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le Brocq Norman
. Norman le Brocq Born in Jersey in 1922, Norman le Brocq is famed in the Channel Islands for his participation in the resistance to German occupation in the Second World War. This was […]
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Lawton Gilbert
Gilbert Lawton John Gilbert Lawton, on leaving school, went to work on his local newspaper. He joined the Communist Party in the 1930s. He was soon in London, on the Daily Worker, covering stunts organised […]
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Lazarus Abe
Abe Lazarus Abe Lazarus was born, from a Jewish background, in Chiswick in 1911 and joined the Communist Party at Hammersmith in 1930. He played a key role in the Firestone strike in 1933 […]
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Lansbury Minnie (nee Glassman)
Minnie Lansbury (nee Glassman) Minnie Glassman was born of Jewish parents in Whitechapel, Stepney in 1889 She became a school teacher and married Edgar Lansbury (George Lansbury's son) in 1914. In 1915 she became a […]
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Lansbury (Isaac) Edgar
Edgar (Isaac) Lansbury Son of the famous Labour leader George Lansbury, Edgar (as he was always known) was born in 1887. His early life was spent in Poplar and as a young man he entered […]
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Langton Win
Winifred Langton Born in Plaistow, in east London, one of six children on May 20th 1909. Three of her siblings had earlier died in the 1902 smallpox epidemic. Her mother was a working class suffragette […]