Labour Party

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)

AC 's politics were those of the left, following the Labour convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and went on several of its Easter marches to...

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

The story is set in a town called Aire, which has been variously identified as Leeds and Sheffield. It depicts the socialist movement at a moment of transition: the rich industrialist Marsdens, the old-money...

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.

CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

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...

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.

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...