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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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Bernal J D
John Desmond Bernal was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland, on 10th May 1901. In early life, his family called him `Desmond’ but, throughout his adult life he was widely referred to, publicly, as […]
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Berry Norman
Norman Berry Norman Berry was a leading activist for the Communist Party in Halifax and a well known fighter for the working class in the town. He had been an officer in army but found he […]
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Beauchamp Kay
Kay Beauchamp Kay Beauchamp was an inspiring and motivational character with some seven decades of a leading role in British Communism to her credit, chalking up an impressive record of agitational work, helping found the […]
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Berryman Blanche
Blanche Berryman Blanche (nee Dowsett) from East Sheen became educated through a scholarship. She went on to King’s College London. There she met Jack, her husband of 68 years, and both became first Communists and […]
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Betteridge Marie
Marie Betteridge Born into a working-class family in Islington in 1922, Marie was brought up in Lewis buildings, in Liverpool Road, Islington. She attended Laycock School before winning a scholarship to Highbury Hill High […]
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Birch Betty
Betty Birch Betty Birch was born on 2nd March 1930 in Rothwell, Northamptonshire, the second child of Walter Andrew, a boot and shoe worker, and his wife Ruth, who came from the Forest of Dean, […]
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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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Birch Chris
Christopher Berkeley Peyton Birch was born in 1928 in St Kitts, which was then the British West Indies, the son of Norman Peyton Birch and Iris Berkeley King. St Kitts was the same small island where […]
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Blessed Billy
Bill Blessed Probably born in Doncaster in 1906 to a miner, Blessed was a long-term member of the Communist Party, based in the mining village of Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire, now part of the borough […]