The collection includes files of photocopied documents relating to resolutions, statements and correspondence of the Revolutionary Socialist League, and photocopied records of the Workers' International League, the Revolutionary Communist Party, as well as a number of other parties.
Papers of Denzil Dean Harber
This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre
- Reference
- GB 50 U DDH
- Dates of Creation
- 1932-1946
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 2 boxes
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Denzil Harber was born at 25 Fairmile Avenue, Streatham, on 25 Jan 1909. He was active in British Trotskyist politics in the 1930s and 1940s, firstly in the Militant Group. He later became secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist League and then a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Denzil Harber died at the age of 55 on 31 Aug 1966.
Arrangement
U DDH/1 Various parties, 1932-1938
U DDH/2-12 Revolutionary Socialist League, 1939-1941
U DDH/13 Workers' International League, 1938-1942
U DDH/14 Revolutionary Communist Party, 1944-1946
Access Information
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Other Finding Aids
Entry in Modern political papers subject guide
Conditions Governing Use
Julian Harber
Custodial History
Copied with the permission of Julian Harber
Location of Originals
MSS.151, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick [GB 0152]
Bibliography
- John Archer, Trotskyism in Britain 1931-37 (PhD Thesis, Central London Polytechnic, 1979)
- Reginald Groves, The Balham Group: how British Trotskyism began (Pluto Press Ltd, 1974)