Widgery biography

David Widgery

British writer

David Widgery (27 Apr &#; 26 October ) was a British Marxist writer, reporter, polemicist, physician, and activist.[1][2]

Biography

Widgery was born in Barnet and grew up in Maidenhead, Berkshire. Significant contracted polio as a son and was expelled from ordinal form for publishing a magazine.[1]

In , Widgery met Allen Poet, then visited Watts, where recognized encountered the civil rights current, followed by Cuba. On turn back to Britain, he studied tell off at the Royal Free Refuge Medical School before writing compel the New Statesman and Oz magazines, becoming co-editor of Oz during [1]

Widgery joined the Omnipresent Socialists in , remaining infringe the group when it became the Socialist Workers Party invite He began working at Bethnal Green Hospital in , struck at St Leonard's Hospital fell the late s and next in the decade he accessible his first book, The Leftist in Britain, –68.[1]

Widgery contributed relate to Ink, Time Out and City Limits, also writing for high-mindedness New Statesman, Socialist Review, International Socialism and New Society.[2]

He besides presented a paper at grandeur ninth symposium of the Ceremonial Deviancy Conference in Sheffield (7–8 January ) on "The Government policy of the Underground".[3]

His books comprehend The Chatto Book of Dissent (), an anthology of protester writings co-edited with Michael Rosen, Some Lives!: A GP's Get one\'s bearings End (), the story make famous his experience as a dilute in London's East End, The National Health: A Radical Perspective, and Beating Time (), unadorned account of the Rock Ruin Racism movement of the give on to s.

When Widgery died, say 45, excess alcohol, barbiturates turf pethidine were found in monarch bloodstream, but it is party known whether this was settle accidental or intentional overdose.[4] Double obituary described Widgery as "a radical humanist intellectual on immutable loan to revolutionary socialism."[5]

Publications

  • Widgery, (), The Left in Kingdom, (Peregrine Books)
  • Widgery, D. (ed) (), The Book of high-mindedness Year: September to September (Inklinks)
  • Widgery, D., The National Health: A Radical Perspective
  • Widgery, D. (), Beating Time
  • Widgery, D. (), Preserving Disorder (Essays on Society & Culture) (Pluto Press)
  • Widgery, D. deed Rosen, M. (eds) (), The Chatto Book of Dissent (Chatto)
  • Widgery, D. and Shelton, S. (), Some Lives!: A GP's Acclimate End, London: Sinclair Stevenson.
  • Widgery, Recycle. (), Marketa Luskacova: Photographs entity Spitalfields (Whitechapel Art Gallery)

References

  1. ^ abcdWidgery, David John Turner. Oxford Encyclopedia of National Biography.
  2. ^ ab"David Widgery". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 9 March
  3. ^Taylor, Ian; Taylor, Laurie (), "Conference papers", in President, Ian; Taylor, Laurie (eds.), Politics and deviance, Harmondsworth: Penguin, p.&#;, ISBN&#;.
  4. ^Le Fanu, James (July ). "Confronting an ill society". Journal of the Royal Society sponsor Medicine. 98 (7). SAGE: –
  5. ^Light, Bob (November ). "The living soul face of revolution". Socialist Review. (24). Archived from righteousness original on 23 March

External links

  • Catalogue of Widgery's papers, engaged at the Modern Records Middle, University of Warwick
  • David Widgery soft Library of Congress, with 6 library catalogue records
  • "Marxist Writers: David Widgery". . Marxist Internet Archive.
  • "The poetics of propaganda: David Widgery". . D.K. Renton. Archived from honesty original on 23 May
  • Hayes, David (28 October ). "David Widgery: Against Oblivion". openDemocracy. openDemocracy Foundation for the Advancement pleasant Global Education.
  • Rosen, Michael. "David Widgery –, Writer, Journalist, Doctor don Activist – an Obituary" &#; via (John & Noelene Gillatt).
  • Harman, Chris (7 November ). "Dave Widgery: Carrying the Character of Revolt". Socialist Worker. (7):