp.10-11 |
| 18 | The Left Book Club. Conference Decisions', Tomorrow, 26 Apr. 1939 (v.5, n.13), p.412; Left BookClub (Wellington group). Second annual report, 21 Feb. 1940. C.F. Saunders Papers. Jack Locke Deposit: item 10. University of Canterbury Library. Membership figures of LBC groups have also been derived from Tomorrow, 15 Mar. 1939 (v.5, n.10), p.316; reports in the Left News; Report of National Committee New Zealand Left Book Club Association fortheyear 1939-40. Locke Deposit: 10. See Appendix 1 for membership figures of other LBC groups in New Zealand. |
| 19 | Proposed Rules of the New Zealand Association ofLeft Book Clubs, [1939]. Roth collection |
| 20 | Amendments to Original Draft Constitution submitted by the Dunedin Left Book Club Group, [1939]. Roth collection |
| 21 | V. Christensen, secretary, Manawatu LBC group, correspondence, Manawatu Evening Standard 5 Dec. 1939, p.6 |
| 22 | Samuels, 'The Left Book Club', p.65 |
| 23 | Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40: Summary of Group Reports, p.2 |
| 24 | S.M.Skudder, "'Bringing It Home". New Zealand Responses to the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939'. DPhil thesis, Waikato University, 1986, p.381. Information about Saunders is also derived from Saunders Papers. Locke Deposit: 10; New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with the USSR. Christchurch Branch. Executive minutes and other papers. H. W. Rhodes. Private collection; Rhodes. Interview with author, 4 June 1985 |
| 25 | Saunders, The Left Book Club', p.529 |
| 26 | 'The Left Book Club. Conference Decisions', p.412; remits for first LBC national conference, April 1939. Roth collection |
| 27 | Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40: Remits, p.[4] |
| 28 |
Workers' Weekly, 25 Nov. 1938, p.8; Left News, Oct. 1938, p.1019; Report of Na-
page 254
tional Committee . . . 1939-40; People's Voice, 18 Aug. 1939, p.8; The Left Book Club. Conference Decisions'; People's Voice, 8 Dec. 1939, p.8 |
| 29 | See below, pp. 83-4 |
| 30 |
Tomorrow, 21 Dec. 1938 (v.5, n.4), p.115; Workers' Weekly, 5 Nov. 1937, p.3; Left News, Dec. 1938, p.1100; programme, Till the Day I Die, Dec. 1937. Locke Deposit: 10; Left Book Club (Christchurch group). Notice of annual general meeting, 8 Dec. 193?. Ibid. |
| 31 |
EveningStar, 3 Sept. 1938, p.13; Otago Daily Times, 3 Sept. 1938, p.19,17 July 1939, p.11. The Dunedin group's dramatic productions were also reported in Tomorrow, 1 Feb. 1939 (v.5, n.7), p.210; People's Voice, 18 Aug. 1939, p.8; Left News, Oct. 1938, p.1018 |
| 32 | Rhodes interview. The inaugural meeting of the Christchurch group was reported in Workers' Weekly, 30 July 1937, p.4 |
| 33 |
Left News, Dec. 1938, p.uoo; Workers' Weekly, 5 Nov. 1937, p.3 |
| 34 | Rhodes interview |
| 35 | Ibid. |
| 36 |
Left News, Oct. 1938, p.1018; G. H. Brown, Colin McCahotr. Artist. Wellington: A.H. and A. W. Reed, 1984, p.13; E. Olssen, A History ofOtago. Dunedin: John McIndoe, 1984, p.192; R. Kennedy. Interview with author, 26 Jan. 1987; P. and W. Powell. Interview with author, 22 Oct. 1989 |
| 37 |
Left News, Oct. 1938, p.1019 |
| 38 | Ibid., Feb. 1939, p.1171; Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40: Summary of Group Reports, p.4 |
| 39 |
Left News, Sept. 1938, p.980 |
| 40 | AJ. Redfern to C. F. Saunders, 25 May 1939. Locke Deposit: 10 |
| 41 | J. Locke. Interview with author, 6 June 1985 |
