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Evans Danny
Danny Evans Evans came into contact with the Communist Party more by accident than design. He was walking down a road in Cardiff, reading the Daily Worker as he went, when he was spotted doing […]
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Eddisford Vic
Vic Eddisford Eddisford was a leading member of the Young Communist League in his youth and came from Manchester. He is pictured here in 1950. He was a long-time full time official for the Communist […]
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Evans John
John Evans Evans was a member of the Communist Party in Battersea and chair of the highly vigorous Battersea Tenants’ Association. This even made a film in 1961, entitled “H only for House”, a reference […]
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Edwards Jack
Jack Edwards Born in Liverpool on 3 January 1914 into a family of socialists, Jack worked as a motor mechanic after leaving school and, as a member of the Young Communist League, was on […]
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Eaglesham Allan
Allan Eaglesham Born on 23rd August 1902 in Dumfriesshire, the son of a clergyman, he joined the Communist Party at the age of 18 in October 1920, as he went to Edinburgh University to study […]
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Easton Gladys
Gladys Easton Born in 1919, from a working class background, as Gladys Margaret French, she joined the Labour Party League of Youth at the age of 15 and was in the Lambeth Young Communist League […]
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Easton Sid
Sid Easton Born in London in 1911, Sid Easton’s maternal grandparents had left Russia to escape the pogroms; his mother married an English Jew and the family moved to the USA in 1913 but returned […]
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Ecclestone Alan
Alan Ecclestone Born in Stoke on Trent on 3rd June 1904, his father was a pottery painter but his mother was the radical one; she used to display a Home Rule for Ireland poster in […]
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Economides Michael
Michael Economides Born January 17th 1910 in Nicosia, the son of a wheat merchant. He left Cyprus at the age of 16 for Latin America but an illness delayed him en route and he ended […]
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Eden Jessie (McCulloch)
https://twitter.com/StarBirmingham?lang=en The Real Jessie Eden and Peaky Blinders With the appearance of Jessie Eden as a main character in Peaky Blinders, as the biographer of the real Jessie, I found myself being asked about the […]