• World War and was one of the founders of the Common Wealth Party. Tom Wintringham was born 1898 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire. He was educated at Gresham's...
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  • politician) (1867–1921), British Liberal Member of Parliament 1920–1921 Tom Wintringham (1898–1949), British soldier, military historian, journalist, poet...
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  • Civil War, and Bowler met Tom Wintringham, representative of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in the city. Wintringham taught Bowler journalism...
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  • Tom Wintringham made especially extensive use of the term "Blimps" to refer to this type of military officer, Orwell in his articles and Wintringham in...
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  • Margaret Tom Wintringham (1898–1949), British soldier, politician and writer Wintringham School, Academy in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England, named after Tom HMS...
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  • International Brigade as an officer in the British Battalion, under Tom Wintringham, from 1937. The brigade fought against the rightist Falangists. He...
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    and its 'star' writers J.B. Priestley and Spanish Civil War veteran Tom Wintringham; and the neo-Christian Forward March movement led by Liberal Party...
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  • and Dominion volunteers. A number of British volunteers, including Tom Wintringham, David Marshall and Ramona and Nat Cohen, and Scots nurse Annie Murray...
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    set fire with toxic gas or petrol-soaked blankets with some success. Tom Wintringham, a veteran of the International Brigades, later publicised his recommended...
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    Sir Edward Hulton, allowed writer and military journalist Captain Tom Wintringham to establish the first Home Guard training school (which Hulton sponsored)...
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    origins of the Second World War Home Guard can be traced to Captain Tom Wintringham, who returned from the Spanish Civil War and wrote a book entitled...
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  • while the paper's assistant editor and manager was Tom Wintringham, and was printed at Wintringham's Unity Press. In January 1934, the Daily Worker's offices...
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  • respect to the Western and North American warfare. During World War II, Tom Wintringham proposed six chronological periods, which alternate the dominance between...
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  • Calder Peter Thorneycroft Richard Titmuss H. G. Wells Kitty Wintringham Tom Wintringham Konni Zilliacus In May 1942 the committee published a Nine Point...
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    first proposed in August 1936 by British writer and military theorist Tom Wintringham who had already travelled to Spain, but the idea was not formally raised...
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  • but also figures as diverse as Jorge Luis Borges, Bertrand Russell, Tom Wintringham, Virginia Woolf, and Winston Churchill. Ruddick, Nicholas, "Science...
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    liberal and progressive.[citation needed] It had already produced Tom Wintringham (1898–1949), a Marxist military historian, journalist, author and one...
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  • Pollitt, William Rust, R. Page Arnot, Tom Bell, Ernest Cant, Arthur MacManus, J. T. Murphy and Tom Wintringham. The defendants were charged with "conspiring...
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  • of Great Britain by a friend of the family, the military historian Tom Wintringham, while at Oriel; a member from 1924 to 1926. Taylor broke with the...
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    Spender—and also his close friend Tom Wintringham and Wintringham's ally, the emerging George Orwell. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane...
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  • Purcell, Hugh & Smith, Phyll (2012): The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949 Shapira, Anita et al. (2014): The Nation State and Immigration...
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    Wesker Harry Wicks Ellen Wilkinson Raymond Williams Alan Winnington Tom Wintringham Robert Wyatt "Tankie" is a pejorative term referring to those members...
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    filmmaker Carl Marzani, Communist leader Claud Cockburn, Marxist historian Tom Wintringham, and journalist Giles Romilly. The six volunteers who died during the...
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    the Jersey family and were used during World War II as the home for Tom Wintringham's Home Guard training school. They are now National Trust property....
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    were Clive Branson, John Cornford, Charles Donnelly, Alex McDade and Tom Wintringham. On the Nationalist side, the most famous English-language poet of...
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    Whitgift (1530–1604), Archbishop of Canterbury under Queen Elizabeth I Tom Wintringham (1898–1949, communist politician and military historian Patrick Wymark...
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    Votes % ±% Conservative Oliver Lyttelton 19,456 57.4 Common Wealth Tom Wintringham 14,435 42.6 N/A Majority 5,021 14.8 Turnout 33,891 69.2 Registered...
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    by Tom Wintringham, both published during the war and largely attempting to discredit Tory MPs as appeasers and war profiteers. The Wintringham volume...
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    Oxford University Labour Club, where he met activist fellow activist Tom Wintringham. In 1919 Fox became active in the effort to halt British blockade and...
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    almost every officer, including the battalion commissar and Captain Tom Wintringham, in gaining and then holding and finally retreating from a position...
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