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Lilley Sam
Sam Lilley Samuel (always known as Sam outside of academic circles) Lilley was born in Belfast on 25th June 1914. His father, William Edwin Campbell Lilley, who married Lizzie Shaw in September 1913, worked […]
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Padmore George
George Padmore George Padmore was born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse on June 28th 1903 in Arouca, Trinidad, then part of the British West Indies. His paternal great-grandfather was an Ashanti warrior who was taken […]
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Silverthorne Shon
Shon (R J) Silverthorne The younger brother of Thora Silverthorne (see separate entry), Reginald J Silverthorne was born in 1913 in Bedwellty, Monmouthshire. Their father, George Richard Silverthorne, was a coal miner, their mother, Sarah […]
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Loeffler Frank
Frank Loeffler Frank Loeffler was born in Oxford in 1920 to a father, George, a chemist who originated in Germany. George took his wife and Frank’s future mother, Elizabeth, to leave England at the […]
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Page Sidney
Sidney Page A life-long Communist, Sid Page taught English at Stonehill High School in Leicester for 25 years, having previously worked at Roundhill School. When he became President of NUT Mid-Leicestershire Association in […]
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Smith Bill
Bill Smith Bill Smith was a Communist Party member who was active in Leicester in the 1930s and 40s. He was expelled from the Trades Council in the 1930s for his party membership, presumably […]
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Lowman Pete
Pete Lowman Born on 9th Apr 1943, Pete Lowman was an official of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers Union and subsequently NUKF&ATU (the merged union resulting from the link up with […]
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Sykes Fred
Fred Sykes Fred Sykes was a Communist activist who lived in Dryden Street, Leicester. He was active in the local unemployed and anti-fascist movement in Leicester from around 1932. In August 1936, he […]
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Merrells H
H. Merrells A leading figure in the British National Minority Movement (NMM) electricians’ section, Merrells attended the 5th Congress of the Red International of Labour Unions (RILU) in Moscow in the 1930s.
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Williams Gwyn Alf
Gwyn Alf Williams Born in Dowlais on 30th September 1925, Gwyn Alf (as he was known, to distinguish him from several other eminent Welshmen with similar names) saw himself as "a people's remembrancer", […]