id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-952 Harold Heslop - Wikipedia .html text/html 2003 238 72 Harold Heslop (1 October 1898 – 10 November 1983) was an English author, left-wing political activist, and coalminer, from near Bishop Auckland, County Durham. Also in 1930, he was invited to attend the Second Plenum of the International Bureau of Revolutionary Literature in the Soviet Union.[6] Subsequently, four of his novels were published in the Soviet Union, including Red Earth (1931), a utopian novel about a successful revolution in Britain which was never published in the UK.[7] He also worked in London for the Soviet trading mission and later Intourist.[1] In 1934, his novel Goaf was released in English. Harold Heslops's first novel published in England, The Gate of a Strange Field is about the General Strike of 1926, which he had witnessed in London.[9] The novel took its title from a phrase in H. H. Gustav Klaus, "Harold Heslop: miner novelist", The Literature of Labour: Two Hundred Years of Working-Class Writing". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-952.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-952.txt