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An array of photographs documenting the CPGB activity and lifestyles that J.T. Murphy and Molly Murphy were involved in during the 1920s.

Date:1917-1927
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-2-1
Europe Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe 1910s 1920s Photographs Molly Murphy John Murphy

An extensive series of rare photographs and postcards of the Murphys' experience of post-1917 revolutionary Russia. Includes public communist rallies, anniversary celebrations of the revolution and photographs of high ranking...

Date:1917-1927
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-2-2
Europe Asia Politics and Social Movements Culture and Society Eastern Europe 1910s 1920s Soviet Asia Leon Trotsky Photographs Molly Murphy John Murphy

A small number of postcards relating to the German Revolution of 1920, including a portrait of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) leader Ernst Thälmann.

Date:1920-1920
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-2-3
Europe Politics and Social Movements Western Europe Culture and Society Central Europe 1920s Ernst Thälmann Postcards

This document details the administrative process in Molly Murphy applying to volunteer as a nurse during the Spanish Civil War via the Spanish Medical Aid Committee. Additionally, through a plethora...

Date:1936-1939
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-1
War, Security, and Intelligence Europe Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe Medicine 1930s Southern Europe Photographs Spanish Medical Aid Committee Molly Murphy Correspondence

A prospective autobiography written by Molly Murphy in the 1960s. She looks back and sketches the details of her life, from starting nursing and meeting CPGB member John Murphy, all...

Date:1960-1964
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-2
War, Security, and Intelligence Europe Asia Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe Medicine 1960s Soviet Asia Southern Europe Molly Murphy John Murphy Vladimir Lenin Memoirs Books

Photographs and propaganda postcards procured by Molly Murphy during her time in Spain as a nurse. This includes photographs of the Spanish Medical Aid Unit and the tough and disturbing...

Date:1936-1939
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-3
War, Security, and Intelligence Europe Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe Culture and Society 1930s Southern Europe Photographs Molly Murphy Postcards

Correspondence between J.T. Murphy and high ranking CPGB officials such as Harry Pollitt that show the disagreement and surrounding dialogue that led to J.T. Murphy’s expulsion from the CPGB in...

Date:1932-1932
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-4
Europe Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe 1930s Harry Pollitt John Murphy Print Media Correspondence

Articles and draft novel typescripts written by J.T. Murphy regarding John Boynton Priestley, who was a left-wing novelist and playwright from Yorkshire. 1930-1949.

Date:1930-1949
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-5
Europe Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe Culture and Society 1940s 1930s Notes John Murphy John Boynton Priestley Print Media

In their later lives, J.T. Murphy and Earl Browder, two former titans of their respective communist parties, bonded over their shared experience of being branded ‘revisionists'. These letters and other...

Date:1960-1964
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-6
Europe North America Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe 1960s The Americas John Murphy Communist Party of the United States of America Earl Browder Correspondence

A prospective draft plan of a book written by J.T. Murphy, which discusses the internal politics and power struggle of the Soviet Union, European great power politics and imperialism in...

Date:1950-1964
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-7
International Relations Europe Colonialism and Empire Politics and Social Movements Western Europe Eastern Europe 1950s 1960s John Murphy Books

Two monographs written by J.T. Murphy under the titles Preliminary Considerations and The Premise of All Thought about socialist politics and Marxism. Dates unknown.

Date:1925-1964
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-8
Europe Politics and Social Movements Philosophy and Religion Western Europe 1940s Eastern Europe 1950s 1920s 1930s 1960s John Murphy Print Media

A host of material relating to J.T. Murphy’s radical political activity from the 1920s to the 1960s. Covered in this are materials from his arrest and imprisonment in 1925, proof...

Date:1925-1964
Contributor:The Communist Heritage Trust
Identifier:cp-ind-murp-1-9
Europe Asia Politics and Social Movements Northern Europe Western Europe 1940s Eastern Europe 1950s 1920s 1930s 1960s Soviet Asia John Murphy Pravda Print Media Correspondence Flyers/Posters