Communist Party

The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money...

IM was offered a scholarship to continue her studies in the United States, but was unable to accept, as she was denied a visa on the grounds of her former involvement with the Communist Party

At the same time as applying for her place at Newnham, she kept her options open by applying for a lectureship at Sheffield University and a place at Vassar in New York State, as...

From this point the East London Federation of Suffragettes dropped its connection with the WSPU. In 1916, on hearing about an anti-conscription rally organized by Sylvia, Emmeline Pankhurst cabled from America: Strongly repudiate Sylvia's foolish...

Through the Communist PartyET met Raymond or Ray Russell , a railwayman's son who was apprenticed in the furniture-making business but longed to be a painter. She wrote of their early involvement: I...

CP publicly announced that Sylvia Pankhurst 's East London Federation would no longer be attached to the WSPU .

They shared their involvement in Communist politics. Communists, however, did not recognize the prohibitions of bourgeois morality and Tillie continued to make love with other men besides her husband. By her twenty-third birthday...

In January 1914, CP called Sylvia to Paris to demand that Sylvia's East London Federation should break its ties to the WSPU . Although their mother's suffragist impulse had originally grown in close relation to...

JK 's adoptive mother (my mum), Helen Kay , was (like her husband) a white Communist Party activist. She came from Lochgelly in Fife, where her father was a miner, and...

JK 's adoptive father, John Kay , a Glaswegian and a draughtsman by trade, left this job to become a full-time Communist Party worker. Years later he stood as Communist candidate for the Gorbals/Queen's...

RL met the businessman and would-be artist Wogan Philipps while living in Newcastle with her first husband. Becoming a lifelong Communist and a farmer during the Spanish Civil War, Philipps was the only Communist Party

DL 's father, Norman Levy , was the twin youngest child of Lithuanian immigrants. He was a teacher and an anti-apartheid campaigner: a Communist , a member of organizations like the banned African National Congress

Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.John Foxe gave it a still wider...

Although NC had received so much press attention during her research, there were not many reviews of NEGRO. The United States press largely ignored it. In London it was reviewed by the Daily Worker...

This story is set in Prague (ET 's birthplace), which is now under Communist rule. The protagonist, a traveller to the city, has a brief affair with a Russian, and later learns that everything...