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Coppice Camp
Coppice camp also mentioned in: https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/69/%E2%80%98an-enormous-sense-of-solidarity%E2%80%99

There were also party camps in Dyffryn Ardudwy and... a castle in Wales?

(re)founding of the CPB
First party card issued to Andrew Rothstein. Look this up in 'History, Heritage and Tradition in Contemporary British Politics: Past Politics and Present Histories' - when possible (after lockdown)

Potentially interesting thesis to order https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.644528 cf. Communists and British Society 1920-1991

YCL and the apprenticeship movement

YCL and mongolia https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-1931-1_2

Abe Lazarus
Re-read red shirts and black for account of lazarus breaking up BUF meeting in Oxford - available in Oxfordshire Libraries Collection see also Frank Pakenham's biography born to believe

add quote from olive gibbs about his speaking ability in 'our olive' an autobiography of olive gibbs

Search through Oxfordshire Local History Centre archive... Scan his 1937/8 election poster? There's also a poem about him in the Exell papers. Also oral histories OXOHA/LT/894 OXOHA/OT/129

Might also want to check out this pamphlet Privilege and ideology, action against reaction in Oxford university

Oxford Bus strike?

Also check out the TV drama A Vote for Hitler Broadcast on Channel 4 2 October 1988 BFI id 344928 could perhaps view it at the Library of Birmingham BFI mediatheque? Note that Lazarus was quite involved in the by-election...

Might be more details about this in book The Communist Party of Great Britain since 1920

Page 87 of this https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/files/135414935/Communists_text_4.0.pdf

personal history here, maybe back up with Geoff Andrews article https://museumofoxford.org/abe-lazarus-and-oxford

WFDY
Organisation listed in the 'Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications' by the CIA.

Targeted by the IRD https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47571253

'anti-festival operations' https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0888325420926606

WFDY as a soviet 'front' organisation 10.1080/10758216.2020.1753082

WFDY also listed as a soviet front organisation here pg. 22

CIA fears about WFDY listed here page 32.

Peter Gowan

 * Merge external links into main article as references.
 * Clip of him talking on KPFA radio.

YCL
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fn42

This book - https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463726634/growing-up-communist-in-the-netherlands-and-britain

Some more historical membership figures in this thesis https://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7572/1/Weesjes%2C_Elke_Marloes.pdf