Labour Party

In an atmosphere of social, political, and artistic upheaval, art and politics merged in the public mind, and Bloomsbury was perceived as politically and aesthetically revolutionary. Stansky quotes a critic writing in the Daily Herald...

VW 's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was...

But Woolf recorded in her diary in May 1940: Thinking is my fighting. Her thinking manifested itself in various ways. She was involved to varying degrees with a number of leftist associations: the Labour Party

AWE and her brother John Strachey , future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party (which was founded by Keir Hardie in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party , and disaffiliated from it...

RW met Emma Goldman in London, and joined her in her campaign against Bolshevism and its support in the Labour Party in Britain.

By this time she was in full revolt against the cultural expectations of her mother and indeed her class, and her behaviour in India was so wild and flirtatious that she was sent home in...

Under her editorship the list included Frances Cornford , Joan Adeney Easdale , Ida Graves , Vita Sackville-West , Margaret Thomas (as editor), Julian Bell , Cecil Day-Lewis , John Lehmann , F. L. Lucas

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.

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.