Historian, trade unionist, communist revolutionary
Organization
The Bach Choir
Known for
Smuggling funds to anti-colonial Indians and communists. Writing volumes 3 & 4 of the official history of the CPGB.
Notable work
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Volume 3 (1985) & Volume 4 (1997)
Political party
Independent Labour Party (1931) Communist Party of Great Britain (1932–1991)
Spouse
Clive Branson
(m. 1931; died 1944)
Children
Rosa Branson
Relatives
Henry Ulick Browne, 5th Marquess of Sligo (paternal grandfather)
Noreen Branson (16 May 1910 – 25 October 2003) was a British communist activist, historian, founder of Revolt newspaper, and a life-long member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). In 1931 she married fellow communist and International Brigadeer, Clive Branson, and in 1934 she carried out a mission for Harry Pollitt to smuggle funding to Indian communists resisting the British colonial occupation of India.[1] Noreen Branson was most known for her work as a historian, working as a researcher for the Labour Research Department, collaborating with historians Eric Hobsbawm and Roger Simon, and writing the 3rd and 4th volumes of the CPGB's official history.
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NoreenBranson (16 May 1910 – 25 October 2003) was a British communist activist, historian, founder of Revolt newspaper, and a life-long member of the...
the Tate Gallery. His wife was NoreenBranson (16 May 1910 – 25 October 2003). Their daughter is the artist Rosa Branson (born 1933). He was an active...
Branson MBE (born 1933) is a British painter and fabric designer, living in Highgate, London. She is the daughter of Clive Branson and NoreenBranson...
Press, 2012. NoreenBranson, History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1927–1941. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985. NoreenBranson, History of...
thirties, 1919–1940 (Faber & Faber, 2014). Branson, Noreen. Britain in the Nineteen Twenties (1976). Branson, Noreen and Margot Heinemann. Britain in the Nineteen...
societies (Macmillan, 1980). Branson, Noreen, and Margot Heinemann. Britain in the Nineteen Thirties (1971) pp 180–201. Branson, Noreen. Britain in the Nineteen...
Adventurers, 1960 (novel) Britain in the Nineteen Thirties, 1971 (with NoreenBranson) Experiments in English Teaching - New Work in Higher and Further Education...
Pandurang Shastri Athavale, 83, Indian philosopher and social activist. NoreenBranson, 93, British political activist and historian of the Communist Party...
restoration 2008, after restoration Detail of George Lansbury Detail NoreenBranson, "Poplarism, 1919–1925: George Lansbury and the councillors' revolt"...
Research Institutes (TURI) network. List of trade unions Margot Heinemann NoreenBranson Labour Research Department @LRDunionnews on Twitter LRD on facebook...
Leeds. Pablo Picasso Rutland Boughton Alec Wainman British Battalion NoreenBranson "Laurence Henderson Bradshaw - Mapping the Practice and Profession of...
ISBN 0-14-008761-3 Poplarism, 1919–25: George Lansbury and the Councillors' Revolt NoreenBranson (Lawrence & Wishart, 1980) ISBN 0-85315-434-1 Breaking the General Strike...
History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which was continued by NoreenBranson. He also wrote the controversial From Trotsky to Tito (1951), justifying...
Capstick, actor (born 1944) Pete Chisman, cyclist (born 1940) 25 October – NoreenBranson, Communist activist (born 1910) 27 October – Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz...
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colonial administrator and Governor-General of Algeria from 1919 to 1921. NoreenBranson (June 1979). Poplarism, 1919-1925: George Lansbury and the councillors'...
"Robin Page Arnot", Communist Biographies. Retrieved 29 August 2009. NoreenBranson, The Communist Party of Great Britain, 1927–1941. London: Lawrence and...
sometimes found themselves picketing through weeks of winter cold.” NoreenBranson notes "It was the women who did the picketing, women who often dominated...
S. Lees, "Who's Who of British MPs" Vol. IV (Harvester Press, 1981) NoreenBranson, "Poplarism 1919–1925: George Lansbury and the Councillors' Revolt"...
Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars (2009), pp 60–62 NoreenBranson, Britain in the Nineteen Twenties (1976) pp 103–17. Hansard 1803–2005:...
August 1935. Retrieved 21 October 2012 – via British Newspaper Archive. NoreenBranson (1979). Poplarism, 1919-1925: George Lansbury and the councillors' revolt...
include the archives of politicians and activists such as Jack Gaster, NoreenBranson, Aubrey Bowman and Bernie Grant, as well as organisations such as the...
Cooperative Limited. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-907464-45-4. Klugmann, James; Branson, Noreen; T. Callaghan, John; Andrews, Geoff (1985). History of the Communist...
Mora, Levi Nunez, Jason Pace, Richard Penn, Paige Pollack, David Randolph, Noreen Reardon, Vernon Scott, Cheryl Tyre Smith, Ruth Zalduondo, Renny Harlin The...
Washington House of Representatives (2003–2013) and Senate (2013–2020) (b. 1943) Noreen Nash, 99, actress (The Big Fix, Phantom from Space, Giant) (b. 1924) Richard...
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