Editing Colin Ward (section)

==Life==

Ward was born in [[Wanstead]], [[Essex]], to Arnold and Ruby Ward ({{Nee|West}}). Arnold was a teacher and Ruby a clerical worker.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Scott-Brown |first=Sophie |url= |title=Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-367-56753-8 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003100409|s2cid=248956242 }}</ref>{{Rp|page=19}} His parents were active [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] supporters. Ward attended [[Ilford County High School]], leaving school aged 15. After leaving school he worked as an assistant to a builder, then for West Ham Council, before working as a [[Drafter|draughtsman]] at [[Sidney Caulfield|Sidney Caulfield's]] architectural practice.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=|pages=22-23}}

In 1942, aged 18, Ward was conscripted into the army as a [[sapper]], going on to work as a draughtsman in the [[Royal Engineers]].<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=30}} Based in Glasgow during the war, Ward began attending Glasgow Anarchist Group events. As a soldier he subscribed to the [[Antimilitarism|anti-militarist]] anarchist newspaper ''[[War Commentary]]'', and in 1945 Ward was called as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of the paper's editors, [[John Hewetson]], [[Vernon Richards]] and [[Philip Sansom]].<ref name="gdn obit" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Honeywell |first=Carissa |date=2015 |title=Anarchism and the British Warfare State: The Prosecution of the War Commentary Anarchists, 1945 |journal=[[International Review of Social History]] |volume=60 |issue=2 |pages=257–284 |doi=10.1017/S0020859015000188 |jstor=26394787 |s2cid=151669269 |issn=0020-8590|doi-access=free }}</ref> Shortly after the trial he was transferred to Orkney.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=40}}

After being demobbed in 1946 he returned to working for Sidney Caulfield and began contributing to [[Freedom Press]].<ref name="gdn obit" /><ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=72}} In 1947 he began editing the anarchist newspaper ''[[Freedom (British newspaper)|Freedom]] –'' successor to ''War Commentary''. He remained an editor of ''Freedom'' until 1960. He was the founder and editor of the monthly [[anarchist]] journal ''[[Anarchy Magazine|Anarchy]]'' from 1961 to 1970.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/honorary/ward.html|title=Anglia Ruskin University|website=anglia.ac.uk|access-date=13 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728055001/http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/honorary/ward.html|archive-date=28 July 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Until 1961, Ward worked as an architect's assistant. In 1964 undertook teacher training at [[Garnett College]] where he met his future wife, Harriet Unwin, and he subsequently began teaching at [[South Thames Colleges Group|Wandsworth Technical College]].<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=166}}

In 1971, he became the Education Officer for the [[Town and Country Planning Association]]. He published widely on education, architecture and town planning. His most influential book was ''The Child in the City'' (1978), about [[children's street culture]]. From 1995 to 1996, Ward was Centennial Professor of Housing and Social Policy at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|website=[[The Times]]}}</ref> In 2001, Ward was made an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at [[Anglia Ruskin University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/honorary/ward.html|title=Anglia Ruskin University, profile|website=anglia.ac.uk|access-date=13 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080728055001/http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/microsites/honorary/ward.html|archive-date=28 July 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>