Labour Party

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

By this time she was in full revolt against the cultural expectations of her mother and indeed her class, and her behaviour in India was so wild and flirtatious that she was sent home in...

Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group (later known as Moral Rearmament ), became a...

KN 's mother, Ellen Nott , was a formidable matriarch who managed a boarding house in Brixton, South London. Her early life had been difficult, given the exploitation of her and some ten siblings...

One of Gardiner's great-grandfathers was the Victorian author Dionysius Lardner , who extramaritally fathered Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot, better known as playwright Dion Boucicault . His family had strong links with the theatre.

KN 's father, Philip Nott , was a lithographic printer. He was something he called a liberal, which meant he probably voted Liberal and disapproved of war, capitalism, the Labour Party , and God. He...

In an atmosphere of social, political, and artistic upheaval, art and politics merged in the public mind, and Bloomsbury was perceived as politically and aesthetically revolutionary. Stansky quotes a critic writing in the Daily Herald...

After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour politicians Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee , through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were...

AU 's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn , later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher ), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley . In London she became a...

BW formed the Half-Circle Club for wives of Labour MPs.

This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.

Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...

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 novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds.

AT 's next novel, Peace Breaks Out, 1946, continues her investigation into the new Britain. The election which brought Labour to power (on 26 July 1945) is fought out in Barsetshire between the...