Memory and Method: Christopher Hill, Communist Party History, and A (Minor) Footnote to a (Creditable) Folly

Bryan D. Palmer
In October 1994, I opened one of those light blue Royal Mail International Aerogrammes that periodically crossed my desk in times past from friends in the United Kingdom. This one was from John Saville, of whose support and generosity I had been the beneficiary since our first meeting at a gathering of “Commonwealth Labour Historians” in 1981.