Labour Party

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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.
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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 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 Rebecca West
RW met Emma Goldman in London, and joined her in her campaign against Bolshevism and its support in the Labour Party in Britain.
Rollyson, Carl. Rebecca West: A Saga of the Century. Hodder and Stoughton.
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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 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.
politics Ruth Rendell
During the 1980s RR was active in support both of the Labour Party and of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Later she was involved with Emily's List (founded in February 1993 with the aim...
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 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 Naomi Jacob
NJ , formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears.
Bailey, Paul. Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. Hamish Hamilton (Penguin).
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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...
politics Annie Besant
The London School Board implemented a fair wages clause for the award of contracts, as a result of pressure from Labour members led by Annie Besant .
Hollis, Patricia. Ladies Elect: Women in English Local Government, 1865-1914. Clarendon.
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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 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 Iris Murdoch
IM once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking...

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November 1967: The pound sterling was devalued, something...

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November 1967

The pound sterling was devalued, something which Harold Wilson 's Labour government had been trying in vain to prevent.

19 June 1970: The day after a surprise Conservative victory...

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19 June 1970

The day after a surprise Conservative victory in the general election, Edward Heath formed the government (succeeding to the Labour administration of Harold Wilson ).

1971: In a crucial parliamentary vote on Britain's...

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1971

In a crucial parliamentary vote on Britain's future entry into the European Community or Common Market, Conservative members plus 68 pro-European Labour members voted in favour.

4 March 1974: Labour having come first past the post in...

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4 March 1974

Labour having come first past the post in the general election of 28 February, Harold Wilson formed his second government (a minority one), replacing ConservativeEdward Heath as Prime Minister.

10 April 1974: The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry...

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10 April 1974

The Annan Committee began work on its enquiry into the structure, funding, and future of British broadcasting.

10 October 1974: In the second general election of the year,...

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10 October 1974

In the second general election of the year, the Labour Party under Harold Wilson moved from being a minority government to holding a majority of three.

27 January 1979: A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public...

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27 January 1979

A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public sector workers ushered in a series of selective strikes which gave rise to the Shakespearean phrase winter of discontent.

3 October 1980: The Housing Act passed by Margaret Thatcher's...

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3 October 1980

The Housing Act passed by Margaret Thatcher 's recently-elected Conservative government came into effect, giving five million council house tenants in England and Wales the right to buy their homes from local authorities

March 1981: Breakaway Labour members of parliament—Roy...

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March 1981

Breakaway Labour members of parliament—Roy Jenkins , Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain ), David Owen , and William Rodgers —left the party to found the Social Democratic Party, or SDP .

November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...

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November 1981

Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain ) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party , to win a seat in Parliament : for Crosby, Lancashire.

9 June 1983: Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party,...

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9 June 1983

Michael Foot , leader of the Labour Party , signally failed in the general election to shake the reign of Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . He was soon afterwards replaced as party leader by Welshman Neil Kinnock .

9 April 1992: The general election returned the Conservative...

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9 April 1992

The general election returned the Conservative Party under its new leader, John Major , to power, to the surprise of pollsters who had predicted a Labour win.

6 February 1993: Emily's List (from the acronym Early Money...

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6 February 1993

Emily's List (from the acronym Early Money is Like Yeast as a rising agent) was founded in the UK as campaign to fund Labour women to run for parliament.

1 May 1997: In the general election Labour, under its...

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1 May 1997

In the general election Labour , under its new leader, the young Scotsman Tony Blair , at last dislodged the Conservative Party from government.

September 1997: Following an election pledge by the British...

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September 1997

Following an election pledge by the British Labour Party , a referendum was held in Wales on the issue of Devolution for that country (a transfer of certain powers from central government to a Welsh...

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