| 42 | LBC (Wellington group), second annual report; LBC (Wellington group). Bulletin No.1, 31 May 1939. Locke Deposit: 10; A. R. Perry. Interview with author, 15 Oct. 1985; A,M. Finlay. Interview with author, 5 Sept. 1985; E. Locke. Interview with author, 6 June 1985 |
| 43 | LBC (Wellington group), second annual report, p.2 |
| 44 | Finlay interview |
| 45 |
Workers' Weekly, 5 Nov. 1937, p.3, 9 Dec. 1938, p.4; LBC (Wellington group), second annual report; Left News, Aug. 1939 |
| 46 |
Left News, Oct. 1938, p.1019 |
| 47 | Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40: Summary of Group Reports, pp.3-4 |
| 48 | Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40, p.5 |
| 49 |
Mass Observation (1937), quoted in S. Laing, 'Presenting "Things as They Are": John Somerfield's May Day and Mass Observation', in F. Gloversmith (ed.), Class Culture and Social Change. A New View of the 1930s. Sussex: Harvester Press, 1980, pp.153, 156 |
| 50 | LBC (Wellington group), second annual report, pp.2-3 |
| 51 | 'Mass Observation. NZ Organisation Formed', Workers'Weekly, 5 May 1939, p.4 |
| 52 | 'Group Observation', Salient, 21 June 1939 (v.2, n.11), p.3 |
| 53 | Ibid. |
| 54 |
Tomorrow, 20 Nov. 1935 (v.2, n.4), p.16, 15 Apr. 1936 (v.2, n.20), p.26; J. H. Robb, The Life and Death of Official Social Research in New Zealand 1956-1940. Occasional Papers in Sociology and Social Work, 7. Wellington: Department of Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington, 1987 |
| 55 | Finlay interview |
| 56 |
Tomorrow, 26 May 1937 (v.3, n.15), p.452 |
| 57 |
Statutory Regulations, 1939, p.569 |
| 58 | Ibid., 1940, p.63 |
| 59 | The principal source for this discussion of wartime censorship is N. M. Taylor, The New Zealand People at War: The Home Front. Wellington: Historical Publications Branch, Department of Internal Affairs/ Government Printer, 1986, pp.997-1013 |
| 60 | 'Censorship!', Union Record 15 Jan. 1941 (v.1, n.19), p.5 |
| 61 |
Co-operative Book News, May 1942 (v.1, n.5), p.5 |
| 62 | Quoted in Taylor, The Home Front, p.1007page 255 |
| 63 | 'What is the Left Book Club?', Tomorrow, 3 Apr. 1940 (v.6, n.11), p.351 |
| 64 | 'An Invitation', [nd]. Locke Deposit: 10 |
| 65 | J.W.D. Hall to J. A. McCullough, 24 Oct. 1939. Roth collection |
| 66 |
Workers'Weekly, 5 Nov. 1937, p.3, 9 Dec. 1938, p.4 |
| 67 | 'What is the Left Book Club?' |
| 68 |
Workers' Weekly, 28 Apr. 1939, p.4; 'Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40', p.5 |
| 69 |
Manawatu Evening Standard, 12 Dec. 1939, p.6 |
| 70 | Saunders, 'The Left Book Club'; Manawatu Evening Standard, 13 Dec. 1939, p.2 |
| 71 | Ibid., 7 Dec. 1939, p.8, 14 Dec. 1939, p.10, 8 Dec. 1939, p.2 |
| 72 | Saunders, 'The Left Book Club' |
| 73 | LBC (Wellington group). Bulletin No.1 |
| 74 | 'What is the Left Book Club?' |
| 75 | Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40: Summary of Group Reports, p.2 |
| 76 |
Workers' Weekly, 9 Dec. 1938, p.4 |
| 77 | Samuels, 'The Left Book Club', p.83 |
| 78 | Ibid., p.81 |
| 79 | Report of National Committee . . . 1939-40, p.6 |
| 80 | 'Announcing the New Left Book Club', 1949. Roth collection |
| 81 | A. Jackson-Thomas to secretary, Wellington Co-operative Book Society, 19 Jan. 1949. Wellington Co-operative Book Society Ltd. Papers, 1938-1970. Ms Papers 1122: folder 25. Alexander Turnbull Library |
| 82 | WCBS secretary to A. Jackson-Thomas, 14 Jan. 1949. WCBS Papers: 25 |
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