About the Author
Lawrence Irvine Iles (Larry Iles) is an activist, a fifty-six year old freelance political British historian based both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Epson 1954, he graduated from John Fisher School Sixth Form Centre, Croydon, with results that included l972 Grade Special Distinction highest award in Modern History and Cambridge Special Paper Advanced Level Exams.
He since attained many MA degrees, honors, and awards, and has taught in numerous universities. He broadcasts and publishes frequently as a UK Labour Party and Co-Operative History member on first women UK Labour Members of Parliament and Radical Liberal and Labour Members of Parliament.
He also publishes contemporary and modern history politics letters and essays in Truman State University’s The Index, The Monitor, The Gadfly and other UK publications, like Tribune and Socialist Worker Weekly Letterscolumns. He gave the Anti-Gulf War I case in 1991 UK Channel IV Right to Reply program. He has served in public life as l996 Executive elective member Hove Constituency Labour Party, and vote raised as Labour candidate 1991 Stanford ward Hove Borough Council and same ward l993 East Sussex County Council. He was in l975 Chairperson Newcastle upon Tyne University Liberal Society.
Since 2005, he has been an Honorary Researcher at Bibliothèque François Mitterand National Archives, Paris, France, in History. And he has been a past American Historical Association Convention Travel Scholarship (1985) and Best Foreign Self-Supporting Independent Scholar Awardee (New York City).