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Scanlon Hugh
Hugh Scanlon Hugh Parr Scanlon was born on 26th October 1913 in Melbourne, Australia, to parents who had emigrated from Britain. His mother brought him to Britain at the age of two after she […]
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Faulkner Hugh
Hugh Faulkner Born on September 22nd 1912, Hugh Faulkner was a serving member of the Royal Army Medical Corp, during the Second World War. There, he had contact with Communist partisans and observed their medical […]
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Davies Hugh Sykes
Hugh Sykes Davies Davies, born in Yorkshire in 1909, was an English poet, novelist and Communist who was one of a small group of 1930s British surrealists. He was a student at Cambridge University, where […]
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Sloan Hugh
Hugh Sloan Hugh Smith Sloan was born on August 21st 1912 in Cowdenbeath. His father, Richard, was a pit sinker and miner, who came from Kilmarnock at a time when coal was being developed in […]
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Wyper Hugh
Hugh Wyper Born in 1922, Hugh Wyper was a life-long Communist. A member of the National Union of Sheetmetalworkers and Coppersmiths, he was the convenor of shop stewards at the Association of Electrical Industries (AEI) […]
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Styler Hugh
Hugh Styler A trade union activist from the age of 15, Styler was a leader and organiser of the 1926 strike committee in Maryport, Cumbria. He was an activist and lifelong member of ASLEF, the […]
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MacDiarmid Hugh (Christopher Grieve)
Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Grieve) Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen-name of the poet Christopher Murray Grieve and the name by which he is generally remembered. A declared Communist continously from the late 1920s, he was actually […]