IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0372 SEDGWICK
Held at: Bishopsgate Institute
Title: SEDGWICK, Peter Harold (1934-1983)
Date(s): 1953-1984
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 5 Boxes
Name of creator(s): Sedgwick | Peter Harold | 1934-1983 | socialist and author
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Peter Sedgwick was born in 1934 and brought up in Liverpool. He gained a scholarship to Balliol College Oxford where he became a communist, leaving the Communist Party in 1956 with other members of the early New Left. He then joined the Socialist Review Group later to become the International Socialists. He wrote brilliantly for the group’s press, but also involved himself deeply in all the drudgery and activities of the rank rank-and and-file members. He was always a free spirit and was bitterly opposed to the International Socialism group renaming itself as a the Socialist Workers Party in 1976 refusing to join the new organisation while always remaining a man dedicated to the far left. He was editing the works of Victor Serge at the time of his death.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983), including: correspondence with contemporaries and friends including Raphael Samuel, Jean McCrindle, Anna Davin, Luke Hodgkin, Stanley and Hannah Mitchell, Steven Lukes and others, 1953-1983; photocopies of Sedgwick's handwritten diaries, 1980-1983; family, biographical and personal papers, 1934-1952; published articles, reviews and papers regarding politics, psychology and Victor Serge, 1963-1984.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
No further arrangement at present.
Conditions governing access:
CLOSED
Conditions governing reproduction:
Documents cannot be photocopied at present. Digital photography (without flash) is permitted for research purposes on completion of the Library's Copyright Declaration form and with respect to current UK copyright law.
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No further finding aids at present.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred to Bishopsgate Institute from Ruskin College, Oxford, 12 November 2008.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Stefan Dickers, 20 November 2008.