Survivor of the Great Depression, RAF veteran Activist for the Welfare State Author of Harry's Last Stand Love Among the Ruins, 1923 & The Empress of Australia
In the snug of a pub while the storms of austerity batter Britain, I chat with you about the effects of poverty during the Great Depression when the Y...
Our world is much like the world of my youth;we are all working the coal face for pennies a day. Our wages are flat but our expenses are rising while ...
My name is Harry Leslie Smith. My life is at eventide because I will be 95 in February 2018. For close to one hundred years, I have witnessed humanity...
Harry Leslie Smith reads from his recently published book Don't Let My Past Be Your Future Britain is at its most dangerous juncture since Harry's you...
I have lived almost 100 years and I am approaching the long night of nonexistence, but I am not afraid because I have survived much turmoil: the Great...
Until Labour came to government in 1945, I couldn’t believe that the working class would ever be treated as equal citizens in a society run for the be...
We are a nation unhappily and unfairly divided by wealth and privilege.It seems people died in Grenfell because they just weren’t wealthy enough to wa...
On June 8th, you have to rise up and be counted because you are worth more than flat wages. You are worth more than eternal austerity. You are worth m...