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- He created the Jackdaw series of histories for children and wrote on Spain, science and history. A conscientious objector and peace campaigner during the First World War, he spent much time in Spain in the 1920s, forming a bond with Catalan left-wing intellectuals.
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John Langdon-Davies in 1940. John Eric Langdon-Davies MBE (18 March 1897 – 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Soviet-Finnish War.
Aug 8, 2022 · In January 1940, the British writer John Langdon-Davies travelled to Finland to report on the Winter War with the Soviet Union (November 1939–March 1940).
(1897-1971) South African-born poet and author, mostly in the UK from the age of six, a pacifist in World War One, and much involved in Spain and its conflicts during the interWar years; he is of some sf interest for A Short History of the Future (1936), which – like J D Bernal's The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1929 chap) – is ...
John Langdon-Davies, who lived at the Sundial in South Holmwood just outside Dorking, was a prolific political writer. He created the Jackdaw series of histories for children and wrote on Spain, science and history. A conscientious objector and peace campaigner during the First World War, he spent much time in Spain in the 1920s, forming a bond ...
The organisation was set up by British journalist John Langdon-Davies and refugee worker Eric Muggeridge in 1937, with the original aim to provide food, accommodation and education to children whose lives had been disrupted by the Spanish Civil War.
Apr 1, 2008 · As the authorities struggled with the humanitarian role they had unwittingly found themselves in, individuals took it upon themselves to help. At their forefront was British journalist John Langdon-Davies, who co-founded Foster Parents’ Plan with aid worker Eric Muggeridge.
DOI: 10.2307/3025721. Corpus ID: 68825859. Finland : the first total war. J. Langdon-Davies. Published 1940. History, Political Science. View via Publisher. Save to Library. Create Alert. Cite. 4 Citations. Citation Type. More Filters. Chapter VIII: Mental Health of Children and Families in Wartime. A. Jersild. Psychology, History. 1943.
