Raymond William Postgate (1896–1971)

Author of The Outline of history: The Whole Story of Man, Volume 2

40+ Works 1,171 Members 27 Reviews

About the Author

Raymond Postgate (1896-1971) was a journalist, author, socialist, and founder of the Good Food Guide. An early advocate for communism, he broke from the Moscow directed Communist International in 1922 and became a leading figure in the independent British Labour movement. He was an astute and show more prolific commentator whose many books and articles were influential in twentieth-century British political theory and policy. show less

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Works by Raymond William Postgate

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The Outline of history: The Whole Story of Man, Volume 2 (1920) — Revised — 527 copies

Verdict of Twelve (1940) 232 copies

Somebody at the Door (1943) 121 copies

The Common People, 1746-1946 (1938) 110 copies

Revolution from 1789 to 1906 (1920) 27 copies

The Ledger is Kept (1953) 25 copies

The Story of a Year: 1848 (Cassell History) (1975) 16 copies

The British Common People, 1746–1938 (1938) 14 copies

A pocket history of the British working class (1937) — Author — 12 copies

The Plain Man's Guide to Wine (1955) 11 copies

Story of a year--1798 (1969) 9 copies

That Devil Wilkes (2001) 7 copies

Portuguese Wine (1969) 6 copies

The Life of George Lansbury (1951) 6 copies

A Workers History of the Great Strike 4 copies

A short history of the British workers 4 copies

The bolshevik theory by R. W. Postgate 4 copies

Karl Marx (1933) 3 copies

Out of the Past: Some Revolutionary Sketches 3 copies

Murder, Piracy And Treason (1925) 3 copies

Dear Robert Emmet 2 copies

The workers' International (1921) 2 copies

The Builders History (1923) 2 copies

Detective Stories of To-Day (1940) 2 copies

England goes to press; the English people's opinion on foreign affairs as reflected in their newspapers since Waterloo… (1937) 2 copies

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus 2 copies

Recipes from the Good Food Guide 2 copies

The Good Food Guide 1961-1962 1 copy

Outline of History, The The Whole Story of Man, Vol. 1 1 copy

An alphabet of choosing and Serving Wine 1 copy

Outline of History Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind in two volumes 1 copy

British Library Crime Classics 12 Books Collection - Series 5 and 6 (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy

Pervigilivm Veneris, incerti auctoris carmen de vere : The eve of Venus in Latin and in English 1 copy

How to make a revolution (2018) 1 copy

What to do with the B.B.C. 1 copy

Let's talk it over : an argument about socialism for the unconverted 1 copy

Periods of working-class history. 1, Chartism and the "trades union" 1 copy

The Conversations of Dr Johnson, selected from the "Life" by James Boswell 1 copy

Chartism and the "trade union." 1 copy

No Epitaph (1932) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Outline of History (1920) — Contributor, some editions — 2,200 copies

The Vigil of Venus (1996) — Translator, some editions — 42 copies

The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Contributor — 33 copies

Lilliput Magazine. November - December 1952. Vol. 31 no. 6. Issue no. 186. — Contributor — 1 copy

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Legal name: Postgate, Raymond William
Birthdate: 1896-11-06
Date of death: 1971-03-29
Gender: male
Nationality: UK
Birthplace: Cambridge, England, UK
Place of death: Canterbury, England, UK
Education: University of Oxford (St. John's College)
Occupations: journalist
writer
editor
Relationships: Cole, Margaret (sister)
Lansbury, George (father-in-law)
Postgate, Oliver (son)
Postgate, John (son)
Postgate, John Percival (father)
Organizations: Daily Herald

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Somebody at the door by Raymond Postgate

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https://nordie.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/book-review-somebody-at-the-door-by-raym...

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Somebody at the Door (British Library Crime Classics) by Raymond Postgate

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Verdict of Twelve (British Library Crime Classics) by Raymond Postgate

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Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate

Good, unusually composed mystery. Half the book is setting up about half the jurors- each in a little capsule short story of their own. All pretty interesting and well drawn and then on the unpleasant murder of a young boy. Advise reading in one quick fell swoop (not my method, alas) as the last part relies on details of the earlier stories (mentioned above) and I was not always able to keep them together. NB: Sredni Vashtar (Saki) appears.

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