Labour Party

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...

MG 's earliest adult writing was bound up with her political activities. She began with editing a woman's page in Labour News, our local baby weekly put out by the LeedsLabour Church ...

Her most controversial newspaper piece was a long article on women's suffrage for the Yorkshire Weekly Post, a reply to a piece by a male journalist. The two pounds she earned for this were...

The novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds.

Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett

Meanwhile, KBG returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's...

KBG was delighted to see the Labour Party come to power in the general election of 26 July 1945. This first majority Labour government in history was to succeed in establishing the first welfare state...

Towards the end of her career, after 1913, KBG also produced articles for the The Labour Woman, as well as League Leaflet. She also wrote a regular column for the Manchester...

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 ...

GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...

In Arthur Henderson : A Biography (on which she had been working since 1935) Mary Agnes Hamilton celebrated a Labour Party and disarmament leader, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mary Agnes Hamilton issued through the Labour Book Service an official booklet entitled The Labour Party To-Day: What it is and How it Works.

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...

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...

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...