Independent Labour Party

During the 1930s, EM was an atheist and a member of the Independent Labour Party . She later leaned more towards anarchism and pacifism. She described herself as an champion for freedom who opposed the...

The UDC drew together ILP socialists, liberal radicals, and suffragists. It confirmed, by resolution, the equal citizenship of men and women, and supported women's right to vote.

After their marriage, KBG and her husband, John Bruce Glasier , formed an effective socialist partnership very much like that of Sidney and Beatrice Webb . They maintained their involvement in the Independent Labour Party

Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and...

Several members of the Women's International League were committed suffragists, including Helena Swanwick , Maude Royden , Margaret Ashton , Kate Courtney , and Charlotte Despard . Others were IOF 's old friends from the...

Meanwhile, KBG returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's...

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

DR was involved with the Labour Party , the Independent Labour Party (ILP ), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School , where...

She admired the Viennese civic institutions, endured sniping by the Independent Labour Party against the Labour Party, and was disturbed at the impotence and divided and distracted mind of the German delegations.

EP was elected to the Manchester School Board under the aegis of the Independent Labour Party ; she served on it until 1903.

During her husband 's illness, between autumn 1916 and April 1921, KBG took over the editorship of The Labour Leader, the prime propaganda vessel of the Independent Labour Party . In this time she...

The chair of the judges, Shami Chakrabarti (an Independent Labour Party politician, then a director of Liberty , formerly the National Council for Civil Liberties) described AS 's work as a tender, brilliant, and witty...

Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...

The ILP 's New Leader called this novel far removed . . . from the mass conflicts of the age. The party leader, James Maxton , suggested that EM ought to write instead the...

This work was shaped by her observations at Independent Labour Party summer schools; she incorporates portraits of her then-colleagues the future Fascist Oswald Mosley and Labour leader Aneurin Bevan . The novel is concerned with...