Labour Party

In a whole series of comic novels set in Barsetshire, AT deliberately recreated an Anthony-Trollope -like, present-day yet almost period world of the country gentry and the cathedral close. She called herself a sardonic...

AT 's next novel, Peace Breaks Out, 1946, continues her investigation into the new Britain. The election which brought Labour to power (on 26 July 1945) is fought out in Barsetshire between the...

Private Enterprise was followed by Love Among the Ruins, 1948 (a title borrowed from Robert Browning ), The Old Bank House, 1949, and The Duke's Daughter, 1951. The draft of Love Among...

AT turns her satire on topical issues (notably, again, the Labour government ) as well as on individuals. This is another novel which engages, tongue-in-cheek as usual, with issues of nationality, imbricated as...

She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...

AU 's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn , later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher ), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley . In London she became a...

Generally Rowland Rash was Conservative, while Doreen was socialist although only intermittently in agreement with the current policies of the Labour Party . Late in life she opposed Britain's entry into the European Economic Community

HSW was a member of the British Labour Party . She volunteered as a clerk at her local party office in Marylebone, and participated in May Day demonstrations.

HSW was recruited into the British Communist Party while she was still a member of the Labour Party ; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life.

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.

BW formed the Half-Circle Club for wives of Labour MPs.

BW 's husband was elevated to a peerage—for the reason that the Labour government urgently needed a Secretary of State in the House of Lords. Beatrice refused to be known by the title of Lady.

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...

One result of the war was to reveal more clearly, to the Webbs as to others, just how unequal was British society. They became ready to advocate such equalizing measures as higher taxation for the...

Beginning as a Labour Government was formed (with Sidney Webb as a member), this contains vivid personal sketches of leading politicians.