Labour Party

Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales,NB was passionately involved in the post-war election of 26 July 1945, which returned the Labour Party with a landslide majority...

The narrator of her novel Afternoon of a Good Woman, 1976, is also a magistrate. NB wrote, I was a political appointment, in the sense that the local Labour Party , asked to put...

NB calls her central character, Elizabeth Jourdelay, submerged but battling. Elizabeth deceives her husband, not because she has a lover, but because she is attending a Labour Party meeting. Of the novel's three strands...

This is in part a memoir about personal grief. She juxtaposes the material details of loss (the watch still going, the unnaturally tidy desk), with the intimacy of memory, the abandoned plans for the future...

The title of this novel comes from the biblical Book of Proverbs: a servant when he reigneth is one of three things for which, it says, the earth is disquieted. Examples of such disquiet...

This time the male protagonist is Sir Anthony Nugent, Governor of the Punjab, and whereas Bell's first heroine came from a leisured life on family money, the new one has been playing a public...

Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group (later known as Moral Rearmament ), became a...

PB grew increasingly conservative, socially if not in party politics, as she grew older. She identified herself as a Liberal, and was uncomfortable about the Welfare State system launched while the Labour Party held power...

The London School Board implemented a fair wages clause for the award of contracts, as a result of pressure from Labour members led by Annie Besant .

After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour politicians Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee , through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were...

During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of...

One of Gardiner's great-grandfathers was the Victorian author Dionysius Lardner , who extramaritally fathered Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, better known as playwright Dion Boucicault . His family had strong links with the theatre.

VB and George Catlin , political scientist and Labour intellectual, were married in a fashionable white wedding at St James's, Spanish Place, London.

VB gave birth in London to her daughter, Shirley Vivian Catlin , who as Shirley Williams later became a Labour politician and cabinet minister.

MB merges elements of fantasy with autobiography in order to analyse the impact of war on young people. The setting of the story is complicated in that it strives to occupy a space of...