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Thiele Peter
Peter Thiele Unusually for the time, Peter Thiele left Norfolk Labour Party to join the Communist Party in 1956. He was a regular contributor to Country Standard, the Party’s rural journal. By 1961, he […]
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Kerrigan Peter (docker and actor)
Peter Kerrigan (docker and actor) This Peter Kerrigan is not to be confused with his namesake, more famous in Communist Party circles, who was the Party’s Industrial Organiser. This Peter Kerrigan was born in 1916 […]
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Kerrigan Peter
Peter Kerrigan Peter Kerrigan (pictured left in 1975) was born 26th June 1899 in Hutchestown, Glasgow and educated at Hayfield School, Gorbals, and Elmvale School, Springburn. Apprenticed on the railways, until he joined the […]
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Copley Peter
Peter Copley Born on May 20th 1915 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, Peter Copley’s His parents were the printmaker John Copley and the painter Ethel Gabain, although one grandfather was a scientist. After changing his mind about […]
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Mauger Peter
Peter Mauger A Communist teacher in the 1950s, who wrote on the issue of banning American comics in Britain. He later became attracted to the Chinese Communist Party’s line.
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Smith Peter
Peter Smith Peter Leonard Niall Smith was born in Brighton, Sussex on 10th May 1914 and was educated at Canford school and then at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He left university with a MA honours degree […]
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Brearey Peter
Peter Brearey Born in Dewsbury, on December 23rd 1939, Peter Brearey was for a long time a freelance journalist, contributing towards many northern and other newspapers and journals. Latterly, he was the editor of the […]