Labour Party

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
VB and George Catlin , political scientist and Labour intellectual, were married in a fashionable white wedding at St James's, Spanish Place, London.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Gorham, Deborah. Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life. Blackwell.
190
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Judith Kazantzis
JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
VB gave birth in London to her daughter, Shirley Vivian Catlin , who as Shirley Williams later became a Labour politician and cabinet minister.
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
243, 581, 510
Family and Intimate relationships Angela Carter
Her mother, Olive (Farthing) Stalker , came from a coal-mining district in south Yorkshire. She won a scholarship to a grammar school (from which she emerged speaking more correct English than her own mother)
Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Family and Intimate relationships Marghanita Laski
The political theorist Harold Laski was ML 's uncle. Laski, a professor at the London School of Economics, was the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. His books on the Second World War, the...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
In an atmosphere of social, political, and artistic upheaval, art and politics merged in the public mind, and Bloomsbury was perceived as politically and aesthetically revolutionary. Stansky quotes a critic writing in the Daily Herald...
Friends, Associates Muriel Box
After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour politicians Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee , through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were...
Friends, Associates Alison Uttley
AU 's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn , later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher ), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley . In London she became a...
Leisure and Society Beatrice Webb
BW formed the Half-Circle Club for wives of Labour MPs.
Caine, Barbara. Destined to Be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb. Clarendon.
182
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...
Literary responses Naomi Mitchison
Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...
Literary responses Victoria Cross
This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.
Mitchell, Charlotte. Victoria Cross, 1868-1952: A Bibliography. Victorian Fiction Research Unit, School of English, Media Studies and Art History, The University of Queensland.
1
Literary Setting Angela Thirkell
AT 's next novel, Peace Breaks Out, 1946, continues her investigation into the new Britain. The election which brought Labour to power (on 26 July 1945) is fought out in Barsetshire between the...
Literary Setting Stella Gibbons
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.
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
226-7

Timeline

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.

Summer 1919: John Maynard Keynes published The Economic...

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Summer 1919

John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace.

March 1922: The Labour Party Conference declared that...

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March 1922

The Labour Party Conference declared that women still in wartime jobs should be paid at trade union rates and that all trade unions should support this aim.

Later 1922: Thirty-one women candidates sought office...

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Later 1922

Thirty-one women candidates sought office during the general election campaign, but none were elected to parliament except the sitting members Lady Astor and Margaret Wintringham .

6 December 1923: A general election was held in Britain....

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6 December 1923

A general election was held in Britain.

1924: John Wheatley, Minister of Health, forbade...

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1924

John Wheatley , Minister of Health, forbade medical health officers to offer birth control advice.

22 January 1924: After the Labour Party's victory in the general...

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22 January 1924

After the Labour Party 's victory in the general election, party leader James Ramsay MacDonald formed a minority government and succeeded to Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister.

29 October 1924: Ellen Wilkinson was elected as the Labour...

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29 October 1924

Ellen Wilkinson was elected as the Labour Party 's first woman MP.

4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...

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4 November 1924

Stanley Baldwin (Conservative ) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald .

July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...

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July 1928

Jennie Lee , a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons as its youngest member in a by-election in February...

July 1928: Jennie Lee, a Scottish coalminer's daughter,...

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July 1928

Jennie Lee , a Scottish coalminer's daughter, was selected as Labour candidate for the constituency of Lanarkshire; she was elected to the House of Commons as its youngest member in a by-election in February...

30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...

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30 May 1929

Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....

5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...

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5 June 1929

James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.

5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...

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5 June 1929

James Ramsay MacDonald , Labour leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.

7 June 1929: Margaret Bondfield became the first female...

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7 June 1929

Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in Britain, serving as Minister of Labour in Ramsay MacDonald 's Labour government.

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