Nick Heath

Content by or about Nick Heath, a British anarchist, retired library worker, historian and member of the Anarchist Communist Group. He is the author of The Idea: Anarchist Communism, Past, Present and Future, published 2022.

Nick Heath

Anarchist speakers - Ted Leggatt, top row, right.

Leggatt, Edward (Ted) 1858-1946

A short biography of Ted Leggatt, anarchist and carman

W K Hall

Hall, W.K (1855- no later than 1912)- first names William Knight

A very short biography of WK Hall who moved from parliamentary socialism to an anarchist position

Agnes Henry

Henry, Agnes 1850-1915

A short biography of Agnes Henry, active in the British anarchist movement in the 1880s-1890s

Stig Dagerman

Dagerman, Stig: Anarchist writer

An account of the life and work of Stig Dagerman, Swedish existentialist and anarchist writer

Portet, Lorenzo 1870-1917

A short account of the life of Lorenzo Portet, active alongside Francisco Ferrer and an anarchist militant in Spain, Argentina, France and Liverpool.

Dr William King - founder of 'The Cooperator' magazine

Anarchism and syndicalism in Brighton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

A short account of anarchism and syndicalism in Brighton in the 1890s-1910s.

Parker, William Brand, c.1855- 193?

A short biography of William Brand Parker (usually known as W.B. Parker), anarchist active in the Socialist League who later moved to the ILP and pro-war politics.

Motler, Leonard Augustine, 1888-1967

A short biography of Leonard Motler, English anarchist, deaf mute and activist against the First World War.

Georges Fontenis

Fontenis, Georges 1920-2010

A biography of Georges Fontenis, one of the most controversial figures of the French libertarian movement.

Abercrave Miners' banner

Spanish anarchists in the Welsh valleys

A short account of the Spanish miners in South Wales and their relationship - sometimes positive, sometimes strained - with the local mining…

Putilov factory meeting - Petrograd 1917

The Black Guards

A short account of the Anarchist Black Guards and their suppression by the Bolsheviks in Moscow in 1918

Jerzy Borejsza alias Maxime Ranko

Ranko, Maxime, 1905-1952: the man behind the name

A short biography of Maxime Ranko, real name Benjamin Goldberg (1905-1952), later to be known as Jerzy Borejsza, ardent Platformist, then pillar…