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330: 60:, north London, to working-class parents Thomas James Nathaniel Gregg, a Post Office mail sorter, and Elizabeth Janette (née Kuttner), Gregg was attracted to socialism during her schooldays, joining the Labour 152:, herself an expert on 17th century English history and author of many books on the period, calling the former "the fullest and most carefully compiled that we are ever likely to have". 132:, an annexe of Balliol, housing fifty undergraduates; although finding housework dull, Gregg was "a dashing hostess". During this time, Gregg daily researched at the 406: 367: 396: 160:
Gregg and her husband, Russell Meiggs, had two daughters. She was survived by them, and by seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Contemporary Authors, 1st revised edition, Gale Research Company, 1969, p. 478
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Gregg's published works concentrated on the period of the
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of the 17th century and the history of social life in
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Index

Gregg, Pauline
British
historian
Palmers Green
League of Youth
Independent Labour Party
Speakers' Corner
Hyde Park
Longman
Middlesex County Council
London School of Economics
John Lilburne
Levellers
Hillcroft College
Surbiton
Second World War
Russell Meiggs
Balliol College, Oxford
Holywell Manor, Oxford
Bodleian Library
Charles I
Cromwell
C. V. Wedgwood
English Civil Wars
Britain
Charles I
John Lilburne
Welfare state
Oliver Cromwell
Stone Age

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