Labour Party

The final meeting of the Socialist International was held in Vienna; Mary Agnes Hamilton attended as one of the Labour Party delegation from Britain.

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...

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. A reviewer...

Having earned her bread by work as assistant in a university history department, and as writer, translator, and journalist, MAH entered politics. Journalism continued to provide her main source of income until 1929, and her...

During 1929-31 she also served as a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service . In 1931 she was elected to the parliamentary executive of the Labour Party and often spoke for the...

NJ issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham , a fellow Labour Party member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician.

NJ began her political life as a Tory who thought Socialism deeply shocking, like all or most of the older generation of her very mixed family. She went out canvassing at elections, urging people to...

NJ , formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears.

Here she observed, together with her local contacts, the country's impoverished, violent, politically-uncertain climate. She deepened her friendship with Lilo Linke , a young woman she had first met at the Labour Party Conference held...

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

During the 1930s PHJ was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, by a Time magazine photograph of a girl in a concentration camp. She...