Harold Joseph Laski Papers
Period
1910-1952
Total size
0.4 m.
Consultation
Not restricted
Repository
Internationaal
Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
Biography
Born in Manchester 1893, died in London 1950; political theorist, Labour Party leader; studied history at Oxford University; lectured at McGill University, Montreal 1914-1916 and at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts until 1920; from then until his death attached to the London School of Economics and Political Science, from 1926 professor of political sciences; frequently visited the USA; member of the Executive Committee of the Fabian Society 1921-1936 and of the Labour Party 1936-1949; served in several government committees; his Marxist approach to history in `The American Democracy' 1948 provoked controversies.
Content
Part of his papers: some correspondence 1910-1950, with G.B. Shaw 1945-1947, Graham Wallas c. 1919-1921, Beatrice and Sidney Webb 1920-1946, H.G. Wells c. 1921-1941 and others; mostly typed manuscripts of books and articles, including `A Grammar of Politics' 1925, `Parliamentary Government in England'. NB. Part of his papers at Hull University Library and Syracuse University Library, New York.
Arrangement
This is only a limited collection, chiefly consisting of manuscripts and typescripts of published books and articles. There are only three folders of correspondence. According to oral information from the keeper of manuscripts of the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics another part of Harold Laski's papers is at Hull University. The original order of the collection has been retained, with the exception that occasionally typescripts and manuscripts of articles have been put together, while the letters have been arranged in alphabetical and chronological order.
Processing information
Inventory made by M.W.H. Schreuder in 1984
Related material
At Hull University Library and Syracuse University Library, New York
INVENTORY
A. MANUSCRIPTS AND TYPESCRIPTS OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES
- 18 - 21
- Parliamentary government in England. - ms. pp. 1 - 303; ch. VII pp. 1 - 26; ch. VIII pp. 1 - 25.
- 24.2
-
Is a Third World War
inevitable?
- ms. 15 p..
[pencilled addition "last article written 2 days before he died - 22 March 1950, published in Horizon"]
- 24.3
-
no title ["None of us,
I think, will ever forget that deep sense of hope at long last fulfilled that
we felt on July 20th, 1945..."].
- ms 14 p..
[Labour Party and socialist principles]
B. CORRESPONDENCE
- 1
-
Letters to Laski from:
- 27.1
- Wallas, Graham. 14-4-1919, 28-9-1919, 3-12-1919, 15-4-1920, 19-5-1920, 20-9-1920, 19-4-1921 (incompl.), 2 n.d. (1 incompl.)
- 27.2
- Webb, Beatrice. 24-1-1928, 24-1-1935, 26-2-1935, 12-3-1935, 30-9-1936, 10-11-1936, 29-12-1942, 7-1-1943, Nov. 18 ?, 1 n.d.