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Watson/5/17
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- 1981 - 1998 (Creation)
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George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.
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George Watson kept this material together: a proposal for a book on the relationship between genocide and socialism is accompanied by material on the articles 'Rehearsal for the Holocaust?' (1981), 'The Disinvitation of Nolte' (1989), 'How the Holocaust was hidden' (1990), 'Alfred Rosenberg: The Triumph of Tedium' (1995) and 'The Indictment of a People' (1998).
Note that 'The Lost Literature of Socialism' (1998) and the article 'Never Blame the Left' (1995), both containing arguments overlapping with the material here, were filed separately by Watson and so have been treated by the cataloguer as distinct subseries. That a promotional flyer for 'The Lost Literature of Socialism' is included in this subseries strongly suggests that it arose from the book proposed here.
Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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ARTICLES
'Rehearsal for the Holocaust?' ('Commentary', 1981)
'Not Always to the Swift', review of Nancy Stepan's 'The Idea of Race in Science' (N.B. the published version of this review, from the 'Financial Times' of 8 January 1983, appears in the 'Politics and Literature in Modern Britain' subseries)
'The DIsinvitation of Nolte' ('Encounter', January 1989)
'How the Holocaust was hidden' ('Sunday Telegraph', 7 January 1990)
'Alfred Rosenberg: The Triumph of Tedium' ('Chronicles', February 1995)
'The Indictment of a People' ('Quadrant', July-August 1998)
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'"Genocide" by George Watson': book proposal
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Flyer for 'The Lost Literature of Socialism'
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CORRESPONDENCE
ABRAHAMS, Peter
ADLER-KARLSSON, Gunnar
ALMOND, Mark
ANDREW, Christopher
APPLEBAUM, Anne
BALFOUR, Michael
BATTY, Peter
BERLIN, Isaiah
BETHELL, Nicholas
BRACHER, Karl Dietrich
BRADSHAW, Peter
BROWN, Archie
BROWN, Brenda, enclosing letter from Robert Moses SHAPIRO
BRUEGEL, J W
BRUS, Wlodzimierz
BRZEZINSKI, Zbigniew
BUKOVSKY, Vladimir
CANNY, Nicholas
CARMICHAEL, Joel
CHALONER, W H
CIECHANOWSKI, Jan
CONQUEST, Robert
CZARNOCKA, H
DAVIES, Norman
DEWHIRST, Martin
DE ZAYAS, Alfred-Maurice
DUGGER, Ronnie
EBERHART, Richard
EVANS, Clark
EVANS, Richard J
FABIAN, Peter
FLEMING, Gerald
FLEW, Antony
FRIEDGUT, Ted
GARLIŃSKI, Józef
GARTON ASH, Timothy
GAY, Ruth and Peter
GILBERT, Martin
GLASS, Derek
GRIGORENKO, Petro
GROSS, Jan T
HENDERSON, W O
HERBERT, Ulrich
HERWARTH, Hans von
HEWITT, Nicholas
HILL, Roland
HUME, Catherine
JELINSKY, Kot
JENKINS, Simon David
JONES, Trevor
JORDAN, J C C
KAC, Arthur W
KALNINS, Mara
KEREN, Michael
KETTENACKER, Lothar
KOCH, Lene
LABEDZ, Leopold
LANNING, Gregory J
LAQUEUR, Walter
LASKY, Melvin Jonah
LEGGETT, George
LEIBHOLZ, Marianne
LEONHARD, Jörn
LEVIN, M
LIPSON, Leon
MOLLOY, Molly
MOUNT, William Robert Ferdinand
NOLTE, Ernst
NORA, Pierre
NOVE, Alec
OPPEN, Beate von
PANITZA, John-Dimitry
PASCAL, Roy
PEARCE, Brian
PODHORETZ, Norman
POHL, Dieter
POLONSKI/POLONSKY, Antony Barry
PRITTIE, Terence
RAACK, Richard C
ROBSON, William Wallace
ROSE, Paul Lawrence
ROSEMAN, Mark
RÜCKERL, A
SAUNDERS, George
SCHAPIRO, Leonard B
SETON-WATSON, George Hugh Nicholas
SHIFRIN, Avraham
SHILS, Edward
SIEBERT, Horst
SIENKIEWICZ, Anna
SMITH, Geoffrey H
SNOW, Charles Percy
SOMBART, Nicolaus
SPEARES, J A
SPECTOR, David
STEINBERG, Jonathan
STENZEL, Jürgen
STEUSSY, R E
SUMMERS, A
SWIANIEWICZ, S
TOLSTOY, Nikolai
TOMBS, Robert P
TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh Redwald
TYRRELL, Robert Emmett
ULAM, Adam B
VLADIMIROV, Leonid
VOLKMANN, Hans-Erich
VRBA, Rudolf
WALTHER, Gebhardt von
WATT, Donald Cameron
WEBSTER, Richard
WHELAN, Joseph
WILES, Peter
WISNIEWSKI, Jacek
WOJAKOWSKA, M
WOLF, Joseph Georg
ZAMOYSKI, Adam
ZARUSKY, Jürgen
ZAWODNY, J K