Labour Party

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...

KBG was delighted to see the Labour Party come to power in the general election of 26 July 1945. This first majority Labour government in history was to succeed in establishing the first welfare state...

Towards the end of her career, after 1913, KBG also produced articles for the The Labour Woman, as well as League Leaflet. She also wrote a regular column for the Manchester...

The novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds.

Her most controversial newspaper piece was a long article on women's suffrage for the Yorkshire Weekly Post, a reply to a piece by a male journalist. The two pounds she earned for this were...

MG 's earliest adult writing was bound up with her political activities. She began with editing a woman's page in Labour News, our local baby weekly put out by the LeedsLabour Church ...

The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...

Her family were highly educated, upper-class, Labour Party supporters: English, although her Anglo-Irish father sometimes liked to declare himself an Irishman. He was an earl's son, but the second...

In December 1978 AF voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and...

She used her position to advocate on behalf of women's suffrage, which she believed to be an integral part of socialism. She spoke to this effect on several occasions, including the annual conferences of the...

When she was invited to stand as a Labour Party candidate in the 1918 general election, however, she declined, primarily on grounds of her advancing age.

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...

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...

After returning to the executive committee of the NUWSS in 1912, IOF spoke in favour of a resolution which pledged the union to support Labour candidates in most constituencies, unless an old friend of the...

In cold weather leading up to the election of 6 December 1923, IOF campaigned on behalf of her old friend Philip Snowden , who was running as a candidate for the Labour Party . The...