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Textual Production Angela Thirkell
After The Duke's Daughter, AT was delighted in Happy Returns, 1952 (Happy Return in the USA), to celebrate the Conservative return to power at the general election of 26 October 1951.
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Smedley
The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Smedley
Commoners' Rights is a record of the warfare that started up and raged about Minchinhampton Common, ending in its ultimate purchase by the Nation. The cause of the commoners, first taken up by the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Heyrick
She wrote on the important local stocking industry in A Letter of Remonstrance from an Impartial Public to the Hosiers of Leicester, 1825, which supports the workers in a strike. She addressed the topic...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Burnet
Depending on her correspondent, EB writes like a scholar, an author, and a political lobbyist. To Trumbull, a moderate Tory , she paints the extremists in his party as a company of unjust & extravagant...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sarah, Lady Piers
But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not),
Sarah, Lady Piers,. George for Britain. A Poem. Bernard Lintott.
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faction, and rebellion (imaged as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Crommelin
After this, run-of-the-mill romance for a long time eclipses the potentially subversive hunting angle. Jack and Violet are of course attracted to each other; from the first he is curious to see . ....
Violence Emmeline Pankhurst
EP was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal s after an Independent Labour Party victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative had been killed in the mélee.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint.
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Timeline

27 October 1931: Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected...

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27 October 1931

Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives to the British Parliament , where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.

14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...

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14 November 1935

A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.

28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain, as Conservative leader...

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28 May 1937

Neville Chamberlain , as Conservative leader within the coalition government called National, became British Prime Minister following Stanley Baldwin 's resignation.

26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...

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26 July 1945

The postwar general election put the Labour Party in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison , Ernest Bevin , Hugh Dalton , and Sir...

Early 1948: In the spring the Conservative Party established...

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Early 1948

In the spring the Conservative Party established the Committee on Women's Questions , chaired by Malcolm McCorquodale .

March 1949: The Committee on Women's Questions issued...

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March 1949

The Committee on Women's Questions issued its report, A True Balance, which recommended that the Conservative Party should pursue equal pay when it regained office.

February 1951: The Bow Group was founded as an organisation...

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February 1951

The Bow Group was founded as an organisation of younger members of the Conservative Party , to carry out and publish research on political issues.

Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...

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Late 1951

Winston Churchill 's Conservative government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.

6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...

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6 April 1955

Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party , following Churchill 's resignation.

26 May 1955: At the general election the Conservative...

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26 May 1955

At the general election the Conservative Party increased its majority (it had a particular majority among women voters); the number of women MPs went up from seventeen to twenty-four.

8 October 1959: In the general election the Conservatives...

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8 October 1959

In the general election the Conservatives under Harold Macmillan increased their majority. Margaret Thatcher (who had first stood for the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950) was elected Conservative member of parliament for Finchley.

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...

July 1962: In a surprise move later called the night...

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July 1962

In a surprise move later called the night of the long knives, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan replaced a third of his Cabinet .

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.

19 June 1970: The day after a surprise Conservative victory...

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19 June 1970

The day after a surprise Conservative victory in the general election, Edward Heath formed the government (succeeding to the Labour administration of Harold Wilson ).

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