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From our archive
Featuring contributors such as GB Shaw, EM Forster, WH Auden, JB Priestly and Kingsley Martin, selections from the New Statesman back archive dating back to 1913 can be viewed in the From our archive column
Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of England's greatest 20th-century composers: his Lark Ascending was recently voted the nation's favourite piece of music. Much of Vaughan Williams's output was influenced by the English folk music tradition, but his finest works - according to the New Statesman's music critic at the time of his death 50 years ago - were his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, which very much reflected the spirit of his age
Pamphlet literature
By 1943, George Orwell had become an infrequent contributor to the New Statesman. A quarrel with the magazine's editor, Kingsley Martin, over his anti-Stalinist but left-wing stance during the Spanish Civil War had led to the suppression of some of his articles. In this rare appearance in the Statesman's pages, Orwell argued that the time was ripe for the flowering of political pamphlets, but although many were being published most were little more than rubbish.
Labour and the middle classes
In 1945, Labour won the general election as a political party that appealed to the whole nation - including the "useful" middle classes - and not just manual workers. Three years later, Maurice Edelman, Labour MP for Coventry West and a regular contributor to this magazine, described how the party had to hold the loyalties of managers, technicians and scientists and others who had voted for it in 1945 if it hoped to win the next general election.
