Sam Apter obituary

My friend Sam Apter, who has died aged 98, spent a lifetime campaigning and learning. Self-taught, he took a first degree in his 70s after retiring from his work as a clothing manufacturer. At the time of his death he was working on a doctoral thesis – as one of the London School of Economics’s oldest PhD students.

He was also a canvasser for the Labour party and was active in supporting, mobilising and organising people in the community of Highbury Quadrant, north London, where he had lived since the mid-1950s.