High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Henry Wickham "Stickum" Steed (10 October 1871 - 13 January 1956) was a British journalist and historian. He was editor of The Times from 1919 until 1922. Born in Long Melford, England, Steed was educated at Sudbury Grammar School and the universities of Jena, Berlin and Paris. While in Europe he demonstrated an early interest in social democracy and met with a range of left-wing figures, including Friedrich Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht, August Bebel, and Alexandre Millerand. His encounters formed the basis of his first book, The Socialist and Labour Movement in England, Germany & France (1894).