Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan.
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Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
| politics | Sylvia Pankhurst | |
| politics | Kate Parry Frye | The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF
's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party
: her mother
expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association
meetings hosted in the... |
| politics | Dora Russell | She prepared evidence with John Maynard Keynes
, St John Hutchinson
, and John St Loe Strachey
(father of writer Amabel Williams-Ellis
). At issue, ostensibly, was the inclusion of diagrams in the pamphlet. DR |
| 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 | Beatrice Webb | BW
, with her husband
, founded the Fabian Research Department
(ancestor of the Labour Party
's department of the same name), and began chairing its many subcommittees. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press. 196, 206 |
| politics | Judith Kazantzis | JK
joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop
, the Labour Party
, and... |
| politics | Dora Russell | 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... |
| politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
joined the Labour Party
shortly after women won the vote. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 199 |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking... |
| politics | Nina Bawden | Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan
speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales, Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian. |
| politics | Angela Carter | AC
's politics were those of the left, following the Labour
convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
and went on several of its Easter marches to... |
| politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | EPL
stood as Labour
candidate for Manchester's Rusholme division in Britain's general election; she was one of sixteen women defeated in this election (the first in which they were eligible to run). Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion. 322-3 “Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Frederick Pethick-Lawrence |
| politics | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society
, a champion of the Labour Party
, and a vocal supporter... |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's allegiance to the mainstream Labour Party
, begun during these years, was maintained throughout her life, although she was one of its outspoken internal critics, for instance on issues of unemployment. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Timeline
Late July 1931: In Britain the confusingly-named May committee...
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Late July 1931
In Britain the confusingly-named May committee responded to escalation both in the international financial crisis and mass unemployment at home, by advising draconian cuts in government expenditure.
26 August 1931: The Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald...
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26 August 1931
The Labour Party
leader James Ramsay MacDonald
organized a National Coalition government; many members of his party felt this to be a betrayal.
27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...
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27 October 1931
In the general election, the National Coalition Government won a landslide victory (a majority of nearly five hundred seats over the combined opposition) but became much more Conservative
in tone than it had been. Most...
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.
March 1935: The League of Nations Union organised a ballot...
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March 1935
The League of Nations Union
organised a ballot in Britain (sometimes misleadingly called the Peace Ballot) on the question of intervention by other nations when one nation attacked another.
1 October 1935: At the Labour Party's annual conference Ernest...
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1 October 1935
At the Labour Party
's annual conference Ernest Bevin
made a dramatic attack on the pacifist views of the leader, George Lansbury
, who thereupon resigned.
14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...
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14 November 1935
A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party
polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.
12 September 1936: Charlotte Haldane edited the first issue...
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12 September 1936
Charlotte Haldane
edited the first issue of Woman Today for the Women's Committee for Peace and Democracy
.
12 April 1938: Physician Edith Summerskill was elected to...
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12 April 1938
10 May 1940: Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain...
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10 May 1940
Winston Churchill
succeeded Neville Chamberlain
as British Prime Minister, heading a Coalition government which was designed to submerge party differences in the joint effort to defeat Hitler.
After 26 July 1945: In the new Labour government, Dr Edith Summerskill...
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After 26 July 1945
In the new Labour
government, Dr Edith Summerskill
was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food. In that position she ensured the compulsory pasteurisation of milk.
July 1945: Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour...
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July 1945
Journalist Barbara Castle
was elected a Labour
member of the British Parliament
, where she served for thirty-four years.
26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...
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26 July 1945
The postwar general election put the Labour Party
in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee
became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison
, Ernest Bevin
, Hugh Dalton
, and Sir...
April 1946 : A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee's...
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April 1946
A fact-finding mission for Clement Attlee
's Labour
government visited Tanganyika (now Tanzania) to investigate the feasibility of a large-scale scheme for cultivating groundnuts (peanuts).
Wood, Alan. The Groundnut Affair. Bodley Head.
June 1947: The Labour Party declared its government...
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June 1947
The Labour Party
declared its government would not be introducing equal pay legislation.
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