Memory is important and this website offers a fitting tribute – Colin Carritt, Oxford IBMC
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Rodney Bickerstaffe – a celebration
A celebration and archive of information
Just came across your new website and wanted to write to say how pleased I am to have found it. Well done, and many thanks. ...
Rodney was a great man in the Union and in the Labour Movement. Tam had a huge regard and respect for him, as well as...
When I was a NUPE Assistant Divisional Officer in Oxford, Bick came down to a staff meeting and stayed overnight with me. Alf Collier’s wife,...
I was a neighbour of Rodney’s in Hither Green for a few years. We attended Sunday morning mass together at St Swithun’s Church. I preferred...
I was nearly run over when a car full of trade union delegates backed out of the car park of a hotel that was nearly...
On the 8th May 2003 I chaired an afternoon question session of the Suffolk Pensioners’ Association held at The Sports Centre, Lowestoft, Suffolk, which included...
In the 1980s I was responsible for NUPE membership in MK. The branch secretary and I spoke regularly on the phone in the evenings. Our...
Message from Nelson Mandela to Rodney Bickerstaffe on his retirement in 2000. Courtesy of Warwick University Modern Records Centre @MRCWarwick https://twitter.com/MRCWarwick/status/1250803896198606848
Rodney Bickerstaffe was a great champion of the International Brigades. The men and women who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain from 1936-39 were an...
(From Left Lives in Twentieth Century Ireland: Volume 2 published in Dublin in 2019 by Umiskin Press) courtesy of Dan O’Neill. Rodney Bickerstaff led the...