James Ramsay MacDonald

Standard Name: MacDonald, James Ramsay
Used Form: J. Ramsey MacDonald
Used Form: Ramsay MacDonald

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politics Vernon Lee
VL , along with Ramsay MacDonald , Norman Angell , and Charles Trevelyan , became an early member of the Union of Democratic Control .
Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography. University of Virginia Press.
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politics Eleanor Rathbone
Britain, she said, must see that women are able to take their share in promoting and shaping their own destinies in the future government of India.
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
111
She also lobbied Ramsay MacDonald , Wedgwood Benn
politics Amber Reeves
Fifteen women were elected to this parliament. AR knew she had no chance of election: it was a hopeless seat for her to contest. (Her husband had stood unsuccessfully in a different constituency in 1924.)...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...
politics Eva Gore-Booth
The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...
Textual Features Christina Stead
This novel is again divided not into chapters but into scenes. It is prefaced by a page headed Credo, with quotations from its characters, including Jules Bertillon's No one ever had enough money and...
Textual Features Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH points out how odd it was that people should see as typically English this man of Scottish labouring origins. A high proportion of successful Englishmen are, in fact, Scots. Not few of them, moreover...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Mary Agnes Hamilton 's biography The Man of To-morrow: J. Ramsay MacDonald appeared from L. Parsons as by Iconoclast; it was re-issued the same year by the Independent Labour Party .
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
Again she found herself assistant editor, this time of a political journal which was just changing its image as it changed its name from The Labour Leader. By this time she had become well...
Textual Production Mary Agnes Hamilton
In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lucille Iremonger
Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington to Chamberlain were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first...

Timeline

21 September 1931: Britain abandoned the gold standard....

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21 September 1931

Britain abandoned the gold standard.

30 July 1932: The Independent Labour Party, increasingly...

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30 July 1932

The Independent Labour Party , increasingly disillusioned with the Labour Party 's movement towards the centre, took a decision to disaffiliate from its own larger and more successful offspring.

7 June 1935: Stanley Baldwin, now of the National Coalition...

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7 June 1935

Stanley Baldwin , now of the National Coalition Party , became Prime Minister for the third time, following MacDonald 's retirement.

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