I usually set out on this site to write new and (I hope) intriguing pieces on Walter Greenwood, his work, contemporaries, and context. As a starting principle the majority of this work is intended to be research which is original, significant and rigorous. The ambitions of this new piece are more modest: it is meant… Continue reading New Item: What Happens in Love on the Dole – Plot Summaries and Other Useful Devices
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New Article: the Film Music for Love on the Dole by Richard Addinsell, probably orchestrated by Roy Douglas (1941)
Richard Addinsell became very famous for his 'Warsaw Concerto' theme, a key element in the wartime film Dangerous Moonlight (1941). While he was working on that he was also working on the themes for the film of Love on the Dole. While a few notices did praise the music for Love on the Dole, it… Continue reading New Article: the Film Music for Love on the Dole by Richard Addinsell, probably orchestrated by Roy Douglas (1941)
New Article: the Value of Love on the Dole – Short-term or Long-term?
The Times in 1935 thought the play was powerful, but only of interest while the Depression lasted, and the Crewe Chronicle in 1967 asserted that Love on the Dole was no longer of any interest now that unemployment was a thing of the past (a little over-optimistic there perhaps?). In 1933 the Times Literary Supplement… Continue reading New Article: the Value of Love on the Dole – Short-term or Long-term?
New Article: Walter Greenwood’s People’s War Manifesto (August 1941)
On 7 August 1941 the sister papers the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday Pictorial each published an identical article by Greenwood in which he argued that the War was being fought not just to defeat Nazi Germany but also to defeat the 'social evils' of the nineteen-thirties and to bring into being a more equal… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s People’s War Manifesto (August 1941)
New Article: Walter Greenwood’s Workhouse Memories (1933-1967)
The English Workhouse system dated back in a recognisable form to the seventeenth century, but is probably most associated with the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries, including through Dickens' critical portrayal in Oliver Twist (serial 1837-8, novel 1839). However, though modified the workhouse system in many respects was still in being during the first three decades of… Continue reading New Article: Walter Greenwood’s Workhouse Memories (1933-1967)
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 