At its height, the Communist Party of Great Britain had 60,000 members, with over 1,000 in my subsequently adopted hometown of Nottingham. Even at its dissolution, there were over 6,000 members ...

the Communist Party. He cared deeply about the rights of the working class, in India and in Britain, and believed that only socialism - and not any imperialist regime - could eradicate poverty and ...

Frustrated, Sylvia refused to participate in the founding conference of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in July ...

who joined other Independent Labour Party members in co-founding the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920. The following year she travelled to Moscow and met leading communist figures Leon ...

THIS is the first attempt to date by anyone to compile a comprehensive catalogue of publications issued by the Communist Party over its lifetime. Based on meticulous research over many years, Dave ...

We often think of communism as a threat to the British way of life, but in this series historian Camilla Schofield explores a century-long thread of communism in Britain. Show more Historian ...

The Welsh coal industry, with its hundreds of thousands of workers from the 19th century onwards, was ripe for the formation of unions. However, it was comparatively slow to adopt this form of job ...