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James Ramsay MacDonald
Standard Name: MacDonald, James Ramsay
Used Form: J. Ramsey MacDonald
Used Form: Ramsay MacDonald
Connections
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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
... |
politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
politics | Alison Uttley | By the 1930s AU
's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald
's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of... |
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 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 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... |
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
. |
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... |
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. 7 |
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....
National or international item
21 September 1931
Britain abandoned the gold standard.
30 July 1932: The Independent Labour Party, increasingly...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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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