Labour Party

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Dora Russell
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...
politics Dora Russell
She prepared evidence with John Maynard Keynes , St John Hutchinson , and John St Loe Strachey (father of writer Amabel Williams-Ellis ). At issue, ostensibly, was the inclusion of diagrams in the pamphlet. DR
politics Dora Russell
DR was involved with the Labour Party , the Independent Labour Party (ILP ), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School , where...
politics Maude Royden
MR spoke in support of the NUWSS 's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party at the Royal Albert Hall.
“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell.
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politics Maude Royden
Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party ; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party 's recent concern for it caused the society to change...
Occupation J. K. Rowling
Before the turn of the century she gave up teaching to become a full-time writer. She also became a patron of and ambassador for several charities: the National Council for One-Parent Families (now known as...
politics J. K. Rowling
She is not slow to take a public political stance. To her 11 million followers on Twitter , she tweeted before the 2016 referendum on Britain's  leaving or remaining within the European Union (Brexit) that...
politics Michèle Roberts
Not long afterwards, she and her friends in London were pursuing street politics to the left of the Labour Party , like mounting a carnival float at a CND festival to represent and caricature Real...
politics Ruth Rendell
During the 1980s RR was active in support both of the Labour Party and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Later she was involved with Emily's List (founded in February 1993 with the aim...
politics Amber Reeves
AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...
Textual Production Amber Reeves
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....
Literary responses Eleanor Rathbone
Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
Also in December 1929, ER introduced an amendment to a Labour motion favouring native paramountcy
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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in colonial territories. Rathbone added the last word to the motion that Native self-government should be fostered; and franchise...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake
politics Eleanor Rathbone
ER was even-handed in her actions. During the same year she outspokenly criticised Labour idol Aneurin Bevan for what she regarded as a childish display of machismo in irrelevant point-scoring against Churchill . She accused...

Timeline

Late July 1931: In Britain the confusingly-named May committee...

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Late July 1931

In Britain the confusingly-named May committee responded to escalation both in the international financial crisis and mass unemployment at home, by advising draconian cuts in government expenditure.

26 August 1931: The Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald...

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26 August 1931

The Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald organized a National Coalition government; many members of his party felt this to be a betrayal.

27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...

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27 October 1931

In the general election, the National Coalition Government won a landslide victory (a majority of nearly five hundred seats over the combined opposition) but became much more Conservative in tone than it had been. Most...

30 July 1932: The Independent Labour Party, increasingly...

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30 July 1932

The Independent Labour Party , increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party 's movement towards the centre, took a decision to disaffiliate from its own larger and more successful offspring.

March 1935: The League of Nations Union organised a ballot...

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March 1935

The League of Nations Union organised a ballot in Britain (sometimes misleadingly called the Peace Ballot) on the question of intervention by other nations when one nation attacked another.

1 October 1935: At the Labour Party's annual conference Ernest...

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1 October 1935

At the Labour Party 's annual conference Ernest Bevin made a dramatic attack on the pacifist views of the leader, George Lansbury , who thereupon resigned.

14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...

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14 November 1935

A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.

12 September 1936: Charlotte Haldane edited the first issue...

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12 September 1936

Charlotte Haldane edited the first issue of Woman Today for the Women's Committee for Peace and Democracy .

12 April 1938: Physician Edith Summerskill was elected to...

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12 April 1938

Physician Edith Summerskill was elected to Parliament as an MP for the Labour Party .

10 May 1940: Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain...

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10 May 1940

Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister, heading a Coalition government which was designed to submerge party differences in the joint effort to defeat Hitler.

After 26 July 1945: In the new Labour government, Dr Edith Summerskill...

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After 26 July 1945

In the new Labour government, Dr Edith Summerskill was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food. In that position she ensured the compulsory pasteurisation of milk.

July 1945: Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour...

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July 1945

Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour member of the British Parliament , where she served for thirty-four years.

26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...

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26 July 1945

The postwar general election put the Labour Party in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison , Ernest Bevin , Hugh Dalton , and Sir...

April 1946 : A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee's...

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April 1946

A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee 's Labour government visited Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to investigate the feasibility of a large-scale scheme for cultivating groundnuts (peanuts).
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head.

June 1947: The Labour Party declared its government...

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June 1947

The Labour Party declared its government would not be introducing equal pay legislation.

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