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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. Liddell, Robert, and Francis King. Elizabeth and Ivy. Peter Owen. 108, 113 |
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. 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, pp. 205-25. 212 |
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 | 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. 204 |
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 | 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. 83 |
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 | 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 | 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). 175 |
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... |
Timeline
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)...
Women writers item
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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