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Dear Members, I work in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester - which now include the Labour History Archive and Study Centre - and I keep coming across large collections of left-wing pamphlets. One marvellous one is a Communist Party pamphlet on 'How to Sell Pamphlets' and it made me realise, the obvious fact, that pamphlets have played such a central part in radical politics. From the reformation, the civil war, through the 17th, 18th and 19th century, and then last century, where almost every radical campaign or party had its pamphlet, some producing several a month. Has any work been done on this issue, preferably about the 20th century but equally about the antecedents? Perhaps in prefaces to catalogues or in academic books and journals. Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks, John Walker ======================================================== John Walker Archive Assistant, Labour History Archive & Study Centre John Rylands University Library of Manchester University of Manchester Oxford Road, MANCHESTER. M13 9PP Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk ========================================================