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Labour Party
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's allegiance to the mainstream Labour Party
, begun during these years, was maintained throughout her life, although she was one of its outspoken internal critics, for instance on issues of unemployment. |
politics | Jane Hume Clapperton | She
was a member of the International Labour Party
(ILP), Waters, Chris. British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914. Stanford University Press. 45 Montefiore, Dora. “Jane Hume Clapperton Speaks”. New Age, p. 288. 288 Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. 166 Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 172 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | |
politics | George Bernard Shaw | GBS
was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society
, a champion of the Labour Party
, and a vocal supporter... |
politics | Rose Macaulay | 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 |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER
was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett |
politics | Ali Smith | AS
largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on. Gonda, Caroline. “An Other Country? Mapping Scottish/Lesbian/Writing”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 1-24. 5 |
politics | Beatrice Webb | One result of the war was to reveal more clearly, to the Webbs as to others, just how unequal was British society. They became ready to advocate such equalizing measures as higher taxation for the... |
politics | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was even-handed in her actions. During the same year she outspokenly criticised Labour
idol Aneurin Bevan
for what she regarded as a childish display of machismo in irrelevant point-scoring against Churchill
. She accused... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Meanwhile, KBG
returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's... |
politics | Charlotte Despard | CD
stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was... |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was delighted to see the Labour Party
come to power in the general election of 26 July 1945. This first majority Labour government in history was to succeed in establishing the first welfare state... |
politics | Elizabeth Taylor | Just after her mother's death and before her wedding, ET
took the momentous step of joining the Communist Party
. At this date she envisaged economic freedom as connected with freedom of speech, and with... |
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 |
Timeline
October 1947: Stafford Cripps, recently appointed Minister...
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October 1947
Stafford Cripps
, recently appointed Minister for Economic Affairs in the postwar Labour
government, delivered the landmark Economic Survey for 1947. This government white paper set out the principles of democratic planning, reconciling...
31 May 1948: Labour member Florence Paton (1891-1976),...
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31 May 1948
Labour
member Florence Paton
(1891-1976), acting as temporary Chairman [sic] of Committees, became the first woman to preside over the House of Commons
.
1 July 1948: The British Labour government's Town and...
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1 July 1948
The BritishLabour
government's Town and Country Planning Act 1947, which introduced a system of planning for urban and industrial development, came into effect.
23 February 1950: The General Election brought 84 percent of...
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23 February 1950
The General Election brought 84 percent of the British electorate out to vote. The BBC
aired the first televised report of results of this election.
8 March 1952: The British Labour Party discontinued its...
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8 March 1952
The British Labour Party
discontinued its endorsement of International Women's Day, because of the then close ties of the festival with the Communist Party
.
Barclay, Katie. “Women’s History Month: International Women’s Day!”. Women’s History Network Blog.
Autumn 1952: The annual conference of the Labour Party...
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Autumn 1952
The annual conference of the Labour Party
(now out of office) confirmed its commitment to comprehensive education (i.e. nonselective schools at secondary level).
3 October 1952: The UK exploded its first atom bomb, off...
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3 October 1952
The UK exploded its first atom bomb, off the Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia.
8 January 1954: The Labour Party revised its Challenge to...
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8 January 1954
The Labour Party
revised its Challenge to Britain manifesto to state that equal pay legislation would be implemented under its government.
3 July 1956: Bessie Braddock, for many years Labour MP...
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3 July 1956
Bessie Braddock
, for many years Labour
MP for the inner-city seat of Liverpool Exchange, made one of her grabs for the limelight by firing unloaded air-rifles on the floor of the House of Commons
.
15 May 1957: The Conservative government went ahead with...
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15 May 1957
The Conservative government went ahead with the explosion (over Christmas Island in the Central Pacific) of Britain's first thermonuclear bomb.
4 October 1957: At the Labour Party conference at Brighton...
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4 October 1957
At the Labour Party
conference at Brighton Aneurin Bevan
revealed that the party's executive committee was against the policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
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November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
1961: The Electrical Trades Union was expelled...
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1961
The Electrical Trades Union
was expelled from the both the Trades Union Congress
(TUC) and the Labour Party
amid allegations of malpractice and ballot-rigging on the part of its Communist
leadership.
15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...
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15 October 1964
The Labour Party
came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson
became Prime Minister.
31 March 1966: In the general election the Labour Party...
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31 March 1966
In the general election the Labour Party
under Harold Wilson
increased its majority from four to nearly a hundred.
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