Fred Douglas Douglas was a prominent Communist from Edinburgh and the assistant secretary of the National Unemployed Workers’ Committee Movement in the early 20s. (The featured image is of a 1933 NUWM demonstration in Edinburgh.) […]
J J Douglas Douglas was the Communist Party’s candidate for Morpeth, Northumberland, in November 1932. He was the only candidate in his election address to mention the then new “Means Test” unemployment Benefit. Yet some 600 […]
John Douglas John Douglas was a Leeds Communist Party member in the early 1930s. Also known as ‘Black Douggie’, according to Ernie Benson, he was one of the first black, or Afro-Caribbean, members of the […]
Douglas Garman Garman was born in 1903, one of nine children born to a GP and his wife, Dr Walter and Marjorie Garman of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, who produced this family between 1901 and 1916. […]
Douglas Hyde Born on April 8th 1911, Douglas Hyde came from a Methodist background. He would attend “Spouters’ Corner” on the BristolDowns and, after hearing Wal Hannington speak on the executed Sacco and Vanzetti, he […]
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