Labour Party

During the 1930s PHJ was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, by a Time magazine photograph of a girl in a concentration camp. She...

Nevertheless she was constantly painting, pursuing her ambition to be an artist. She also worked for the Labour Party . During the 1970s she worked as a home tutor for the Inner London Education Authority

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...

Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the...

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

He is often remembered as a racist, on account of disgracefully vituperative letters and private light verse written during his late, right-wing period, when niggers were hate-figures to him along with Commies and the Labour Party

The political theorist Harold Laski was ML 's uncle. Laski, a professor at the London School of Economics, was the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. His books on the Second World War, the...

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

In summer 1945, as the date of the general election approached, CM began working for the Labour Party : quite a good job in the research dept, but we are drowned in work. She...

Working for the Labour Party in summer 1945, CM wrote a number of reports on current and remembered political issues: among other things she covered the fishing industry (ten thousand words), the government of New...

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.

NM attended the annual Labour Party Conference as delegate of the Argyll Constituency Party.

Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...

The story sounds characteristic of EMM . Mary Lavender has been left a wealthy widow after ten years of marriage to a rich, heartless, middle-aged north-country industrialist. His will, which left her everything he had...

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...