Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian.
Labour Party
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, |
Occupation | Nina Bawden | The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB
wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party
, asked to put... |
Textual Features | Nina Bawden | NB
calls her central character, Elizabeth Jourdelay, submerged but battling. Elizabeth deceives her husband, not because she has a lover, but because she is attending a Labour Party
meeting. Bawden, Nina. In My Own Time: Almost An Autobiography. Virago. 173 |
Textual Features | Nina Bawden | This is in part a memoir about personal grief. She juxtaposes the material details of loss (the watch still going, the unnaturally tidy desk), with the intimacy of memory, the abandoned plans for the future... |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | 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... |
Textual Features | Eva Mary Bell | This time the male protagonist is Sir Anthony Nugent, Governor of the Punjab, and whereas Bell's first heroine came from a leisured life on family money, the new one has been playing a public... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Bellerby | Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband
gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group
(later known as Moral Rearmament
), became a... |
politics | Phyllis Bentley | PB
grew increasingly conservative, socially if not in party politics, as she grew older. She identified herself as a Liberal, and was uncomfortable about the Welfare State system launched while the Labour Party
held power... |
politics | Annie Besant | The London School Board implemented a fair wages clause for the award of contracts, as a result of pressure from Labour
members led by Annie Besant
. Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon. 113 |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Box | After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour
politicians Aneurin Bevan
and Jennie Lee
, through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were... |
politics | Muriel Box | During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB
became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Box | One of Gardiner's great-grandfathers was the Victorian author Dionysius Lardner
, who extramaritally fathered Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, better known as playwright Dion Boucicault
. His family had strong links with the theatre. Box, Muriel. Odd Woman Out. Leslie Frewin. 246ff Box, Muriel. Rebel Advocate. Victor Gollancz. 195, 201, 18ff |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
and George Catlin
, political scientist and Labour
intellectual, were married in a fashionable white wedding at St James's, Spanish Place, London. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 208 Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell. 190 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
gave birth in London to her daughter, Shirley Vivian Catlin
, who as Shirley Williams later became a Labour
politician and cabinet minister. Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus. 243, 581, 510 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Butts | MB
merges elements of fantasy with autobiography in order to analyse the impact of war on young people. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Timeline
May 1850: Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George...
Writing climate item
May 1850
Reynolds's Weekly News was launched by George Reynolds
as a radical Sunday paper of international news, designed to serve the cause of freedom and democracy.
1857: A proposal to move the National Gallery further...
Building item
1857
A proposal to move the National Gallery
further out, from its central-London site in Trafalgar Square to somewhere suburban, resulted in a poll of Westminster employers as to the relation of their workforce to...
September 1886: A famous meeting of the Fabian Society resolved...
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September 1886
A famous meeting of the Fabian Society
resolved that it was desirable for socialists to form a politial party; this was the first germ of the Labour Party
.
27-28 February 1900: The Trades Union Congress Conference met...
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27-28 February 1900
The Trades Union Congress Conference met at Memorial Hall, Faringdon, Berkshire, to decide on ways of improving labour representation in Parliament.
3 March 1900: The British Labour Party was launched as...
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3 March 1900
The British Labour Party
was launched as the Labour Representation Committee
, following a motion proposed the previous year by the rail union.
1906: The Labour Representation Committee changed...
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1906
The Labour Representation Committee
changed its name to the Labour Party
.
9 March 1906: The Women's Labour League was founded by...
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9 March 1906
The Women's Labour League
was founded by Mary Fenton MacPherson
and Margaret MacDonald
; the WLL provided campaign support for Labour candidates but was not offically connected to the Labour Party
until 1908.
1909: The Women's Labour League gained affiliation...
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1909
January 1910: A general election was fought in Britain...
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January 1910
A general election was fought in Britain on the issue of Lloyd George
's people's budget of the previous year: the combined Conservative
and [Ulster] Unionist Parties
came in only two votes behind the Liberals
1911: The Social Democratic Federation merged with...
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1911
The Social Democratic Federation
merged with other activist groups to form the British Socialist Party
(not to be confused with the Labour Party
, which had been in being for a decade).
15 April 1912: The Daily Herald, first newspaper of the...
Writing climate item
15 April 1912
The Daily Herald, first newspaper of the Labour Party
, was launched on capital of £200; it changed its title to the Herald and back again to the Daily Herald before expiring in 1964.
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
Building item
May 1912
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
voted to support Labour
candidates.
May 1912: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...
Building item
May 1912
The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
established the Election Fighting Fund to allow it to support Labour
candidates in constituencies where a Liberal
anti-suffragist was running.
Between 1914 and 1918: During the First World War, the Workers'...
National or international item
Between 1914 and 1918
During the First World War, the Workers' War Emergency Committee
was formed to address wartime labour issues.
Early 1918: The Women's Labour League merged with the...
National or international item
Early 1918
The Women's Labour League
merged with the Labour Party
to become the Women's Section: this happened when the Party's new constitution allowed women (and other people) to join as independent members.
Texts
Williams-Ellis, Amabel. Is Woman’s Place in the Home?. Labour Party, 1947.