Independent Labour Party

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...

Having left the north to lead a pampered life in London with a hastily-chosen and clearly unsuitable old school friend as companion, she tries to do good in collaboration with the local clergyman. He complicates...

Through his association with the Independent Labour Party , GO served in the POUM militia, an independent Marxist organization, in Spain.

EP was chosen as the Independent Labour Party candidate for the Manchester School Board; she was not, however, elected.

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

EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!

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.

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.

When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series...

She discovered another area of discrimination when a branch of the Independent Labour Party , which invited her to decorate a hall in memory of her father, turned out not to admit women as members.

On the wall above her deathbed hung an election manifesto written by her father when he was a candidate for the Independent Labour Party in Manchester in 1895. Emperor Haile Selassie ensured that she should...

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...

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...

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...

Other speakers included Vera Brittain , Clemence Dane , Megan Lloyd George , and Storm Jameson (all Six Point Vice-Presidents). The conference also involved the Married Women's Association and the National Union of Women Teachers