"""Manifesto"" and its authors experienced a revival in fortunes. Hobsbawm identifies three reasons for this. The first is the leadership role Marx played in the International Workingmen's Association (aka the First International). Secondly, Marx also came into much prominence among socialists—and equal notoriety among the authorities—for his support of the Paris Commune of 1871, elucidated in ""The Civil War in France"". Lastly, and perhaps most significantly in the popularisation of the ""Manifesto"", was the treason trial of German Social Democratic Party (SPD) leaders. During the trial prosecutors read the ""Manifesto"" out loud as evidence; this meant that the pamphlet could"
"Tomb of Karl Marx The Tomb of Karl Marx stands in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, north London, England. It commemorates the burial sites of Marx, of his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of his family. Originally buried in a different part of the Eastern cemetery, the bodies were disinterred and reburied at their present location in 1954. The tomb was designed by Laurence Bradshaw and was unveiled in 1956, in a ceremony led by Harry Pollitt, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, which funded the memorial. The tomb consists of a large"
"The tomb was listed in 1974, and its designation raised to the highest grade, Grade I, in 1999. Tomb of Karl Marx The Tomb of Karl Marx stands in the Eastern cemetery of Highgate Cemetery, north London, England. It commemorates the burial sites of Marx, of his wife, Jenny von Westphalen, and other members of his family. Originally buried in a different part of the Eastern cemetery, the bodies were disinterred and reburied at their present location in 1954. The tomb was designed by Laurence Bradshaw and was unveiled in 1956, in a ceremony led by Harry Pollitt, the General"
"""A great leap in the dark,"" uttered in his final conscious moments. His body was interred in St John the Baptist's Church, Ault Hucknall, in Derbyshire. Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes (; 5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ""Leviathan"", which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics"
"London on 14 March 1883 (age 64), dying a stateless person. Family and friends in London buried his body in Highgate Cemetery (East), London, on 17 March 1883 in an area reserved for agnostics and atheists (George Eliot's grave is nearby). There were between nine and eleven mourners at his funeral. Several of his closest friends spoke at his funeral, including Wilhelm Liebknecht and Friedrich Engels. Engels' speech included the passage: Marx's surviving daughters Eleanor and Laura, as well as Charles Longuet and Paul Lafargue, Marx's two French socialist sons-in-law, were also in attendance. He had been predeceased by his"
"Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels (; ; sometimes anglicised Frederick Engels; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, communist, social scientist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of a large textile factory in Salford, England. Engels founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 published ""The Condition of the Working Class in England"", based on personal observations and research in Manchester. In 1848, Engels co-authored ""The Communist Manifesto"" with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially to do research and write ""Das Kapital""."
"the Christian faith and her adulterous affair with Lewes. She was buried in Highgate Cemetery (East), Highgate, London, in the area reserved for societal outcasts, religious dissenters and agnostics, beside the love of her life, George Henry Lewes. The graves of Karl Marx and her friend Herbert Spencer are nearby. In 1980, on the centenary of her death, a memorial stone was established for her in the Poets' Corner. Several landmarks in her birthplace of Nuneaton are named in her honour. These include The George Eliot School, Middlemarch Junior School, George Eliot Hospital, (formerly Nuneaton Emergency Hospital), and George Eliot"
"Ed Miliband called him ""an extraordinary historian, a man passionate about his politics ... He brought history out of the ivory tower and into people's lives"". He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and his ashes were interred in Highgate Cemetery. A memorial service for Hobsbawm was held at the New School in October 2013. Eric Hobsbawm Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (; 9 June 1917 – 1 October 2012) was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. Ideologically a Marxist, his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. His best-known works include his trilogy"
