Robert Barltrop

Robert Barltrop (born 1922) is an English socialist activist, essayist, and biographer.

Barltrop grew up in the East End of London, descended from a long line of blacksmiths, although his father was a horse fodder dealer; he educated at the Sir George Monoux Grammar School in Walthamstow. During World War II, he served with the Royal Air Force.

He was for many years a member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. He has had various careers and has been a professional boxer, a labourer, a strip cartoonist, a schoolteacher and a sign-painter. Barltrop has also published widely and his books include: "The Monument: Story of the Socialist Party of Great Britain" (1975), "Jack London: The Man, the Writer, the Rebel" (1977), "Muvver Tongue" with Jim Wolveridge (1980), "A Funny Age (Growing up in North East London between the Wars)" (1985) and "Yes Mush: A Cockney Dictionary: The Cockney Language and Its World" (2004).

References

* [http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/frames/browse2?inst_id=103&coll_id=7625&expand= Collection Description of the Robert Barltrop archive] , held at the Bishopsgate Institute, London.