Labour Party

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Inspired by hearing Aneurin Bevan speak when she was a young evacuee in Wales,NB was passionately involved in the post-war election of 26 July 1945, which returned the Labour Party with a landslide majority...

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...

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).