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Hill Howard
Howard Hill Born in Sheffield in 1913, Hill trained as an electrician, working initially in various local collieries and steelworks and he was a member of the ETU. In the 1930s he was a […]
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Hill Denis
Denis Hill Denis Hill (1929-94) was himself a working-class bloke from provincial Brighton, where he spent all his life apart from his two or three years in Prague. He had worked in various clerical […]
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Hilton Rodney
Rodney Hilton Hilton was one of the leading medieval historians of the 20th century, and a leading figure in Marxist historiography. A lasting achievement of his was to open up understanding of the real lives […]
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Hobday Charles
Charles Hobday Hobday was born on September 9th 1917, in Eastbourne, six months after the death of his father, a professional soldier. A sickly, but not unhappy, child, he enjoyed silent films and reading, not […]
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Holmes Walter
Walter Holmes Born in 1892, his father was a long-standing and loyal member of the ASE. The young Walter was imprisoned for conscientious objection, from 1916-19. Holmes had been directly involved in working with Sylvia Pankhurst […]
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Horn Joshua (Dr)
Dr. Joshua Samuel Horn Joshua Horn started life as a poor boy, born in London in 1914, of parents who were refugees from the Russian pogroms. Horn studied medicine by way of a scholarship at University College, […]
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Hodgkin Thomas
Thomas Hodgkin Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born in 1910 and came from a distinguished Quaker academic background; his father was a history don at Queen’s college, Oxford university, and his mother was a daughter of […]
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Hodgson Geoff
Geoff Hodgson Geoff Hodgson was born in 1920 and was Leeds, born and bred. He was employed in local government and had six years’ war service, five of them abroad. He was a member of […]
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Holt Billy
Billy Holt William Holt was born in Todmorden, in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, in 1897, the eldest son of a coal merchant. At the age of 13, whilst working in a cotton weaving […]
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