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Many apologies - I forgot in yesterday's post to include a link to the new page on the Complete Works of Walter Greenwood. Here it is!: https://waltergreenwoodnotjustloveonthedole.com/the-complete-works-of-walter-greenwood-1933-1967-a-gallery/ Best Chris.

I've added this page to give an overview of everything Greenwood published between 1933 and 1967. It is intended to be very much a visual experience - each work is represented by the dust wrapper or cover design of the first edition of each novel, play, or non-fiction work. See: The Complete Works of Walter… Continue reading New Page: The Complete Works of Walter Greenwood – a Gallery

The remarkable People's Palace, a centre of democratic education and entertainment, put on a production of Greenwood and Gow's play as soon as it was released for repertory company production in 1938. This article features the programme and flyers the People's Palace designed and distributed in order to bring in as wide an audience as… Continue reading New article: Love on the Dole at the People’s Palace (Mile End Road, London E.1, 1938)

Within a month of the play of Love on the Dole opening at the Garrick Theatre in London, Greenwood was interviewed about the origins of the story by the then celebrity journalist and drama critic Hannen Swaffer. Swaffer quite correctly saw the play as an anti-National Government work, but also presented its working-class author (the… Continue reading New Article: The First Press interview with Greenwood, February, 1935

From 1964 till 2004, there was a practical monument to Greenwood's work in exposing the appalling living conditions he and thousands of others endured in Salford in the first half of the twentieth century: the high-rise building Walter Greenwood Court, built to replace the slums of Hanky Park. In its turn, what seemed a great… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood Court