Harry and Mary Morris papers

Harry Morris, who was also known as H. D. Emery and George Weston, was involved in the Isle of Man bread strike in 1918 and then became an activist with the Coventry Unemployed Workers' Committee in 1920. Morris took part in the foundation of the Communist Party of Great Britain and spoke at the Leeds Unity Conference in 1921. He was the author of a pamphlet, "The Coming Revolution in Britain" c1921. In this period, Morris came to the attention of the police and was prosecuted at least twice - for the use of seditious language and also for his alleged part in a break-in at an arms company. Morris lived in the Soviet Union in the early 1920s with his family. He subsequently broke with orthodox Communism and became a Trotskyist. Harry Morris was a shop steward at De Havilland shortly before his death.

Mary Morris lived in the Soviet Union with her family, 1923-1928. Like her husband Harry, she was an activist on the Left and also a trade unionist. She remained politically active after her husband's death in 1942 and compiled her memoirs of her life in the Soviet Union with the help of her daughter Vera in the 1970s.

Vera Morris was the daughter of Harry Morris and his wife Mary. As part of her research into her parents' lives, she interviewed veteran British Trotskyists such as Harry Wicks.