Communist Party of Great Britain Biographical Project - Jon Bloomfield
TitleCommunist Party of Great Britain Biographical Project - Jon Bloomfield
ReferenceTAPE/616
Date
n.d.
Scope and ContentThis is a copy of a tape held by the British Library, in their Sound Archives, as part of their CPGB Biographical Project.
Details about the tape may be obtained from the British Library web site.
Jon became involved in student politics from October 1968, when he went to Cambridge University. He was in the Socialist Society and the United Nations Association. That was how he became interested in politics, and he joined the CPGB in January 1970. (without being in the YCL first),
The first tape is quite difficult to hear, and there doesn’t seem to be anything on the second tape. There are publications written by Jon Bloomfield in the WCML Collection.
Details about the tape may be obtained from the British Library web site.
Jon became involved in student politics from October 1968, when he went to Cambridge University. He was in the Socialist Society and the United Nations Association. That was how he became interested in politics, and he joined the CPGB in January 1970. (without being in the YCL first),
The first tape is quite difficult to hear, and there doesn’t seem to be anything on the second tape. There are publications written by Jon Bloomfield in the WCML Collection.
Extent2 Cassette tapes
Physical descriptionNWA copy
LanguageEnglish
Archival historyThe Communist Party of Great Britain Biographical Project, part-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council covers the full period of the party's existence (1920-1991) and deals with all aspects of its work including industrial work, educational and cultural activities as well as local and international campaigns. The audio recordings of more than 150 interviews with members and former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain, conducted between October 1999 and September 2001 by a group of historians based at Manchester University have now been deposited in the British Library Sound Archive.
Related object
Persons keywordBloomfield, Jon, Communist Party of Great Britain, British Library National Sound Archive
SubjectCommunism
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationZ (Room 24)