Labour Party

Sufficiently in sympathy with revolution to belong to the 1917 Club , RM was a pacifist between the wars, though she belonged to no particular group. In 1935 she voted for a (female) Labour Party

The political theorist Harold Laski was ML 's uncle. Laski, a professor at the London School of Economics, was the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. His books on the Second World War, the...

He is often remembered as a racist, on account of disgracefully vituperative letters and private light verse written during his late, right-wing period, when niggers were hate-figures to him along with Commies and the Labour Party

Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the...

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

Nevertheless she was constantly painting, pursuing her ambition to be an artist. She also worked for the Labour Party . During the 1970s she worked as a home tutor for the Inner London Education Authority

JK joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop , the Labour Party , and...

During the 1930s PHJ was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, by a Time magazine photograph of a girl in a concentration camp. She...

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...

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

NJ issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham , a fellow Labour Party member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician.

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...

NJ , formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears.

She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking...

MAH 's allegiance to the mainstream Labour Party , begun during these years, was maintained throughout her life, although she was one of its outspoken internal critics, for instance on issues of unemployment. A reviewer...