Bevis Miller

Bevis Miller

Bevis Miller worked at University of Bristol. Lives in Priddy.

Education

• Studied at University of Southampton
• Went to Buckhurst Hill County High School

"Covid and Climate Change"

Bristol, Bath & Gloucester Communist Party of Britain March 2021.

Martin Graham CPB, Bevis Miller CPB, Scott Harvey YCL.

Comrades

Bevis Miller left.

"Red Lives"

The editors, Simon Meddick, Liz Payne and Phil Katz would like to express our thanks to all the contributors to this volume of Red Lives, who have given their time and work freely in the interests of ensuring these personal histories could be shared to inspire others.

Personal recollections and connections have been the principal source for the writers of these biographies, which makes this collection so special. Therefore our thanks go to: Kolya Abramsky, Bill Adam, Mary Aldridge, Brian Allbutt, Arthur Attwood, Meic Birtwistle, Annie Banham, Martin Brown, John Campbell, Colin Carritt, Jennie Chesterton, Joe Clark, Tony Conway, Andy Croft, Mary Davis, Lesley Discum, Megan Dobney, Lorraine Douglas, Paul Dunn, John Ellison, Dan Evans, Ann Field, John Foster, John Fox, Susan Galloway, Tom Gill, Alex Gordon, Bill Greenshields, Robert Griffiths, Liane Groves, Anita Halpin, Jonathan Havard, David Horsley, Pat Jay, Ben Jay, Cad Jones, Roger Jones, Meirian Jump, Chris Kaufman, Phil Katz, Ken Keable, George Kerr, Tam Kirby, Peter Lazenby, Martin Levy, Eleanor Lewington, Alex Maxwell, Rosie McGregor, Bevis Miller, Laura Miller, Tommy Morrison, Kevan Nelson, Cynthia Oughton, Liz Payne, Mike Pentelow Evan Pritchard, Mike Quille, Neil Rafeek, Ruth Rickman-Williams, Jane Rosen, Jane Scott, Tom Sibley, Dr. Mike Squires, Carol Stavris, Dave Stavris Graham Stevenson, Keith Stoddart, Robert Streader, Ruth Styles, The Vale of Leven History Project, Mike Vine, Michael Walker, Lynne Walsh, Robert Wilkinson, Jim Whyte, Tanya Wills, Anita Wright, Nick Wright.

London Recruits

The West Country also has another strong connection to the struggle against Apartheid, through the story of the London Recruits, who smuggled “leaflet bombs” into South Africa, which harmlessly exploded in built-up cities to distribute propaganda giving hope to the locals that the African National Congress (ANC) were still active and influential, even with their leadership forced into exile.

Ron Press, one of the exiled South Africans, and lifetime member of Bristol Trades Union Council and secretary of the Bristol Anti-Apartheid Movement, designed, built and tested these devices in the West Country, even writing of an earlier test of rocket-propelled leaflet distribution, scattering papers over the Ashley Down Allotments.

Ken Keable, now Party District Secretary for South West of England & Cornwall, and Dr. Bevis Miller, at the University of Bristol and member of the Bristol, Bath & Gloucester Branch of the Party, were two of the “respectable” looking white youngsters living in London at the time who were sent to deploy the devices so as to avoid suspicion.

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