Labour Party

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politics Antonia Fraser
In December 1978 AF voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and...
politics Harriet Shaw Weaver
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.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
328, 366
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 Kate Parry Frye
The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...
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 Harriet Shaw Weaver
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.
Lidderdale, Jane, and Mary Nicholson. Dear Miss Weaver. Viking.
359
politics Lady Margaret Sackville
UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party and the rise of the Labour Party : Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and...
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.
81
Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press.
125
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 Mary Agnes Hamilton
She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it...
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.
Radice, Lisanne. Beatrice and Sidney Webb: Fabian Socialists. St Martin’s Press.
196, 206
politics Judith Kazantzis
JK joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop , the Labour Party , and...
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 Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL stood as Labour candidate for Manchester's Rusholme division in Britain's general election; she was one of sixteen women defeated in this election (the first in which they were eligible to run).
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
322-3
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Frederick Pethick-Lawrence
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES joined the Labour Party shortly after women won the vote.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head.
199

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1 July 1999: The devolved Scottish parliament held its...

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1 July 1999

The devolved Scottish parliament held its opening ceremony. Devolution for Scotland (a transfer of some governmental powers from Westminster to Edinburgh) had been an election promise of the British Labour Party in 1997.

4 May 2000: In the first election for the newly created...

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4 May 2000

In the first election for the newly created position of Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone was elected (standing as an Independent after being de-selected by the Labour Party ).

7 June 2001: In the general election the Labour Party...

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7 June 2001

In the general election the Labour Party under Tony Blair lost only a tiny fraction of its huge majority.

May 2003: Valerie Amos became Britain's first black...

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May 2003

Valerie Amos became Britain's first black woman Cabinet minister, following the resignation from Tony Blair 's Labour Cabinet of Clare Short .

5 May 2005: A British general election returned the Labour...

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5 May 2005

A British general election returned the Labour Party under Tony Blair to power with a majority reduced since 2001 but still substantial.

3 May 2007: In elections to the Scottish parliament,...

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3 May 2007

In elections to the Scottish parliament, a chaotic poll featuring large numbers of lost and disqualified votes revealed, several days later, that the Scottish Nationalist Party held a one-seat lead over Labour .

6-11 May 2010: A British general election returned inconclusive...

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6-11 May 2010

A British general election returned inconclusive results and led to days of negotiations among party leaders attempting to form a viable government.

16 June 2016: Jo Cox, a Labour member of parliament and...

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16 June 2016

Jo Cox , a Labour member of parliament and a young mother, was attacked in the street in Birstall (part of her constituency). She was shot and stabbed repeatedly: a hate crime perpetrated by a...

23 June 2016: By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the...

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23 June 2016

By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the British electorate voted for Brexit: that is, to take Britain out of the European Union .

8 June 2017: In a general election called by Britain's...

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8 June 2017

In a general election called by Britain's second-ever female Prime Minister, Theresa May , her Conservative government was returned with a significantly reduced majority, weakening instead of strengthening its hand for the imminent negotiations over...

14 June 2017: A fire started at a little after midnight...

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14 June 2017

A fire started at a little after midnight in the kitchen of a flat on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, a 23-storey building that was home to about 350...

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