"bust of Marx in bronze set on a marble pedestal. The pedestal is inscribed with quotes from Marx's works including, on the front, the final words of ""The Communist Manifesto"", """"Workers of all lands unite"""". Since its construction, the tomb has become a place of pilgrimage for followers of Marxist theory. It has also been a target for Marx's opponents, suffering vandalism, and two bomb attacks in the 1970s. It is a Grade I listed structure, the highest listing reserved for buildings and structures of ""exceptional interest"". Marx moved to London as a political exile in June 1849. Living originally"
"Chambers was closely involved with Combe's associates William A.F. Browne and Hewett Cottrell Watson who did much to spell out the materialist theory of the mind. Chambers died in 1871 and is buried in the grounds of St Andrews Cathedral, within the ancient chapel of St Regulus. The book was published by John Spriggs Morss Churchill in London. Great pains were undertaken to secure the secret of the authorship from Churchill, and the public. After Chambers completed each section, his wife copied the manuscript, because Chambers was well known in the trade. Alexander Ireland of Manchester delivered the manuscript to"
"Helen Macfarlane Helen Macfarlane, born Barrhead, 25 September 1818 (registered in the Abbey [i.e. landward] Parish of Paisley), Renfrewshire, Scotland, died Nantwich, Cheshire, England 29 March 1860, was a Scottish Chartist feminist journalist and philosopher, known for her 1850 translation into English of the ""Communist Manifesto"" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels which was published in German in 1848. Between April 1850 and December 1850, Macfarlane wrote three essays for George Julian Harney's monthly, the ""Democratic Review"" and ten articles for his weekly paper, the ""Red Republican"" (which changed its name to the ""Friend of the People"" in December 1850)."
"by the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, a charity which acquired ownership of the cemetery in 1975. The trust's policy of charging an entrance fee to the cemetery, to cover the costs of upkeep and maintenance, has generated some controversy. Marx's grave is among the most visited sites at Highgate and has been described as ""one of the most recognisable graves in the world"". The tomb was designed by Laurence Bradshaw, an artist, sculptor and a member of the Communist Party since the 1930s. On obtaining the commission, Bradshaw wrote that the challenge was to create, ""not a monument to"
"writing as critical conversation, it allows writer and critic to speak with each other in the creation of the critical voice. Trinidad-born intellectual-activist Claudia Jones (1915-1964) had long remained outside of academic consideration before Boyce Davies restored her to global, intellectual prominence. In her prize-winning book ""Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones"" (Duke University Press, 2008), Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones, a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds"
"descriptions of its uses. In 1902, shortly before his death, Spencer was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature. He continued writing all his life, in later years often by dictation, until he succumbed to poor health at the age of 83. His ashes are interred in the eastern side of London's Highgate Cemetery facing Karl Marx's grave. At Spencer's funeral the Indian nationalist leader Shyamji Krishnavarma announced a donation of £1,000 to establish a lectureship at Oxford University in tribute to Spencer and his work. The basis for Spencer's appeal to many of his generation was that he appeared"
"the Communist ""party line"", though, and the Russians did not succeed in making him endorse it. His politics had in fact moved far towards the right, but he had felt shut out by the British establishment after his T. E. Lawrence book. He lived in Provence, Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence and Sury-en-Vaux. He is buried in the local cemetery in Sury. On 11 November 1985, Aldington was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen."
