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I don't know when this was made, but someone, somewhere, expended considerable creativity on it, suggesting they really valued their copy of Greenwood's play. Love on the Dole – a Home-made Dust-wrapper Best Chris.

This article explores the story of Edward A. Hibbitt, a working-class Salford novelist who was helped get into print by Greenwood and the Daily Herald journalist and friend of Greenwood's, Hannen Swaffer. A Second Walter Greenwood? Edward A. Hibbitt, Salford novelist

Greenwood is very much associated with the Depression and the nineteen-thirties, but his writing career went on into the nineteen-seventies. In a piece of forgotten writing of his from 1970, I have recently found him talking about the threat of nuclear war as the  contemporary equivalent of economic collapse and unemployment. See: Walter Greenwood and the… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood and the Delta Bombers

The story of Walter Greenwood's tie connects up with a few other parts of his story - including his collaboration on the play of Love on the Dole with Ronald Gow, his career as a politician and his visit to Gracie Fields villa on Capri.  The grand climax of the article is an image of… Continue reading New article on Walter Greenwood’s Tie

This is really the beginning of an answer to a question I was asked about whether the success of Love on the Dole  took Greenwood from being on the dole to being a millionaire. I don't think so, but some evidence I've recently found suggests that he did make a lot of money from the… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s Finances and Love on the Dole