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Leslie Morton (medicine)
Arthur Leslie Morton (4 July 1903 – 23 October 1987) was an English Marxist historian. He worked as an independent scholar; from 1946 onwards he was the Chair of the Historians Group of the CPGB, Historians Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He is best known for ''A People's History of England'', but he also did valuable work on William Blake and the Ranters, and for the study ''The English Utopia''. Life Morton was born in Suffolk, the son of a Yorkshire farmer."R. W." {23 February 2014"A.L.Morton,1903-1987" (obituary)''Morris Society''. Accessed: February 2014 He had two siblings, a sister Kathleen and a brother Max. He attended school in Bury St Edmunds, Bury until he was 16 and then at boarding school in Eastbourne. He then studied the English tripos at Peterhouse, Cambridge from 1921 to 1924, graduating with a third-class degree.Staff (19 June 1924) "University News" ''The Times'' While at Cambridge, he developed friends around the Labour group, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowestoft, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, and Felixstowe which has one of the largest container ports in Europe. The county is low-lying but can be quite hilly, especially towards the west. It is also known for its extensive farming and has largely arable land with the wetlands of the Broads in the north. The Suffolk Coast & Heaths and Dedham Vale are both nationally designated Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. History Administration The Anglo-Saxon settlement of Suffolk, and East Anglia generally, occurred on a large scale, possibly following a period of depopulation by the previous inhabitants, the Romanised descendants of the Iceni. By the fifth century, they had established control of the region. The Anglo-Saxon inhabitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