"Trust was set up in 1975 and acquired the freehold of both East and West Cemeteries by 1981, since when they have had responsibility for the maintenance of the location. In 1984 they published ""Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla"" by John Gay. Many famous or prominent people are buried in Highgate cemetery, the most famous burial is arguably that of Karl Marx, whose tomb was the site of attempted bombings on 2 September 1965 and in 1970. The tomb of Karl Marx is Grade I listed buildings for reasons of historical importance. A monument erected in the East Cemetery by widows"
"Charles Laughton. Edith Lanchester died in April 1966 at Brighton. Edith Lanchester Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – April 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She garnered notoriety in 1895 when her family had her incarcerated in a lunatic asylum for planning to marry an Irish, working-class labourer. She later became secretary to Eleanor Marx. Lanchester was born in Hove, Sussex on 28 July 1871, the fifth child of a family of eight. Her parents were Henry Jones Lanchester, an established architect, (1834–1914) and Octavia Ward (1834–1916). Following in their father's footsteps of bourgeois success, three of"
"New Southgate Cemetery New Southgate Cemetery is a 22-hectare cemetery in New Southgate in the London Borough of Barnet. It was established by the Colney Hatch Company in the 1850s and became the Great Northern London Cemetery, with a railway service running from near Kings Cross station to a dedicated station at the cemetery, similar to the service of the London Necropolis Company to Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. The railway service to Great Northern London Cemetery soon closed, but the cemetery has remained open. Perhaps the most famous person buried at the cemetery is Shoghi Effendi (1897-1957), a leader of"
"Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet, ""The Communist"
"the French Revolution of 1848. An untaxed and absolutely free press became his main object in later years. He died at Burns College, Hamilton Road, Lower Norwood, on 29 November 1874, and was buried in Norwood cemetery. A grey granite obelisk erected by friends commemorated his ""brave efforts to secure the rights of free speech"". A photographic portrait was in the ""Memoir"" by William James Linton. James Watson (radical) James Watson (21 September 1799 – 29 November 1874) was an English radical publisher, activist and Chartist. His colleagues in political activity included Henry Hetherington, William Lovett, Thomas Wakley, Thomas Slingsby"
"each other's houses at which Shakespeare readings were given by members of their families. These meetings became formalised as the Dogberry Club. Marx's daughter Eleanor and Collet's daughter Clara, amongst others, became heavily involved in the readings. His five children included the colonial administrator Wilfred Collet (1856–1929) and the educationalist Clara Collet (1860–1948). He died 1898 in Finsbury, and is buried in Highgate West Cemetery. His wife Jane (1820–1908) died 10 years after him. Collet Dobson Collet Collet Dobson Collet (31 December 1812 – 28 December 1898) was an English radical freethinker, Chartist and campaigner against newspaper taxation. Collet was"
"""This is a book of vast research, and the variety of subjects embraced in it may be estimated by the fact that on the French translation it was thought advisable to employ nineteen collaborators, all regarded as experts in their special subjects."" Historical accounts of the advancement of geology regularly make mention of Andrew Ure. Ure died in 1857 in London. Throughout his life he had a wide circle of friends and he communicated regularly with many principal scientists around the world. These all lamented his death. Michael Faraday's posthumous description of him was: He is buried in Highgate Cemetery."
"Emerson. He died there on 25 July 1834 and is buried in the crypt of St Michael's Church. The writer J. B. Priestley subsequently lived in the same house. Highgate Highgate () is a suburban area of north London at the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath, north north-west of Charing Cross. Highgate is one of the most expensive London suburbs in which to live. It has an active conservation body, the Highgate Society, to protect its character. Until late Victorian times it was a distinct village outside London, sitting astride the main road to the north. The area retains many"
"remains were sent back to the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris. Her ashes rest in urn number 9016. According to an account of drafts of the poem ""Nancy Cunard"" by Mina Loy held in the Yale University Library, Nancy Cunard Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class, and devoted much of her life to fighting racism and fascism. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound"
