Appendix 2 Reading List Books and pamphlets relevant to Croydon include: Kenneth Alwyn. A Baton in the Ballet and other places. Filo Books. 2015 Christopher Barnett. John Whitgift. The Whitgift Foundation. 2015 Christina & David Bewley. Gentleman Radical. A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812. Tauris Academic Studies. 1998 Robin Bunce and Paul Field. Darcus Howe. A Political Biography. Bloomsbury. 2014 Pam Buttrey. Cane Hill Hospital: The Tower on the Hill. Aubrey Warsash Publishing. 2010 Sean Creighton. See https://sites.google.com/site/historysocialaction Thomas Frost. Forty Years’ Recollections – Literary and Political. Hard Press Reprint Jeffrey Green. (1) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life. Pickering & Chatto. 2011; (2) Coleridge- Taylor. A Centenary Celebration. History & Social Action Publications. 2012 John Grindrod. Concretopia. A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain. Old Street Publishing. 2014 Chris Groom. Rockin' and Around Croydon: Rock, Folk, Blues & Jazz in & Around the Croydon Area, 1960- 1980. Wombeat Pub. 1998 Duncan Hall. A Pleasant Change From Politics. New Clarion Press. 2001 Ben Harker. Class Act. The Cultural and Political Life of Ewan MacColl. Pluto Press. 2007 Chris Hockenhull. Streets of London The Official Biography of Ralph McTell. Northdown Publishing Ltd. 1997 Jon Newman & David Western. Death on the Brighton Road. Thamesis Publications. 2017 Peter Raby. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life. 2002 Jocelyn Robson. Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels. How the Two Lives of Grace Oakeshott Defined an Era. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016 Peter Saunders. Croydon Boy: Growing up in post-war Britain. Lulu.com 2017. http://petersaunders.org.uk Peggy Seeger. First Time Ever. Faber & Faber. 2017 Stormzy & Jude Yawson. Rise Up. The #Merky story so far. #Merky Books. 2019 Arthur Russel Wallace. My Life: A Record of Events and Opinion. 2017 1 Appendix 3 Footnotes Most of the articles cited on Croydon Citizen are by me. The History and Social Action blog site is mine. My imprint History & Social Action Publications is cited as H&SAP. Council documents are on its website. 6 http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/croydon-council-plans-to-reduce-its.html http://thecroydoncitizen.com/culture/why-the-citizen-supports-the-local-studies-archive http://thecroydoncitizen.com/culture/croydon-protect-spending-schools-music 7 https://southcroydoncommunityassociation.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/the-future-of-fairfield- halls.pdf http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-future-of-fairfield-halls.html https://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2013/06/independent-arts-body-needed-for- croydon.html http://thecroydoncitizen.com/politics-society/invitation-croydon-arts-debate http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/time-to-renew-fairfield-halls-charity.html https://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2014/02/are-fairfield-halls-under-threat.html 8 http://thecroydoncitizen.com/politics-society/invitation-croydon-arts-debate http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2014/04/croydon-arts-network-powers-up.html www.justcroydon.com 9 http://thecroydoncitizen.com/culture/labour-offer-on-boosting-culture-in-croydon http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-limitations-of-croydons-culture.html https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/croydon-8-july-cultural-debate-questions https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/croydon-cultural-workshop-8-july-2014- analysis-and-proposed-next-steps 11 https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2014/08/14/croydon-cultural-issues-update 12 http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2014/11/can-council-contribute-to-improving.html 13 http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2014/11/is-croydon-cultural-quarter-top-down.html https://seancreighton1947.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/segas-house.pdf 15 https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2019/05/05/croydons-new-cultural-plan 16 http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2012/12/croydon-and-role-of-community-and.html http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2017/08/some-reflections-on-community-action.html The problems of partnership working were a serious issue as the Local Strategic Partnerships developed in the early 2000s. A key issue was the relationship with between community and voluntary sector organisations and local authorities. This led to the Local Government Association and sector umbrella organisations preparing guidance, with a follow-up report on the lessons learnt, which I was involved in. I still have a PDF of the latter which can be obtained from me. 17 How Croydon’s grass roots art scene bloomed. Croydon Citizen. 