“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Labour Party
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Naomi Jacob | 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Her politics remained steadily Labour
. She took a public stand against the military coup in Greece in 1967 and boycotted South African produce in protest against apartheid. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 108, 113 |
| 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, 1987. 113 |
| 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 | Isabella Ormston Ford | The establishment of the League, which was the first attempt to form a separate organization for women within the Labour Party
, was met with mixed feelings by IOF
, who always believed that men's... |
| 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 | Naomi Jacob | 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. Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin), 2001. 175 |
| 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 |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
was most at home in the NUWSS because of her deep-rooted beliefs in constitutionalism and non-violence. Although she could not bring herself to adopt militant methods, as an executive committee member she worked to... |
| politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, 1995, pp. 1-24. 5 |
| politics | Iris Murdoch | IM
once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking... |
| 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... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | |
| 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, 1953. 35, 38 |
| politics | Storm Jameson | 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... |
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.
Brown, Jenny. “Keep the Anarchy”. The Author, Vol.
cx
, No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1999, pp. 168-9. 168
“British Politics”. History Learning Site.
Devolution and Scotland
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.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
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
.
White, Michael. “It’s time for Tony Blair to go”. Guardian Weekly, 15–21 May 2003, p. 1.
1
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.
“Blair secures historic third term”. BBC News, 6 May 2005.
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
.
Carrell, Severin, and Michael White. “SNP claim victory, though power may yet elude them”. Guardian Unlimited, 5 May 2007.
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.
Cochrane, Kira. “Election results for women to celebrate and worry about”. The Guardian, 8 May 2010, p. 19.
19
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
.
“EU referendum: full results and analysis”. theguardian.com, 24 June 2016.
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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