Local historian Bill Moore died peacefully at Gateford Hill Care Home, Worksop, which was his home for the last four months of his life.

Tributes were led by his daughter, Elizabeth Mackey, with whom he had lived for the previous two years.

She said: "He was a man of wisdom and intellect, of integrity and compassion. He was a life-long campaigner for peace and a champion of the oppressed.

"He was honest and open in a world of intrigue and hidden agenda and never forgot that people are more important than politics.

"I'd also like to say that the care and attention he received at Gateford Hill were exemplary and the staff made his last days as happy as they could be. We cannot thank them enough.''

Bill, an Oxford graduate, grew up with his grandparents in Attercliffe after his mother died in childbirth and his father was killed in Ypres during the First World War.

He took a diploma in education at London University before joining the Communist Party in 1935.

His first piece of political writing was for an election pamphlet on behalf of the Labour candidate for the Sheffield Ecclesall ward in the election that year, before serving as secretary on the Sheffield Peace Committee for two years.

He married Frances Armstrong in 1937 and the couple had two sons, Bill and Alan, and Elizabeth. Bill, who lived in Millhouses and later in Totley, also leaves 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

During the war, he was called up to the Royal Armoured Corps before being accepted into the Royal Artillery. In 1944 he became an education officer teaching English in Nigeria.

In 1946 he was demobbed and returned to Sheffield. He completed two teaching posts in South Yorkshire before joining the Community Party Historian's Group and then standing in the Neepsend by-election in 1950.

In 1952 he left work to focus solely on the party, holding various posts in Yorkshire and standing as a candidate in elections. He retired in 1976 and focused on interests including wine tasting and gardening but rejoined the history group a year later.

Projects he was involved with included collating memories of the Sheffield Labour Group and founding the Holberry Society for the Study of Sheffield Labour History.

In later years, he visited grandchildren in Australia and attended conferences in countries including South Africa and Moscow.

He completed 10 publications on Sheffield social history.

Bill's funeral will take place next Thursday at Hutcliffe Wood Crematorium at 1pm.