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Catalogue description Rodney Howard HILTON and Gwynneth Joan HILTON: British. Rodney Howard HILTON was a...
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| Reference: | KV 2/4299 |
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| Description: |
Rodney Howard HILTON and Gwynneth Joan HILTON: British. Rodney Howard HILTON was a member of the Oxford University group of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 and of its National Student Committee in 1938. As a junior army officer in World War II he showed no evidence of communist activity but at the same time maintained contact with the Party HQ and after World War II joined the Party's Historians' Group and its National Cultural Committee. By 1949 he had been selected to train Party cadres and in the mid-1950s was a member of the Advisory Council of 'Marxist Quarterly'. His second wife Gwynneth was also an active communist and a committee member of her branch of the Party. Rodney Howard HILTON resigned from the Party following the 1956 Soviet action in Hungary |
| Note: | Serial 188b: letter signed by leading communists, including R H HILTON, criticizing the CPGB Executive for its uncritical support for Soviet action in Hungary. Serial 190a: letter from HILTON resigning from the Advisory Board of 'Marxist Quarterly'. Serials 192a and 199b: CPHQ conversations referring to HILTON's resignation from the Party. With birth certificate and 3 photographs |
| Date: | 1956 Jul 02 - 1960 Jun 14 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 201977 VOL 4 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2016 |
| Record opening date: | 28 September 2016 |
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