With the kind help and permission of Stewart Nicholls, the director of the 1995 Woking revival, I've now been able to add further material to this article, including the original Nottingham Playhouse Programme and music clips featuring six key songs from the 1995 production CD. Readers might therefore like to revisit the piece which can… Continue reading Music Clips added to Love on the Dole: the Musical (1970)
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New Article: Down and Out with Orwell and Greenwood (1933; 1939)
This is an article comparing Orwell's account of being Down and Out in Paris and London in his first published book with Greenwood's shorter report on being down and out in London in his 1939 documentary book, How the Other Man Lives. I thought it would be a short article when I started, but it… Continue reading New Article: Down and Out with Orwell and Greenwood (1933; 1939)
A Brief Addendum: the Cover image I missed in the Czech edition of Love on the Dole (1937)
In 2018 in my (rather long) article about all known dust-wrappers and cover designs for all the editions of all Walter Greenwood's published works I gave an account of the Czech translation's striking dust-wrapper by the very well-known Czech artist known as Toyen (1902-1980). However, I missed something: if you removed the dust-wrapper (which I… Continue reading A Brief Addendum: the Cover image I missed in the Czech edition of Love on the Dole (1937)
New Article – Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)
In mid-February 2025 a Cornish auction house put on a sale of works from the studio of Wragg and Greenwood's friend and fellow artist Frederick Roberts Johnson. These included quite a large number of items which had come in turn by some means from Arthur Wragg's Polperro studio. I was able to buy through an… Continue reading New Article – Underneath the Lamp-post: Arthur Wragg’s Incomplete Sketch for a New Walter Greenwood Dust-wrapper (1930? 1940s?)
New Material added to WG’s Biographical Timeline
I've been doing some new work on Walter's biography recently and have added some items to his biographical timeline which might be of interest - these include reports of the night burglars hid in the Garrick Theatre at the end of a performance of Love on the Dole in 1935 and tried to steal the… Continue reading New Material added to WG’s Biographical Timeline
Walter Greenwood: Not Just Love on the Dole 