My friend Trevor Burridge, who has died aged 91, taught British history at the Université de Montréal in Canada for many years, and wrote three books, What Happened in Education (1970), British Labour and Hitler’s War (1976) and Clement Attlee: A Political Biography (1986).
Born in Cardiff, Trevor was the eldest of the five children of Margaret (nee James), a housewife, and David, an aeronautical engineer. Educated at Canton school in the city, he did national service with the RAF in Iraq, followed by teacher training in London.
