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Baruch Hilda

Hilda Baruch Born Hilda Froom eight days after the end of the first world war, she grew up in a working-class home in Liverpool where Speed, the news-sheet of the Liverpool tram drivers, was produced. […]

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Bridgeman Reginald

Reginald Bridgeman   While Bridgeman was never actually a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, he was certainly a “fellow traveller”, and was especially very close to Harry Pollitt.  In practice, to all intents and […]

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Brown Lilian

Lilian Brown   Born in August 1916, Lilian was one of nine children of a cabinet maker, she was brought up in extreme poverty in London. Her father was a conscientious objector in the First […]

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Burn Micky

Micky Burn   Michael 'Micky' Clive Burn was born on 11th December 1912 into a well-to-do home in Mayfair, London. He was the son of Sir Clive Burn, a solicitor employed as secretary to the Duchy […]