League of Nations

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Occupation Kathleen E. Innes
KEI was among those presenting to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva the 14 million signatures on disarmament petitions gathered by the Peoples' Mandate to Governments .
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta.
135, 252
Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
KEI 's The Story of the League of Nations , Told for Young People, a textbook used in British schools, was published by the Hogarth Press .
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
33
Textual Production Kathleen E. Innes
KEI published How the League of Nations Works, Told for Young People with the Hogarth Press : 2,500 copies were printed.
Woolmer, J. Howard, and Mary E. Gaither. A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946. Woolmer/Brotherson.
41, 55
Textual Features Elspeth Huxley
She explained the nature of UN Trusteeship, a programme first established by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations from which it sprang.
politics Winifred Holtby
She and Vera Brittain regularly attended the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva. In 1924 they went on a lecture tour of Central Europe for the Union.
Shaw, Marion. The Clear Stream: A Life of Winifred Holtby. Virago.
112-13
Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus.
219
Through her lectures, WH advocated...
Occupation Mary Agnes Hamilton
In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment...
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...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
The book boasted decorations by B. Aylmer . Contributors included the Countess of Limerick (Crossing the Jordan), Irene Noel-Baker (A Landlord in Greece), Helen Simpson (In Search of Witches),...
politics Isabella Ormston Ford
After the war, IOF increasingly turned her attention towards the promotion of peace and international co-operation through her involvement with the Women's International League as an executive member, and as the secretary of her local...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Charlotte Despard
The diaries cover her part (including her production of journalism) in the political drives towards women's suffrage, pacifism, Irish independence, socialism, penal reform, and the founding of the League of Nations .
“Papers of Charlotte Despard”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
politics Vera Brittain
She and Holtby attended a number of League of Nations Assemblies, including the one held in August 1926 at Geneva in Switzerland, when Germany was accepted into the League. After 1923 these trips were...
Publishing Vera Brittain
By the mid 1920s, VB was an established journalist who published frequently in Time and Tide (she was their League of Nations correspondent) as well as in the Yorkshire Post, Manchester Guardian, Foreign...
politics Stella Benson
SB became a member of a League of NationsCommittee on the International Traffic in Women .
Grant, Joy. Stella Benson: A Biography. Macmillan.
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politics Stella Benson
The society voted to send the report to the Hong Kong government, and then, if necessary, to Westminster. The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir William Peel , was furious, called SB hysterical, and snubbed her...

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