Victor Grayson at Passchendaele by David Clark
David Clark reflects on the centenary of Victor Grayson being wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele.
Read More Victor Grayson at Passchendaele by David ClarkDavid Clark reflects on the centenary of Victor Grayson being wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele.
Read More Victor Grayson at Passchendaele by David ClarkWith the centenary of the disappearance of Victor Grayson approaching there is understandably a great deal of interest. I’ve written features for Tribune and the Morning Star which will be published in September and my new biography of Grayson will be published by Pluto Press (who coincidentally published Reg Groves’ second Grayson biography) early in […]
Read More Publishing NewsThis is a commemorative pamphlet of the debate on Socialism held at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester on February 14th 1908 between Grayson and W. Joynson-Hicks. In the aftermath of the debate Grayson was mocked for appearing significantly better dressed than his Tory opponent. Johnson-Hicks succeeded in being so broad and basic in his attacks […]
Read More Socialism: A Debate…Here’s a new acquisition – a copy of Unsolved magazine from 1984. This issue was dedicated to Victor Grayson and is heavily reliant on Donald McCormick’s Murder by Perfection and explores several of the themes in that book.
Read More Unsolved MagazineThe following are photocopies of pages from ‘Colne Valley Calendar – Tradesman’s Directory, and Diary’ from 1910. Price – One Penny!
Read More Colne Valley Calendar 1910This is an article Derek Forwood submitted to the New Statesman in 1963 about Victor Grayson’s Colne Valley election victory in 1907. In ’63 the Colne Valley was the scene of another by-election, won by Labour’s Pat Duffy. This is also the period when Forwood was in the constituency gathering information on Grayson and interviewing […]
Read More A Socialist Sensation in Colne Valley – Derek Forwood (1963)When Victor Grayson was wounded out of active service after Passchendaele he went to work for the British government’s shadowy National War Aims Committee. Grayson was sent on speaking tours around Britain’s industrial heartlands to help keep up war production and encourage those not in essential industries to enlist, if not already caught by conscription. […]
Read More Germany’s Last Chance by Victor GraysonBelow is a copy of the feature article on Victor Grayson from the Sunday Times Magazine (July 13th 1975). The piece appeared to coincide with the publication of Reg Groves’ second Grayson biography.
Read More Victor Grayson – Sunday Times Magazine 1975Reg Groves was a young member of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) when he first heard the name Victor Grayson mentioned. Older members of Groves’ ILP branch spoke of Grayson as a great orator, a maverick and a lost hero. At that time, in 1924, it was taken for granted that Grayson was alive and […]
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