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Bedow Norman
Norman Bedow Born in 1906, Bedow was a Unity Theatre activist from Paul Robeson’s appearance at Mornington Crescent in `Plant in the Sun’. An activist in the Co-op movement, he was also involved in the […]
Month: October 2009
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Bellamy Ron
Ron Bellamy Born in Sheffield in 1917, Ron Bellamy won scholarships to Bradford Grammar School and then to Queens College, Oxford, where he read Classical Greats from October 1936, although he switched to Politics, Philosophy […]
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Diamond Dorothy
Dorothy Diamond was born on February 23rd 1909 in a village in Kent. Her father was a clerk and Dorothy attended the local grammar school. She spent four years at University of London and, from […]
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Bennett Don & Dusty
Don and Dusty Bennett Don Bennett, born in 1907, was a leading member of the Walsall Communist Party branch who, together with his brother ‘Dusty’, born Gordon but always known by his nick-name, were born […]
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Davis Dave
Dave Davis Born in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, Davis served in the Royal Navy on motor torpedo boats during the Second World War, when he joined the Communist Party. A qualified electrician, he worked in and around Cheltenham, before […]
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Davidson Madge
Madge Davidson Madge Davidson was an Irish Communist of great stature who achieved remarkable things in her short life of 41 years. In her teens, she took part in demonstrations against the American war in […]
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Berkeley Monty
Monty Berkeley Monty Berkeley was a Scottish Communist active for six decades in the Party and the wider labour movement from the 1930s. He worked “mainly in books” and was famed for his encouragement […]
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Airlie Jimmy
Jimmy Airlie Jimmy Airlie was born on November 10th 1936, in Renfrew, the son of a boilermaker. He served his apprenticeship as a fitter with Simon and Lobnitz, a shipyard on Clydeside. After his National […]