Robert Barltrop

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Robert Barltrop (born 1922) was an English socialist activist, essayist, and biographer.

Barltrop grew up in the East End of London, descended from a long line of blacksmiths, although his father was a horse fodder dealer; he educated at the Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow. During World War II, he served with the Royal Air Force.

He was for many years a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. He has had various careers and has been a professional boxer, a labourer, a strip cartoonist, a schoolteacher and a sign-painter. Barltrop has also published widely and his books include: The Monument: Story of the Socialist Party of Great Britain (1975), Jack London: The Man, the Writer, the Rebel (1977), Muvver Tongue with Jim Wolveridge (1980), A Funny Age (Growing up in North East London between the Wars) (1985) and Yes Mush: A Cockney Dictionary: The Cockney Language and Its World (2004).

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• Collection Description of the Robert Barltrop archive, held at the Bishopsgate Institute, London.