Croft, Andy. “Ethel Mannin: The Red Rose of Love and the Red Flower of Liberty”. Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939, edited by Angela Ingram and Daphne Patai, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 205-25.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | J. K. Rowling | 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... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | She used her position to advocate on behalf of women's suffrage, which she believed to be an integral part of socialism. She spoke to this effect on several occasions, including the annual conferences of the... |
| politics | Ethel Mannin | EM
joined the Independent Labour Party
(which had disaffiliated from the decreasingly radical Labour Party
the previous summer); she soon began writing regularly for its paper, the New Leader. |
| politics | Michèle Roberts | Not long afterwards, she and her friends in London were pursuing street politics to the left of the Labour Party
, like mounting a carnival float at a CND
festival to represent and caricature Real... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | When she was invited to stand as a Labour Party
candidate in the 1918 general election, however, she declined, primarily on grounds of her advancing age. A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Europa, 2003. |
| politics | Eva Gore-Booth | 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
... |
| politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET
took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party
. At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with... |
| politics | Naomi Mitchison | NM
attended the annual Labour Party
Conference as delegate of the Argyll Constituency Party. Mitchison, Naomi. You May Well Ask: A Memoir 1920-1940. Gollancz, 1979. 204 |
| politics | Phyllis Bentley | PB
grew increasingly conservative, socially if not in party politics, as she grew older. She identified herself as a Liberal, and was uncomfortable about the Welfare State system launched while the Labour Party
held power... |
| politics | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | The group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men... |
| politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | The establishment of the League, which was the first attempt to form a separate organization for women within the Labour Party
, was met with mixed feelings by IOF
, who always believed that men's... |
| politics | Graham Greene | 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... |
| politics | Beatrice Webb | 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. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press, 1984. 196, 206 |
| politics | Naomi Jacob | 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... |
| politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Her politics remained steadily Labour
. She took a public stand against the military coup in Greece in 1967 and boycotted South African produce in protest against apartheid. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen, 1986. 108, 113 |
Timeline
October 1947: Stafford Cripps, recently appointed Minister...
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October 1947
Stafford Cripps
, recently appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the postwar Labour
government, delivered the landmark Economic Survey for 1947. This government white paper set out the principles of democratic planning, reconciling...
31 May 1948: Labour member Florence Paton (1891-1976),...
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31 May 1948
Labour
member Florence Paton
(1891-1976), acting as temporary Chairman [sic] of Committees, became the first woman to preside over the House of Commons
.
Stenton, Michael, and Stephen Lees, editors. Who’s Who of British Members of Parliament. Harvester Press, 1976–1981, 4 vols.
United Kingdom Parliament. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/.
1 July 1948: The British Labour government's Town and...
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1 July 1948
The BritishLabour
government's Town and Country Planning Act 1947, which introduced a system of planning for urban and industrial development, came into effect.
Jowit, Juliette. “Planning and placemaking: The act that built Britain”. The Observer, 27 May 2007, p. Special Report 1.
Special Report 1
Clark, Keith C. “The British Government’s Town and Country Planning Act: A Study in Conflicting Liberalisms”. Political Science Quarterly, Vol.
66
, No. 1, Mar. 1951, pp. 87-103. 87-103
23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...
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23 February 1950
The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC
aired the first televised report of results of this election.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
381
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
McKibbin, Ross. “Not Pleasing the Tidy-Minded”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 8, 24 Apr. 2008, pp. 30-1. 31
Johnson, R. W. “Already a Member”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2014, pp. 31-2. 32
8 March 1952: The British Labour Party discontinued its...
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8 March 1952
The British Labour Party
discontinued its endorsement of International Women's Day, because of the then close ties of the festival with the Communist Party
.
Barclay, Katie. “Women’s History Month: International Women’s Day!”. Women’s History Network Blog, 8 Mar. 2011.
Autumn 1952: The annual conference of the Labour Party...
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Autumn 1952
The annual conference of the Labour Party
(now out of office) confirmed its commitment to comprehensive education (i.e. nonselective schools at secondary level).
Simon, Brian. The State and Educational Change: Essays in the History of Education and Pedagogy. Lawrence and Wishart, 1994.
168
3 October 1952: The UK exploded its first atom bomb, off...
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3 October 1952
The UK exploded its first atom bomb, off the Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
33
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
405
8 January 1954: The Labour Party revised its Challenge to...
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8 January 1954
The Labour Party
revised its Challenge to Britain manifesto to state that equal pay legislation would be implemented under its government.
Smith, Harold L. “The Politics of Conservative Reform: The Equal Pay for Equal Work Issue, 1945-1955”. The Historical Journal, Vol.
35
, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 401-15. 410
3 July 1956: Bessie Braddock, for many years Labour MP...
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3 July 1956
Bessie Braddock
, for many years Labour
MP for the inner-city seat of Liverpool Exchange, made one of her grabs for the limelight by firing unloaded air-rifles on the floor of the House of Commons
.
“Battling Bessie”. BBC: Legacies Liverpool: Local Legends.
2
Braddock, (Bessie) Elisabeth. http://web.archive.org/web/20090116224034/http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=369.
15 May 1957: The Conservative government went ahead with...
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15 May 1957
The Conservative government went ahead with the explosion (over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific) of Britain's first thermonuclear bomb.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.
33
“Britain drops its first H-bomb”. BBC News: On This Day, 15 May 1957.
4 October 1957: At the Labour Party conference at Brighton...
National or international item
4 October 1957
At the Labour Party
conference at Brighton Aneurin Bevan
revealed that the party's executive committee was against the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Aneurin Bevan
November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
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November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
1961: The Electrical Trades Union was expelled...
National or international item
1961
The Electrical Trades Union
was expelled from the both the Trades Union Congress
(TUC) and the Labour Party
amid allegations of malpractice and ballot-rigging on the part of its Communist
leadership.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson, editors. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. Third edition, Longman, 1996.
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15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...
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15 October 1964
The Labour Party
came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson
became Prime Minister.
Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.
45
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
492, 422
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
Greenslade, M. W. “Smethwick: Parliamentary History”. British History Online: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Staffordshire, Volume XVII, 1976.
Younge, Gary. “The colour of politics in Britain today”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 May 2005, p. 17.
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31 March 1966: In the general election the Labour Party...
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31 March 1966
In the general election the Labour Party
under Harold Wilson
increased its majority from four to nearly a hundred.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
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