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Nicholson David
David Nicholson Nicholson was born in Nottingham in 1956 and educated at Forest Fields Grammar School. He graduated from Bristol Polytechnic with a history and politics degree and began work in the health sphere. At […]
Year: 2013
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Orwellian mischief
Orwellian mischief – the politics and psychology of an anti-Communist by Graham Stevenson The 1941 drawings by Gertrude Elias from her story board for a cartoon film mooted to the Ministry of Information. Orwell briefly worked […]
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Ford Connie
Connie Ford Connie M. Ford was born in 1912 in south-east London, the youngest of three daughters, her sisters being Edith and Laura. Their father was a manufacturer of school scientific apparatus and, later, artillery […]
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Julius Manny
Manny Julius Manny was born Emmanuel Nadelsticher on 25th May 1912 in Westcliff-on-Sea to Harry and Sophie Julius. Harry's father's name had been Julius Nadelsticher but he eventually became known as Mr N Julius and […]
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Evans Chris
Chris Evans Born Christopher Evans around 1912, Chris Evans became a miner employed at the Seven Sisters Colliery and was an active Communist trades unionist for much of his life. In his younger days, […]
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Nield John
John Nield Councillor John Nield was a Communist member of the Liverpool County Borough Council who belonged to the Communist faction of the Labour Party and later simply the Communist Party. Nield was but one of […]
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Goodwin Dennis
Dennis Goodwin Dennis Goodwin was born Dennis Charles Zihff, 1916 in Bethnal Green, London. (The name is more usually spelt `Ziff’ and is Hebrew for “wolf”.) His father, Phillip, born in Russia in 1878, was a […]
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Smith John Maynard
John Maynard Smith Smith was born in 1920 to a well-off family; on leaving school, joined the Communist Party when he began an engineering degree at Trinity College Cambridge. He was an aeronautical engineer […]
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Jeffreys Margot
A brief biography of Margot Jefferys by Graham Stevenson info@grahamstevenson.me.uk Born as Margaret Davies in Madras, India on 1st November 1916, she started out as an economic historian, graduating in 1938 from the London […]