30 October 2015 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Network: https://sites.google.com/site/samuelcoleridgetaylornetwork 2 18 Fred Scott. One Autumn Day. Surviving Cancer. Soundpractice. 2016 www.fit-2-learn.com 19 My journey started as a child and teenager as an avaricious reader, influenced by my parents interests, the shows we listened to on the radio, the people I met including those involved in culture and political campaigning, my hobbies, the range of music I listened to, some of my English literature and history teachers and my entry into bookselling. Then three years at Sheffield University studying history was complimented by student politics, bookselling, journalism, and even attempting to write poetry. Then followed working mainly for community and voluntary organisations at local and national level until retirement in 2012, as well as community and political activity in the areas I have lived. My interest in aspects of culture during that time and since has encompassed the histories of local areas like the present day Boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Merton and Wandsworth and the North East, trade union and labour movement organisations, friendly societies, co-operatives and other mutuals, freemasons, the Black Atlantic and British Black History, landscaping and parks, pleasure gardens, roller skating and cycling, Paul Robeson, the political and social uses of song and music, and the conflicts over who controls public space. All these have led me into various roles as researcher, speaker, walks leader, writer, sharer of information, advisor and, stints as organiser of the former Wandsworth History Workshop, member of South London Record editorial board, and the Merton Multi-Cultural History Forum, Secretary of Labour Heritage and the Black & Asian Studies Association, co-ordinator of the Lambeth Riverside Festivals in 2005 and 2006, former member of Wandsworth Heritage Partnership, and currently co-ordinator of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Croydon Radical History Networks and Croydon authors group, and joint co-ordinator of the Norbury History group. These apparently disparate subjects and activities are linked by the approaches relating to ‘hidden histories’, ‘public history, ‘history from below’ and the relevance of history to socio-economic and political issues today and cultural developments. They are further linked by being subject to my blog writings and my contributions to the former Croydon Citizen, as well as my publishing (as History & Social Action Publications) and continuing bookselling. http://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/engaging-in-cultural-activities.html For a discussion of ‘public history’ see https://historyandsocialaction.blogspot.com/2016/03/passport-to- kennington-what-is-public.html Details of H&SAP publications can be seen at: https://sites.google.com/site/historysocialaction 21 Ken Worple. Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing and Popular Fiction. Comedia. 1984. pp. 107 & 110) This book examines the economic and cultural dynamics of the popular products of the publishing industry, such as crime, romance, comic and children’s books, and the relationship between poets and song. It includes a useful short discussion on the significance of Penguin Books (pp. 88-89), the relationship between libraries and bookshops including a useful summary of the development of organisations libraries through to public libraries in the 19thC. (pp. 95-106). The chapter Childhood dreams and stories stresses the appeal to adults of children’s books. 22 Worple. op cit. p. 112 49 https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/croydon-councils-creative-growth-plan- faces-serious-challenges https://seancreighton1947.wordpress.com/2020/02/24/where-next-for-westfield 25 Horne Tooke was friends with William Tooke of Purley. Horne was a lawyer, a priest, a radical campaigner for radical parliamentary reform, who was blocked from taking his seat after being elected as an MP and was acquitted of treason in 1794. He often stayed at Purley. He adopted Tooke as an extra name at William’s request, and was lent money by him to buy a house on Wimbledon Common. Although he did not as he had expected receive William’s estate, he was helped financially through the will. Phonetics: Members were W. E. M. Dobson at the Knightlen Nursery, 39 Mitcham Rd; George Wenn, 40 Handcroft Rd; W. J. Whittle (possibly T.), 5 Devonshire Terrace, Thornton Heath; Charles J. Wood, Tavistock Lodge, Tavistock Rd. The Phonetic Journal. 12 February 1876. pp. 74-5, 110, 136 & 196 3 29 Frost. Forty Years’ Recollections – Literary and Political. Hard Press Reprint 30 Stefan Szczelkun. The Conspiracy of Good Taste. Routine Art Co. 2nd ed. 2016; Silence – available paperback, and as downloadable a PDF version at https://payhip.com/b/y1YG. Chapter 2 of Good Taste can be downloaded at https://libcom.org/library/conspiracy-good-taste- 1993-stefan-szczelkun http://www.archivesandcreativepractice.com/stefan-szczelkun