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This new article discusses the coverage of Greenwood's little-known vegetarianism in 1934 and 1935 by the Vegetarian Society's magazine, the Vegetarian Messenger. It also discusses relationships between vegetarianism and the Left during the thirties, with different views perhaps taken by the official Labour Party and more left-wing organisations such as the ILP (Independent Labour Party).… Continue reading New article: Walter Greenwood – Vegetarian Messenger (1934 and 1935)

Hospital Gift Books were a way of raising funding for specific projects before the founding of the National Health Service in 1948. Greenwood contributed stories to two of these, one in the mid-thirties and one in the mid-forties, just a few years before the NHS was established by the post-war Labour government. This article discusses… Continue reading New Article – Walter Greenwood’s Two Manchester Hospital Stories (1935 and 1945)

Here is a new article about the unique serialisation of the play of Love on the Dole in a Newcastle newspaper in April 1935. See: Love on the Dole in Newcastle – Another Unique Story, or Anyway Play-script (April 1935) Best Chris.

This article (incidentally the seventieth on the Not Just Love on the Dole site) discusses the memories of Greenwood and the play of Love on the Dole recorded on cassettes in the nineteen-sixties (?) by his Manchester contemporary, activist and personality, Paul Graney. See: Paul Graney’s Memories of Lost Early Drafts of the Play of… Continue reading New Article: Memories of Two Lost Drafts of a Play of Love on the Dole

This article is about the forgotten short story sequel to Love on the Dole, which Greenwood published in the periodical John Bull in January 1938. It tells the story of Sally as she pursues her life at Sam Grundy's Welsh holiday home, as his 'housekeeper', maintaining Greenwood's critique of how poverty forces working-people such as… Continue reading New Article: What Sally Did Next