Labour Party

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Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Nina Bawden
Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales,
Watts, Janet. “Nina Bawden Obituary”. The Guardian, 22 Aug. 2012.
NB was passionately involved in the post-war election of 26 July 1945, which returned the Labour Party with a landslide majority...
politics Dora Russell
She prepared evidence with John Maynard Keynes , St John Hutchinson , and John St Loe Strachey (father of writer Amabel Williams-Ellis ). At issue, ostensibly, was the inclusion of diagrams in the pamphlet. DR
politics Angela Carter
AC 's politics were those of the left, following the Labour convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and went on several of its Easter marches to...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
SP turned down an opportunity to stand as Labour candidate for Sheffield because her views now called for a total revolution of democratic procedures, including Parliament.
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987.
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politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
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...
politics Dora Russell
DR was involved with the Labour Party , the Independent Labour Party (ILP ), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School , where...
politics Jane Hume Clapperton
She was a member of the International Labour Party (ILP),
Waters, Chris. British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Montefiore, Dora. “Jane Hume Clapperton Speaks”. New Age, 4 May 1905, p. 288.
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and also supported the Anarchist Legitimation League .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
166
Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke, 2002.
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politics Virginia Woolf
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...
politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
A reviewer...
politics Maude Royden
MR spoke in support of the NUWSS 's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party at the Royal Albert Hall.
“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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politics Virginia Woolf
But Woolf recorded in her diary in May 1940: Thinking is my fighting.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Her thinking manifested itself in various ways. She was involved to varying degrees with a number of leftist associations: the Labour Party
politics Rose Macaulay
Sufficiently in sympathy with revolution to belong to the 1917 Club , RM was a pacifist between the wars, though she belonged to no particular group. In 1935 she voted for a (female) Labour Party
politics Maude Royden
Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party ; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party 's recent concern for it caused the society to change...
politics Katharine Bruce Glasier
Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett
politics Amabel Williams-Ellis
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...

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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.
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, 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.
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Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
102
McKibbin, Ross. “Not Pleasing the Tidy-Minded”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 8, 24 Apr. 2008, pp. 30-1.
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Johnson, R. W. “Already a Member”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2014, pp. 31-2.
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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.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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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.
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, No. 2, June 1992, pp. 401-15.
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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.
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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.
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“Britain drops its first H-bomb”. BBC News: On This Day, 15 May 1957.

4 October 1957: At the Labour Party conference at Brighton...

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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...

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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.
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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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