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Alexander Baron, the Glossary

Alexander Baron (–) was a British author and screenwriter.^[1]

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People educated at Hackney Downs School
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A Family at War

A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972.

A Good Read

A Good Read is one of BBC Radio 4's longest-running programmes in which two guests join the main presenter to choose and discuss their favourite books.

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A Horseman Riding By

A Horseman Riding By is a sequence of 3 novels by R. F. Delderfield written between 1966 and 1968.

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Allied invasion of Italy

The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place from 3 September 1943, during the Italian campaign of World War II.

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The Allied invasion of Sicily, also known as the Battle of Sicily and Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II in which the Allied forces invaded the island of Sicily in July 1943 and took it from the Axis powers (Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany).

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Anthony Cartwright (writer)

Anthony J. Cartwright (born 1973) is a British novelist.

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Aurelian

Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus; 9 September 214 – November 275) was a Roman emperor who reigned from 270 to 275 during the Crisis of the Third Century.

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Battle of Cable Street

The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London, most notably Cable Street, on Sunday 4 October 1936.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Black Spring Press

Black Spring Press is an independent English publishing house founded in the early 1980s.

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Brian Sewell

Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell (15 July 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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Catania

Catania (Sicilian and) is the second-largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population.

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Chapel Market

Chapel Market is a daily street market in London.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups.

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East End of London

The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr.

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Hackney Downs School

Hackney Downs School was an 11–16 boys, community comprehensive secondary school in Lower Clapton, Greater London, England.

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Hamish Henderson

(James) Hamish Scott Henderson (11 November 1919 – 9 March 2002) was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist, intellectual and soldier. Alexander Baron and Hamish Henderson are Royal Pioneer Corps soldiers.

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Hampstead

Hampstead is an area in London, England, which lies northwest of Charing Cross, and extends from the A5 road (Roman Watling Street) to Hampstead Heath, a large, hilly expanse of parkland.

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Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM), is a British national museum.

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International Brigades

The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

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Italian campaign (World War II)

The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

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Ivanhoe (1970 TV series)

Ivanhoe was a BBC television series from 1970.

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Jane Eyre (1983 TV serial)

Jane Eyre is a 1983 British television serial adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Julian Amyes.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape (1879–1960), who was head of the firm until his death.

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La Malinche

Marina or Malintzin (1500 – 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche, a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, became known for contributing to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521), by acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

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Labour League of Youth

The Labour League of Youth (LLY) was the youth organisation of the British Labour Party from 1926 to 1960,Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Borough of Hackney

The London Borough of Hackney is a London borough in Inner London, England.

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Maidenhead

Maidenhead is a market town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in the county of Berkshire, England, on the southwestern bank of the River Thames.

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Mont Pinçon

Mont Pinçon is the highest point of the Department of Calvados, in Normandy, with an elevation of.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie; Normaundie, Nouormandie; from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second World War.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Oliver Twist (1985 TV serial)

Oliver Twist is a 1985 BBC TV serial.

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Operation Cobra

Operation Cobra was an offensive launched by the First United States Army under Lieutenant General Omar Bradley seven weeks after the D-Day landings, during the Normandy campaign of World War II.

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Operation Jupiter (1944)

Operation Jupiter was an offensive by VIII Corps of the British Second Army from 10 to 11 July 1944.

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Operation Overlord

Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.

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Palmyrene Empire

The Palmyrene Empire was a short-lived breakaway state from the Roman Empire resulting from the Crisis of the Third Century.

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Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984.

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Poldark (1975 TV series)

Poldark is the original version of the BBC television series adaptation of the novels of the same title written by Winston Graham.

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Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public research university in Mile End, East London, England.

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Robbery Under Arms (1957 film)

Robbery Under Arms is a 1957 British crime film directed by Jack Lee and starring Peter Finch and Ronald Lewis.

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Royal Free Hospital

The Royal Free Hospital (also known simply as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden.

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Royal Pioneer Corps

The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant and non-combatant corps used for light engineering tasks.

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Screenwriter

A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, and video games, are based.

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Sean Longden

Sean Longden (born 1965 in Clapham, Bedfordshire, England) is an author and historian who specialises in British social history during World War II, his work extensively uses oral history interviews and first person accounts.

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Sense and Sensibility (1981 TV series)

Sense and Sensibility is a 1981 BBC television adaptation of Jane Austen's 1811 novel.

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Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes is the overall title given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by the British television company Granada Television between 24 April 1984 and 11 April 1994.

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Sicily

Sicily (Sicilia,; Sicilia,, officially Regione Siciliana) is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy.

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Sort of Books

Sort of Books is an independent British publishing house started in 1999 by Mark Ellingham and Natania Jansz, founders of the Rough Guides travel series.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Ted Willis, Baron Willis

Edward Henry Willis, Baron Willis (13 January 1914 – 22 December 1992) was an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter who was also politically active in support of the Labour Party. Alexander Baron and Ted Willis, Baron Willis are communist Party of Great Britain members and English male screenwriters.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV serial)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1982 British television serial made by the BBC.

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The Siege of Pinchgut

The Siege of Pinchgut (released in the US as Four Desperate Men) is a 1959 British thriller filmed on location in Sydney, Australia, and directed by Harry Watt.

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The Siege of Sidney Street

The Siege of Sidney Street, also known as The Siege of Hell Street, is a 1960 British historical drama film co-directed by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, and starring Donald Sinden, Nicole Berger and Kieron Moore.

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The Victors (1963 film)

The Victors is a 1963 British-American war film written, produced and directed by Carl Foreman.

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Tribune (magazine)

Tribune is a democratic socialist political magazine founded in 1937 and published in London, initially as a newspaper, then converting to a magazine in 2001.

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Unity Theatre, London

Unity Theatre was a theatre club which existed between 1936-1994, and was initially based in St Judes Hall, Britannia Street, Somers Town, London NW1.

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University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial)

Vanity Fair is a 1987 BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of sixteen 35 minute episodes.

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Victory in Europe Day

Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945; it marked the official end of World War II in Europe in the Eastern Front, with the last known shots fired on 11 May.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Baron

Also known as Baron, Alexander, From the City from the Plough.

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Alexander Baron, the Glossary

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People educated at Hackney Downs School

Writers from Hackney Central

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