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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. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, which is now the aid organisation Plan International.
Today, we are a global organisation that is active in over 80 countries to advance children’s rights and equality for girls. Over the 5 years from 2017-2022 our ambition is to transform the lives of 100 million girls. British author and journalist John Langdon-Davies.
John Langdon-Davies has 97 books on Goodreads with 601 ratings. John Langdon-Davies’s most popular book is Carlos the Bewitched: The Last Spanish Hapsbur...
Aug 11, 2023 · After the War Langdon-Davies embraced leftish politics, promoting the cause of women with his book A Short History of Women and embracing the anarchist cause in the Spanish Civil War with Behind the Spanish Barricades. His opposition to Nazism, fascism and ‘scientific racism’ can be gleaned from the opening paragraph of ‘The Story of the ...
Jan 8, 2024 · John Eric Langdon-Davies (18 March 1897 – 5 December 1971) was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish war.
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(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 essentiall...
Home / Our history. Originally named Foster Parents Scheme for Children in Spain, Plan International was founded in 1937 by British journalist and broadcaster John Langdon-Davies. He was later joined by Eric Muggeridge, Esme Odgers, and Nick (Barton) Carter.
