Labour Party

Working for the Labour Party in summer 1945, CM wrote a number of reports on current and remembered political issues: among other things she covered the fishing industry (ten thousand words), the government of New...

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

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...

Before the turn of the century she gave up teaching to become a full-time writer. She also became a patron of and ambassador for several charities: the National Council for One-Parent Families (now known as...

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...

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

Nevertheless she was constantly painting, pursuing her ambition to be an artist. She also worked for the Labour Party . During the 1970s she worked as a home tutor for the Inner London Education Authority

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...

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...

The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee , supported by Labour Party politicians Tony Benn , Margaret Beckett , and Gordon Brown , lobbied for a statue of SP to be chosen to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square.

CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...

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...

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...

She is not slow to take a public political stance. To her 11 million followers on Twitter , she tweeted before the 2016 referendum on Britain's  leaving or remaining within the European Union (Brexit) that...

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...