British Commonwealth League

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Una Marson
UM was delighted to meet Winifred Holtby , for whom she had great admiration, at a British Commonwealth League conference.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
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politics Una Marson
At a British Commonwealth League conference, UM gave a speech criticising colonial education for promoting old Imperialist propaganda instead of produc[ing] useful citizens of their own countries.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
73
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. The Life of Una Marson, 1905-65. Manchester University Press, 1998.
73, 78n9
politics Una Marson
During her time in London, UM also made contact with the Women's International Alliance and the Women's Peace Crusade . She was particularly active in the British Commonwealth League , whose aim was to foster...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
From 1921 to 1924, MHVR was the president of the National Women Citizen's Association . During this decade, she was also an executive member of the Women's Consultative Committee , chaired by Nancy, Lady Astor
Textual Production Elspeth Huxley
EH 's collection of books about Africa was bought by the University of California at Santa Barbara . She rejected an offer by Boston University for her papers with a claim to have destroyed all...

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2 February 1927
Margaret Rhondda , as Chairman of the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee , with many other suffrage veterans, signed a letter to the editor of The Times pressing for women to vote on equal terms with men.

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