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Kettle Arnold
Arnold Kettle Professor Arnold Kettle was an outstanding Marxist literary critic and a life-long member of the Communist Party, which he joined as a student at Cambridge. Arnold Kettle During the Second World War, he […]
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Klugmann James
James Klugmann The son of a prosperous Jewish merchant, James Klugmann was actually born Norman John Klugmann in London 0n 27th February 1912. In his youth, he started using James as a first name […]
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Knight Frida
Frida Knight Born Frideswide Frances Emma Stewart on 11th November 1910, her Cambridge childhood was privileged but her family was always interested in social causes. Her father was reader in French at Cambridge University and […]
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Kooyman Jim
Jim Kooyman Born in 1922, Kooyman was a shop steward and then London full-time organiser for the Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union (FTAT). He was, from 1976 to 1986, the union’s Assistant General Secretary; […]
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Kosky Rose
Rose Kosky Born in London’s East End, the third of four sisters and a brother in a close Jewish family. Her parents were working-class Polish immigrants. Rose won a scholarship, but the grammar school was […]