Frederick Yates Papers

Period (1906-) 1919-1991
Total size   1.24 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Born in Great Britain 1908; died in Great Britain in 1991 or 1992; teacher and author; raised in a working class family in New Mills; became a member of the Labour Party; turned to communism in the 1930s and worked for the Daily Worker; after the Second World War he completed a course at a training college in Exmouth and became a teacher; in the 1950s he was active in the London Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations; turned to anarchism after his break with communism; engaged in literary writing.

Content

Correspondence with his wife Catherine Caroll 1941, 1944, 1947-1948 and n.d., his brother Eric 1935, 1942-1948 and other family members; correspondence with Gwen Bingham 1934-1936, Eric Boyle 1941-1945, Alec Jarwood 1941-1945 and others; personal documents including documents relating to his training as a teacher and some earlier jobs 1917-1957; documents relating to the Daily Worker and the Workmen's Pools 1935-1938, 1940, 1943 and to the London Federation of Parent-Teacher Associations 1946-1959; manuscripts of `The Womb of Time' (written under his pseudonym Theo Yeats) [1983] and `Angels of Doom' n.d.; manuscripts of some articles and poems; notes; some manuscripts by his wife Catherine Yates including `Say not the Struggle' and by Sidney Yates n.d.; pamphlets, clippings and other documentation on the Communist Party of Great Britain and other subjects 1919-1991.