Labour Party

Here she observed, together with her local contacts, the country's impoverished, violent, politically-uncertain climate. She deepened her friendship with Lilo Linke , a young woman she had first met at the Labour Party Conference held...

Dora was scheduled to visit Russia with Bertrand Russell . Just before their planned departure he was invited to join a Labour delegation, and Dora travelled mainly on her own. While in Moscow she made...

This novel is the love story of Jane Heriot, but also the story of the shaping of her mind. (In novels, observes Jane, most women have no minds to speak of.) Jane is working as...

Beginning as a Labour Government was formed (with Sidney Webb as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians.

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

AT turns her satire on topical issues (notably, again, the Labour government ) as well as on individuals. This is another novel which engages, tongue-in-cheek as usual, with issues of nationality, imbricated as...

MB merges elements of fantasy with autobiography in order to analyse the impact of war on young people. The setting of the story is complicated in that it strives to occupy a space of...

She introduces herself as a Socialist who has twice stood as a Labour candidate in parliamentary elections, and acknowledges a general debt to Freud as well as a particular debt to the work of Dr....

Private Enterprise was followed by Love Among the Ruins, 1948 (a title borrowed from Robert Browning ), The Old Bank House, 1949, and The Duke's Daughter, 1951. The draft of Love Among...

In Arthur Henderson : A Biography (on which she had been working since 1935) Mary Agnes Hamilton celebrated a Labour Party and disarmament leader, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mary Agnes Hamilton issued through the Labour Book Service an official booklet entitled The Labour Party To-Day: What it is and How it Works.

It originated from seminars given at the Institute of Education in spring 1993.AO herself contributed the introduction. Writing of the classic welfare state,Rodney Lowe dates its lifetime from 1945 to 1976...

MG 's earliest adult writing was bound up with her political activities. She began with editing a woman's page in Labour News, our local baby weekly put out by the LeedsLabour Church ...

Her most controversial newspaper piece was a long article on women's suffrage for the Yorkshire Weekly Post, a reply to a piece by a male journalist. The two pounds she earned for this were...

The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...