![]() ![]() After his father became unemployed, the family moved to Bradford, Yorkshire, then to Halifax, West Yorkshire. His eldest sister Marion died of tuberculosis in 1926, aged ten years as there was no cure for the disease at the time, nor did the family have enough money to see a doctor. Smith was born on 25 February 1923, in Barnsley, Yorkshire, the son of Albert Smith (1867–1943), an unemployed coal miner, and Lillian Dean (1894–1978). In Canada he made a 2015 "Stand Up for Progress" national tour. He appeared in public at the 2014 Labour Party conference in Manchester, and during the 2015 general election and the 2016 EU membership referendum. Smith wrote five books, about life in the Great Depression, the Second World War, and post-war austerity, and columns for The Guardian, New Statesman, The Daily Mirror, International Business Times, and the Morning Star. After retiring, Smith wrote his memoirs and about the social history of 20th-century Britain. He grew up in poverty in Yorkshire, served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, and emigrated to Canada in 1953. Harry Leslie Smith (25 February 1923 – 28 November 2018) was an English writer and political commentator. ![]()
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