Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History.
A member of the Communist Party for thirty‐four years, and a key participant in the post‐War Communist Party Historians' Group, Lionel Munby (1918–2009) is not among that Group's best‐known historians. Yet arguably he was more typical of its membership and outlook. A prolific author, an extra‐mural...
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