Born Moscow into an ancient aristocratic Russian family and highly educated but his sympathies were with the peasants who had looked after him as a child. His revolutionary activities brought exile to Switzerland and France and to London in 1881 and again 1886 - 1917. Here he mixed with William Morris, Ford Madox Ford and Keir Hardie and co-founded the Freedom Press. Lived in Harrow and Bromley.
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Peter Kropotkin
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Anarchists
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Henry Reader Williams
JP, chairman of the Hornsey School and Hornsey Local Board. Active in the Poor Schools movement, he was an early campaigner for the education and welfare of children. He also led the campaign to ...
Samuel Gurney
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Nina I. Baird
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Lehmann Gluckstein
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Sigmund Freud
Founding father of psychoanalysis. Born Morovia. In 1860 the family settled in Vienna where he studied, began his career and married. In 1875 he visited his half-brothers in Manchester, and again ...
Lionel Barnett
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