My grandmother, Margaret Morris, who has died aged 93, was a historian, university lecturer, letter-writer to the Guardian and a socialist campaigner.
For 47 years, Margaret was married to the educationist Max Morris, a former Communist party executive member and president of the NUT (1973-74). Max and Margaret met in Hampstead, north London, through a shared interest in leftwing causes, and they became close friends when Margaret stood as the Labour candidate for Hornsey council in 1959; they married in 1961. They were well known in political circles and their parties were widely celebrated.
