Dobb, Maurice Herbert 1900-1976
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Born 1900 · died 1976
Maurice Herbert Dobb was an English Marxist economist at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Dobb also helped to establish the Communist Party Historians Group which developed social history and attracted future members of the Cambridge Five to Marxism in the 1930s.
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Personal and family papers, diaries, correspondence and publications, Dobb Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge.
1943 Minutes of the Economic Committee (including questions for Dobb) and paper by Dobb for 1966 Conference on Recent Problems and Changes in Socialist Countries, Communist Party of Great Britain Papers, People’s History Museum, Manchester.
Correspondents
ROBIN PAGE ARNOTT, Correspondence 1940-67, Robin Page Arnott Papers, Brynmore Jones Library, University of Hull
R. PALME DUTT, Correspondence 1925-6, 1961-2, 1968, Communist Party of Great Britain Papers, People’s History Museum, Manchester
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1937-1962, Meade Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1929, Robbins Papers, BLPES
JOAN VIOLET ROBINSON, Correspondence 1939-41, Joan Robinson Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge
PIERO SRAFFA, Correspondence 1928-1970s, Sraffa Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge
Printed Sources
Ronald L. Meek, ‘Maurice Herbert Dobb 1900-1976’, Proceedings of the British Academy LXIII (1977) 333-49
ODNB; New Palgrave I 910-12
Portraits
Proceedings of the British Academy, 1977