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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Katharine Conway (later KBG
) was the only woman on the committee that brought into official being on this date the Independent Labour Party
(ILP). Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research. 190:122 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
joined the Independent Labour Party
during the week before the outbreak of the Great War (later called the First World War). It was, she wrote, the leading force for peace and socialism until after... |
| politics | George Orwell | Through his association with the Independent Labour Party
, GO
served in the POUM
militia, an independent Marxist organization, in Spain. Davison, Peter. George Orwell: A Literary Life. St Martin’s Press. xviii |
| politics | Beatrice Webb | This same year the Webbs (not without some regret for the Liberals) joined the Independent Labour Party
. |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was chosen as the Independent Labour Party
candidate for the Manchester School Board; she was not, however, elected. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 34 |
| politics | Amabel Williams-Ellis | AWE
and her brother John Strachey
, future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party
(which was founded by Keir Hardie
in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party
, and disaffiliated from it... |
| politics | Charlotte Despard | By the following year she had joined the Social Democratic Federation
and the Independent Labour Party
. Mulvihill, Margaret. Charlotte Despard: A Biography. Pandora. 196 |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
and some female members of the Independent Labour Party
formed the Women's Social and Political Union
, with the slogan Votes for Women! Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 48 |
| politics | George Egerton | Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE
attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie
and Henry Hyndman
, and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham
... |
| politics | Margaret Harkness | She was an active member of various socialist parties between 1887 and 1891, including the Social Democratic Federation
and the Independent Labour Party
, though she later called socialism both foolish and wrong. Goode, John. “Margaret Harkness and the Socialist Novel”. The Socialist Novel in Britain: Towards the Recovery of a Tradition, edited by H. Gustav Klaus, Harvester Press, pp. 45-66. 49 |
| politics | Emmeline Pankhurst | At their annual conference in Cardiff, the Independent Labour Party
elected EP
to their National Administrative Council and advised the council to support the Women's Enfranchisement Bill. Christian Holiday Calendar. http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/calendar//Welcome.html. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint. 48-9 |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
became a member of the Independent Labour Party
in the same month as its formation, because she believed it stood for equality and opportunity for the whole race . . . women had never... |
| politics | Ethel Mannin | EM
joined the Independent Labour Party
(which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party
the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader. Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, pp. 205-25. 212 |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
was elected to the National Administrative Council
of the Independent Labour Party
, a position she held for four years, until April 1907. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. xi, 89 |
| politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett |
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