Labour Party

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).

ES joined the Labour Party shortly after women won the vote.

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...

She was a member of the International Labour Party (ILP), and also supported the Anarchist Legitimation League .

Also in December 1929, ER introduced an amendment to a Labour motion favouring native paramountcy in colonial territories. Rathbone added the last word to the motion that Native self-government should be fostered; and franchise...

GBS was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society , a champion of the Labour Party , and a vocal supporter...

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

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

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

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.

One result of the war was to reveal more clearly, to the Webbs as to others, just how unequal was British society. They became ready to advocate such equalizing measures as higher taxation for the...

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...

Meanwhile, KBG returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's...

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...

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...