 He was associated with the "Socialist Register" (editor with Ralph Miliband) and the multi-volume "Dictionary of Labour Biography"; from 1972 onwards he was one of the editors of the ten-volume "Dictionary".His acquaintances and co-thinkers included John Griffith, Stuart Hall, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Ralph Miliband, Sir John Pratt, Raphael Samuel and E.P.Thompson.