Paterson, Elizabeth. “A voice against the tides of fashion: Kathleen Nott”. The Guardian.
Labour Party
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | KN
's mother, Ellen Nott
, was a formidable matriarch who managed a boarding house in Brixton, South London. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | KN
's father, Philip Nott
, was a lithographic printer. He was something he called a liberal, which meant he probably voted Liberal
and disapproved of war, capitalism, the Labour Party
, and God. He... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Oakley | AO
was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss
, who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of... |
| Textual Production | Ann Oakley | It originated from seminars given at the Institute of Education
in spring 1993. Oakley, Ann, and A. Susan Williams, editors. The Politics of the Welfare State. UCL Press. 1 Lowe, Rodney. “Lessons from the Past: the rise and fall of the classic welfare state in Britain, 1945-76”. The Politics of the Welfare State, edited by Ann Oakley and A. Susan Williams, Institute of Education. 37 |
| politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
turned down an opportunity to stand as Labour
candidate for Sheffield because her views now called for a total revolution of democratic procedures, including Parliament. Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan. 81 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press. 125 |
| Other Life Event | Sylvia Pankhurst | The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee
, supported by Labour Party
politicians Tony Benn
, Margaret Beckett
, and Gordon Brown
, lobbied for a statue of SP
to be chosen to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square. “Pass Notes”. The Guardian, p. 3. 3 |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
stood as Labour
candidate for Manchester's Rusholme division in Britain's general election; she was one of sixteen women defeated in this election (the first in which they were eligible to run). Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 322-3 “Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Frederick Pethick-Lawrence |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
| Textual Production | Amber Reeves | |
| 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 | 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... |
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