Amanda Fee

Harry Young (B.1901-1996): Home and Family

Harry grew up in Islington, London, on the busy and bustling Holloway Road, or ‘The Hollow’ as named by its residents. He …

In a wide sense, Harry’s memoirs recount many rare experiences and opportunities which he felt lucky to experience and these memoirs are …

From a very young age, Harry was involved in politics. His cousin, Fred, persuaded his parents to send him to the local …

Harry began his schooling at the age of four and ended at thirteen. Due to the reclamation of their house in Stoke …

‘I have written it down, just as it flowed. Nothing added, nothing taken away. No preservatives, no colouring matter. The boosing and …

Recollections of wartime play a great part in Harry’s memoir. As a Comintern, he experienced a unique side to the war that …

Harry writes of how being in the communist youth party changed his habits from quitting smoking to taking up physical activity. …

Harry began his working life at the age of 13 after attaining a leaving certificate from his school Headmaster. As mentioned in …

As mentioned in ‘Education & Schooling’, Harry picked up a habit of reading in his school years as he travelled to Islington …

‘(T)his is the story of 60 years of a very eventful life in the most eventful period of social history spanning the …