![]() ![]() ![]() He was a founder-member of the Committee of 100, an anti-war group founded by Bertrand Russell in 1960, and was later involved in the Institute for Workers' Control. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1935 as a Labour Party candidate, and was for a time secretary to the Labour MP George Strauss. ![]() Morris was a socialist and anti-war campaigner. His last book was Londinium: London in the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1982. He also instigated the publication of a new edition of the Domesday Book, and edited the Arthurian Period Sources series. ![]() Martindale, of The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, a biographical dictionary of the years 284-641, the first volume of which was published in 1971. In 1952 Morris founded the historical journal Past & Present, which he edited until 1960, and remained chairman of the editorial board until 1972. He worked in India in 19 as a lecturer for the Indian University Grants Commission, before returning to UCL to become Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, a post he held until his death. In 1948 he was appointed Lecturer in Ancient History at University College, London. After the war he held a Leon Fellowship at the University of London and a Junior Fellowship at the Warburg Institute. Morris read modern history at Jesus College, Oxford from 1932 to 1935, and served in the Army during the Second World War. ![]()
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