![]() Priestley declined awards of a life peerage and Companion of Honour, but he accepted an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Bradford in 1970 and the Freedom of the City of Bradford in 1973. He was a founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958. The following year he co-founded the Socialist Common Wealth Party and stood unsuccessfully as an Independent in the 1945 general election. After the war he wrote the libretto to The Olympians, an opera by Arthur Bliss. In 1941 Priestly played an important role organizing and supporting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. During World War II he achieved national fame broadcasting patriotic sentiments on a regular BBC Sunday evening broadcast. He subsequently became established as an essayist, critic and novelist. ![]() After the war he attended Trinity College, Cambridge. He was badly wounded fighting in France in 1916 and spent many months in hospital. In his spare time he published articles in local and London newspapers. He attended Belle Vue Grammar School, leaving at sixteen to work as a junior clerk at a local wool firm. John Boynton Priestley was born on 13 September 1894 in Manningham, near Bradford in Yorkshire. ![]() ![]() Selected books and articles about J.B. ![]()
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