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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Mary Agnes Hamilton
issued through the Labour Book Service
an official booklet entitled The Labour Party
To-Day: What it is and How it Works. |
Author summary | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Having earned her bread by work as assistant in a university history department, and as writer, translator, and journalist, MAH
entered politics. Journalism continued to provide her main source of income until 1929, and her... |
Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | During 1929-31 she also served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service
. In 1931 she was elected to the parliamentary executive of the Labour Party
and often spoke for the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | This novel is the love story of Jane Heriot, but also the story of the shaping of her mind. (In novels, observes Jane, most women have no minds to speak of.) Jane is working as... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad, Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 7 |
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). 175 |
Dedications | Naomi Jacob | NJ
issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham
, a fellow Labour Party
member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (13 March 1930): 211 Jacob, Naomi. Me: A Chronicle about Other People. Hutchinson. 205 |
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... |
Travel | Storm Jameson | Here she observed, together with her local contacts, the country's impoverished, violent, politically-uncertain climate. She deepened her friendship with Lilo Linke
, a young woman she had first met at the Labour Party
Conference held... |
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... |
politics | Pamela Hansford Johnson | During the 1930s PHJ
was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner. 17 |
Timeline
October 1947: Stafford Cripps, recently appointed Minister...
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October 1947
Stafford Cripps
, recently appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the postwar Labour
government, delivered the landmark Economic Survey for 1947. This government white paper set out the principles of democratic planning, reconciling...
31 May 1948: Labour member Florence Paton (1891-1976),...
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31 May 1948
Labour
member Florence Paton
(1891-1976), acting as temporary Chairman [sic] of Committees, became the first woman to preside over the House of Commons
.
1 July 1948: The British Labour government's Town and...
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1 July 1948
The BritishLabour
government's Town and Country Planning Act 1947, which introduced a system of planning for urban and industrial development, came into effect.
23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...
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23 February 1950
The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC
aired the first televised report of results of this election.
8 March 1952: The British Labour Party discontinued its...
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8 March 1952
The British Labour Party
discontinued its endorsement of International Women's Day, because of the then close ties of the festival with the Communist Party
.
Barclay, Katie. “Women’s History Month: International Women’s Day!”. Women’s History Network Blog.
Autumn 1952: The annual conference of the Labour Party...
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Autumn 1952
The annual conference of the Labour Party
(now out of office) confirmed its commitment to comprehensive education (i.e. nonselective schools at secondary level).
3 October 1952: The UK exploded its first atom bomb, off...
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3 October 1952
The UK exploded its first atom bomb, off the Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia.
8 January 1954: The Labour Party revised its Challenge to...
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8 January 1954
The Labour Party
revised its Challenge to Britain manifesto to state that equal pay legislation would be implemented under its government.
3 July 1956: Bessie Braddock, for many years Labour MP...
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3 July 1956
Bessie Braddock
, for many years Labour
MP for the inner-city seat of Liverpool Exchange, made one of her grabs for the limelight by firing unloaded air-rifles on the floor of the House of Commons
.
15 May 1957: The Conservative government went ahead with...
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15 May 1957
The Conservative government went ahead with the explosion (over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific) of Britain's first thermonuclear bomb.
4 October 1957: At the Labour Party conference at Brighton...
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4 October 1957
At the Labour Party
conference at Brighton Aneurin Bevan
revealed that the party's executive committee was against the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
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November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
1961: The Electrical Trades Union was expelled...
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1961
The Electrical Trades Union
was expelled from the both the Trades Union Congress
(TUC) and the Labour Party
amid allegations of malpractice and ballot-rigging on the part of its Communist
leadership.
15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...
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15 October 1964
The Labour Party
came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson
became Prime Minister.
31 March 1966: In the general election the Labour Party...
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31 March 1966
In the general election the Labour Party
under Harold Wilson
increased its majority from four to nearly a hundred.
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