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A biographical, political, and literary introduction to John Cornford, the first man to go from England to fight the fascist takeover in Spain in 1936 - a poet, a revolutionary, and a military and political leader.

Mainstream Mainstream, VOL LIX No 3, New Delhi, January 2, 2021 Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 2, 2021 Saturday 2 January 2021, by SC Letter to the Readers – Mainstream, Jan 2, 2021 Once again we have crossed the doorstep of a new year. The year that we leave behind was one with a difference. Since the time I was born in the mid-1940s, I have never experienced a year of such a grave pandemic as this year, 2020, that took a toll of so many lives. What will the new year, 2021, bring to us? Hope or catastrophe? That is the moot question today. The present does not hold any positive re...

Cornford was the son of a Cambridge philosophy professor and his mother was a published poet. Explorer Charles Darwin was his great-grandfather. Even before his fierce intelligence became apparent, Cornford had a comfortable and privileged life set up before him. He attended private school, where he developed a love for cricket — typical of his class — and a somewhat less typical love for football. Even more unconventional were his increasingly left-wing political sympathies. His brother Christopher remembered how “as young as 14 he became sympathetic to socialism. As we strode toget...

Bodleian Library, Oxford HELEN MUSPRATT was a noted photographer who came to prominence during the inter-war years yet, like so many women artists, her life and work had been largely ignored before being recently “rediscovered.” Muspratt decided to make a career for herself in photography early in life. After completing a photographic course at the Regent Street Polytechnic, and still in her early twenties, she began working as a receptionist for the fashionable Mayfair photographic studio of Donald Donovan. ­ In 1928, full of confidence, she set up her own studio in the High Street in S...