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Litterick Mrs
Mrs Litterick The President of the Brecon, Wales, Co-operative Women�s Guild, she stood as a Communist candidate in 1946 in local elections. As a result, her Guild branch was suspended because they refused to remove […]
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Litchfield Mary
Mary Litchfield A Communist teacher, who lived in Forfarshire and Fife, Mary Litchfield was prominent in Scottish literary circles in the 1930s. She knew Grassic Gibbon well, spending time with him and his wife; Edwin […]
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Lismer Ted
Edward ‘Ted’ Lismer Ted Lismer was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1883, the eldest son of six children of Edward Lismer (a draper in a department store) and his wife Harriett. We can gain […]
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Lindsay Jack
Jack Lindsay Despite having written, translated, and edited well over 150 books, his work is relatively unknown both in Australia, where he was born, and in England. The English literary establishment has largely ignored him partly […]
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Lewis Dr John
Dr John Lewis In the 1930s, Lewis gave up his place as a Unitarian minister in Ipswich to take on the task of building a national network of Left Book Club discussion groups. During […]
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Levy Hyman
Hyman Levy Levy, who is remembered more widely as a mathematician and philosopher, was born the third of eight children in early 1889 in Edinburgh into an orthodox Jewish family, his father being an art […]
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Levitas Maurice “Morry”
Maurice "Morry" Levitas (Moishe ben Hillel) Born February 1st 1917, died February 14th 2001 – Levitas was by then one of the last surviving Irish veterans who served with the International Brigade in […]
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Leishman Jock
Jock Leishman Born in 1904, Leishman was by origin a Scottish Communist but lived for much of his later life in Birmingham. He was one of the legendary breed of Communists in the 1930s, which […]
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Leeson Phil
Phil Leeson Born in Barnton, Cheshire, on November 28 1925, he was educated at Sir John Deane’s grammar school, Northwich. From 1943 to 1947, he served in the army in the Royal Signals. He read […]
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Lees Billy
Billy Lees An active and leading member of the Nottingham Communist Party, which was established as early as August 1920, Lees was also an Executive member of the Nottingham Trades Council and was arrested along […]