British Activist
1. Mary Whitehouse (1910)
British Activist
Remembered for her socially conservative activism, she led the Clean-Up TV group, spoke out against an LGBT rights publication titled Gay News, and objected to Royal National Theatre productions as...
2. Bill Travers (1922)
British Activist
English actor, director and screenwriter who starred in many films in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1968, he appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and in 1957, he played Robert...
3. Tom Hurndall (1981)
British Activist
Thomas Tom Hurndall was a British photography student a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. On 11 April 2003...
4. Jill Saward (1965)
British Activist
Jill Saward is best known as the victim of the 1986 Ealing Vicarage Rape a crime that scandalized the UK and led indirectly to changes in the law. She was...
5. Mary Burns (1821)
British Activist
Mary Burns was a working-class Irish woman best known as the lifelong partner of Friedrich Engels. Burns lived in Salford near Manchester England. She met Engels during his first stay...
6. Scilla Elworthy (1943)
British Activist
Scilla Elworthy is a peace activist and the founder of the Oxford Research Group a non-governmental organisation she set up in 1982 to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers...
7. Walter Wolfgang (1923)
British Activist
Jakob Wolfgang is a German-born British socialist and peace activist. He is Vice President and Vice Chair of Labour of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a supporter of the...
8. Angie Zelter (1951)
British Activist
Angie Zelter is an activist and the founder of a number of international campaign groups including Trident Ploughshares and the International Woman's Peace Service. Zelter is known for non-violent direct...
9. Jane Tomlinson (1964)
British Activist
Jane Emily Tomlinson CBE was an amateur English athlete who raised £1. 85 million for charity by completing a series of athletic challenges despite suffering from terminal cancer. Having had...
10. Pat Jordan (1928)
British Activist
Pat Jordan was a British Trotskyist who was central to founding the International Marxist Group. Jordan was born in Chelsea London the son of an electrical engineer.
11. Helen Joseph (1905)
British Activist
Helen Beatrice Joseph was a South African anti-apartheid activist.
12. Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy (Unknow)
British Activist
Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme Elmy was an English essayist and poet who also wrote under the pseudonyms E Ellis Ellis Ethelmer and Ignota. She was baptised on 15 December 1833 in...
13. Simon Sheppard (activist) (Unknow)
British Activist
Simon Guy Sheppard is a British political activist from Hull England who runs a number of websites promoting his far right and racist views; his main website contains many articles...
14. Mark Sutcliffe (1979)
British Activist
Mark Sutcliffe MBE joined the British Army in 1997 aged 17 enlisting into the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment The Poachers initially joining C Company. In 1999 he was...
15. Ben Summerskill (1961)
British Activist
Ben Jeffrey Peter Summerskill OBE was the Chief Executive of the UK-based lesbian gay and bisexual equality organisation Stonewall the largest gay equality body in Europe from 2003 to 2014....
