How Much More of This, Old Boy...?: Scenes from a Reporter's Life by Peter Paterson, Feb 2011 (link)
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Reg Birch: Engineer, Trade Unionist, Communist by Will Podmore, 1 May 2004.
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Maoism in the Developed World by Robert Jackson Alexander, 2001. (Google Books)
The Kick Inside - Revolutionary Opposition in the CPGB, 1945-1991 by Lawrence Parker, 2012.
East Wind; China and the British Left, 1925-1976 by Tom Buchanan, 2012.
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Current Background; Issues 1041–1044, 1976.
Workers of the Empire, Unite; Radical and Popular Challenges to British Imperialism, 1910s-1960s, edited by Yann Béliard and Neville Kirk, 2021.
Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations; Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century by Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley, 2000.
From Scottsboro to Munich; Race and Political Culture in 1930s Britain by Susan D. Pennybacker, 2009.
It Occurred to Me by Peter D. Carr, 2004.
A Book about the Film Monty Python's Life of Brian; All the References from Assyrians to Zeffirelli by Darl Larsen, 2018.
Museum Representations of Maoist China; From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch by Amy Jane Barnes, 2016.
World Strength of the Communist Party Organizations; Issue 19 by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 1967.
The Glasgow Media Group Reader, Vol. I; News Content, Langauge and Visuals, edited by John Eldridge, 2013.
MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law by Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, 2020.
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To-follow up
ODNB Sources:
Trade Union Congress annual conference reports
Minutes of the Trade Union Congress general council, 1975–9
J. Jones, Union man (1986)
N. Fishman, The British communist party and the trade unions, 1933–45 (1995)
W. Hannington, Unemployed struggles, 1919–1936 (1937)
The Times (9 June 1994)
The Guardian (8 June 1994)
The Independent (17 June 1994)
The Independent (22 June 1994)
WWW, 1991–5
W. Podmore, Reg Birch: engineer, trade unionist, communist (2004)
