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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Author summary | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional... |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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. |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Having earned her bread by work as assistant in a university history department, and as writer, translator, and journalist, MAH
entered politics. Journalism continued to provide her main source of income until 1929, and her... |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During 1929-31 she also served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service
. In 1931 she was elected to the parliamentary executive of the Labour Party
and often spoke for the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
| Publishing | Cicely Hamilton | This pamphlet was reprinted in 1982 in a limited edition of 700, from a copy rescued from a rubbish bin in the Labour Party
Library in the 1970s. One of the reprints was recently offered... |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | When a revised constitution allowed individuals to join the Labour Party
directly, instead of via one of its affiliated organisations, MAH
got to know and appreciate the Trade Union side of the party. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Up-Hill All the Way. Cape. 35, 38 |
| Employer | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
sat as Labour
Member of Parliament for Blackburn in Lancashire. She won her seat in the Flapper Election and lost it in the landslide victory of the National Coalition
government on 27 October 1931. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. 1966 Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 180 |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | The final meeting of the Socialist International
was held in Vienna; Mary Agnes Hamilton
attended as one of the Labour Party
delegation from Britain. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 245 |
| politics | Graham Greene | GG
joined the British Communist Party
on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since... |
| politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
| politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett |
Timeline
1 July 1999: The devolved Scottish parliament held its...
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1 July 1999
The devolved Scottish parliament held its opening ceremony. Devolution for Scotland (a transfer of some governmental powers from Westminster to Edinburgh) had been an election promise of the British Labour Party
in 1997.
4 May 2000: In the first election for the newly created...
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4 May 2000
In the first election for the newly created position of Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone
was elected (standing as an Independent after being de-selected by the Labour Party
).
7 June 2001: In the general election the Labour Party...
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7 June 2001
In the general election the Labour Party
under Tony Blair
lost only a tiny fraction of its huge majority.
May 2003: Valerie Amos became Britain's first black...
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May 2003
Valerie Amos
became Britain's first black woman Cabinet minister, following the resignation from Tony Blair
's Labour
Cabinet of Clare Short
.
5 May 2005: A British general election returned the Labour...
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5 May 2005
A British general election returned the Labour Party
under Tony Blair
to power with a majority reduced since 2001 but still substantial.
3 May 2007: In elections to the Scottish parliament,...
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3 May 2007
In elections to the Scottish parliament, a chaotic poll featuring large numbers of lost and disqualified votes revealed, several days later, that the Scottish Nationalist Party
held a one-seat lead over Labour
.
6-11 May 2010: A British general election returned inconclusive...
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6-11 May 2010
A British general election returned inconclusive results and led to days of negotiations among party leaders attempting to form a viable government.
23 June 2016: By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the...
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23 June 2016
By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the British electorate voted for Brexit: that is, to take Britain out of the European Union
.
8 June 2017: In a general election called by Britain's...
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8 June 2017
In a general election called by Britain's second-ever female Prime Minister, Theresa May
, her Conservative
government was returned with a significantly reduced majority, weakening instead of strengthening its hand for the imminent negotiations over...
14 June 2017: A fire started at a little after midnight...
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14 June 2017
A fire started at a little after midnight in the kitchen of a flat on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, a 23-storey building that was home to about 350...
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