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in 1925, some south London co-operative groups challenged
Hargrave's authoritarian tendencies. The dispute was over his refusal to recognise a local group called "The Brockley Thing". The result was that in 1925 Paul and some other members broke away to form a new group, the
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During the 1930s Paul seems to have worked as a freelance journalist. He was also employed in London educational and social work, as well as working on the continent with refugees. He was a tutor with the London County
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During his materially poor but culturally rich childhood, Paul contributed dramatic poetry recitations to family/neighbourhood entertainments. He later recalled performing a vignette called 'Two Coons', which gave a sympathetic representation of
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Lidstone and Angus Whitehead catalogued the library before it was moved. One memorable discovery was a paperback edition of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's "Psychopathia Sexualis".
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died in Ashford, Kent, in August 1943 Paul paid ÂŁ12 for a burial plot. This event is commemorated in his poem 'Lady Whose Grave I Own'.
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442:"Co-operation with the USSR; A Study of the Consumers' Movement" (1934)
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538:"The Death and Resurrection of the Church" (1968)
475:"The Age of Terror" (1950) – on Stalinist Russia.
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