"as ""an old member of the Communist League""; and Carl Schorlemmer, a professor of chemistry in Manchester, a member of the Royal Society and a communist activist involved in the 1848 Baden revolution. Another attendee of the funeral was Ray Lankester, a British zoologist who would later become a prominent academic. Upon his own death in 1895, Engels left Marx's two surviving daughters a ""significant portion"" of his considerable estate (valued in 2011 at US$4.8m). Marx and his family were reburied on a new site nearby in November 1954. The tomb at the new site, unveiled on 14 March 1956,"
"Laurence Bradshaw Laurence Bradshaw (1899–1978) was an English sculptor, printmaker, and artist. Bradshaw had been a socialist since his youth and had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early 1930s. Bradshaw joined the artist Frank Brangwyn as his assistant in the 1920s; Brangwyn himself had been an assistant to the socialist polymath William Morris. Bradshaw designed several posters for London Transport from 1935 to 1937. In 1955, Bradshaw won the commission to design the Tomb of Karl Marx at his burial place in Highgate Cemetery. Bradshaw designed the whole of Marx's monument including the plinth and the"
"continued working as a journalist for the rest of his life. Hodgskin was a pioneer of anti-capitalist individualist anarchism. Thomas Hodgskin Thomas Hodgskin (born 12 December 1787, Chatham, Kent; d. 21 August 1869, Feltham, Middlesex) was an English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions. (In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term ""socialist"" included any opponent of capitalism, which was construed as a political system built on privileges for the owners of capital.) Born of a father who worked in the Chatham Naval Dockyard, Hodgskin joined the"
"Thomas Hodgskin Thomas Hodgskin (born 12 December 1787, Chatham, Kent; d. 21 August 1869, Feltham, Middlesex) was an English socialist writer on political economy, critic of capitalism and defender of free trade and early trade unions. (In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the term ""socialist"" included any opponent of capitalism, which was construed as a political system built on privileges for the owners of capital.) Born of a father who worked in the Chatham Naval Dockyard, Hodgskin joined the navy at the age of 12. He rose rapidly in the years of naval struggle with the French to"
"group of Maoist roots, Komalah - together, they formed the Communist Party of Iran (CPI). Hekmat and a group of other CPI members left the party and, in 1991, founded the WPI. He also helped establish the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq. He died of cancer in his London home and was buried in Highgate Cemetery, a few meters away from Karl Marx's grave. Hekmat supported the """"return to Marx"""", and theorized that the working class is to rely only on itself - arguing that it had been the only class to impose beneficial changes in the 20th century. He opposed"
"a hazard to health and an undignified way to treat the dead. The initial design was by architect and entrepreneur Stephen Geary. On Monday 20 May 1839, Highgate (West) Cemetery was dedicated to St. James by the Right Reverend Charles James Blomfield, Lord Bishop of London. Fifteen acres were consecrated for the use of the Church of England, and two acres set aside for Dissenters. Rights of burial were sold for either limited period or in perpetuity. The first burial was Elizabeth Jackson of Little Windmill Street, Soho, on 26 May. Highgate, like the others of the Magnificent Seven, soon"
"a cardiac arrest while lecturing at the Socialist Days conference of the Center for Socialist Studies (CSS) in Cairo, Egypt. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London, a few yards from Karl Marx's tomb and adjacent to his comrade Paul Foot. Chris Harman Chris Harman (8 November 1942 – 7 November 2009) was a British journalist and political activist, and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He was an editor of ""International Socialism"" and ""Socialist Worker"". Born Christopher John Harman into a working-class family, he attended Leeds University (where he joined the Socialist Review Group"
"toward one another. Henry Sidgwick, the philosopher, wrote of the Apostles in his memoirs that ""the tie of attachment to this society is much the strongest corporate bond which I have known in my life."" Eleven former members of the Apostles are buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge : Henry Jackson, classicist (1863); Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, classicist (1859); Desmond MacCarthy, newspaper critic (1896); Sir Donald MacAlister, physician (1876); Norman McLean, orientalist (1888), G. E. Moore, philosopher (1894); Frank P. Ramsey, economist and philosopher (1921); Gerald Shove, economist (1909); Vincent Henry Stanton, Professor of Divinity"
"was interred, in the same grave as Merrill, at the Mount Cemetery at Guildford in Surrey. Ansel Adams was an admirer of Carpenter's writings, especially ""Towards Democracy"". Leslie Paul was influenced by Carpenter's ideas; in turn he passed on Carpenter's ideas to the scouting group he founded, The Woodcraft Folk. Carpenter has also been known as the ""Saint in Sandals"", the ""Noble Savage"" and, more recently, the ""gay godfather of the British left"". Edward Carpenter Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals. A poet"