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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Doris May LESSING, aliases Dorothy LESSING, Doris May WISDOM, Doris May TAYLER: Southern...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4055
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This record is about the Doris May LESSING, aliases Dorothy LESSING, Doris May WISDOM, Doris May TAYLER: Southern... dating from 1952 Oct 04 - 1955 Aug 29 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- KV 2/4055
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1952 Oct 04 - 1955 Aug 29
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Description (What the record is about)
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Doris May LESSING, aliases Dorothy LESSING, Doris May WISDOM, Doris May TAYLER: Southern Rhodesian, British. Doris LESSING first came to notice in the early 1940s controlling (with her then German husband) the Salisbury Left Club in Southern Rhodesia. She moved to Britain in 1949. By 1953 at the latest had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and was involved with its Writers' Group and in 1954 was the Daily Worker's drama critic. In 1956 she visited the Central African Federation for several weeks, making a report to the CPGB. Later the same year she resigned from the Party following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, but remained active in the Movement for Colonial Freedom
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Serial 89a: 1955 CPGB registration card
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 97471 VOL 2
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- Public Record(s)
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- Retained Until 2015
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14895003/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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