Records of Robin Page Arnot

Dates:  
1880-1979

Related Material

Related Material:

Papers of Howard Hill, Communist [U DHH]

Archives of Communist Party of Great Britain, Hull branch [U DCP]

Other repositories:

Archives of Communist Party of Great Britain, Labour History Archive and Study Centre, Peoples' History Museum [GB 0394]

South Wales Coalfield Collection, University of Wales: Swansea [GB 0217]

Gallacher Memorial Library, Glasgow Caledonian University Archives [GB 1847]

Publication Notes:
By Arnot:
With GDH Cole, Trade unionism on the railways: its history and problems (London; Labour Research Department, 1917)
The politics of oil: an example of imperialist monopoly (London; Labour Publishing Co., 1924)
The General Strike, May 1926: its origin and history (London; Labour Research Department, 1926)
Twenty years: the policy of the Communist Party of Great Britain from its foundation, July 31st 1920 (London; Lawrence & Wishart, 1940)
A history of the Miners Federation of Great Britain (5 vols.) (London; Allen & Unwin, 1949-79)
A history of the Scottish miners from earliest times (London; Allen & Unwin, 1955)
William Morris: the man and the myth (London; Lawrence & Wishart, 1964)
South Wales miners (London; Allen & Unwin, 1967)
The impact of the Russian Revolution in Britain (London; Lawrence & Wishart, 1967)

About Arnot:
Anthony Howe, '"The Past is Ours": The Political Usage of English History by the British Communist Party, and the Role of Dona Torr in the Creation of its Historians' Group, 1930-56' (PhD thesis, University of Sydney, 2004)
Antony Howe, ‘Arnot, Robert Page (1890–1986)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40281, accessed 30 Nov 2006]
A Mason, The General Strike in the North East (Hull; University of Hull Publications, 1970)
John Saville, 'Obituary: Robin Page Arnot (1890-1986)', in Bulletin of the Society for the Study of Labour History, vol.51, no.3, 1986, pp1-4