Raymond Challinor

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Raymond Challinor is a distinguished Marxist historian of the British labour movement, particularly in the North East of England. While a member of the Socialist Workers Party, he wrote his best known work, a classic history of the Socialist Labour Party, The Origins of British Bolshevism (1977).

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  • Alexander MacDonald and the miners (1968)
  • The Miners' Association : a trade union in the age of the Chartists / with Brian Ripley (1968)
  • The Lancashire and Cheshire miners (1972)
  • Flawed Heroes (book review, 1976)
  • The Origins of British Bolshevism (1977)
  • John S. Clarke : parliamentarian, poet and lion-tamer (1977)
  • Working class politics in North East England (co-edited with M. Callcott)
  • A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England. WP Roberts and the Struggle for Workers Rights (1990)
  • A new harmony? : Robert Owen's visit to Newcastle in 1843 (1990)
  • The struggle for hearts and minds : essays on the Second World War (1995)
  • Military Discipline and Working Class Resistance in World War II
  • The Red Mole of History (2001)

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