Labour Party

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...

This pamphlet was reprinted in 1982 in a limited edition of 700, from a copy rescued from a rubbish bin in the Labour Party Library in the 1970s. One of the reprints was recently offered...

When a revised constitution allowed individuals to join the Labour Party directly, instead of via one of its affiliated organisations, MAH got to know and appreciate the Trade Union side of the party.

MAH sat as Labour Member of Parliament for Blackburn in Lancashire. She won her seat in the Flapper Election and lost it in the landslide victory of the National Coalition government on 27 October 1931.

The final meeting of the Socialist International was held in Vienna; Mary Agnes Hamilton attended as one of the Labour Party delegation from Britain.

In Arthur Henderson : A Biography (on which she had been working since 1935) Mary Agnes Hamilton celebrated a Labour Party and disarmament leader, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Mary Agnes Hamilton issued through the Labour Book Service an official booklet entitled The Labour Party To-Day: What it is and How it Works.

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...

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...

NJ issued a novel entitled The Beloved Physician, dedicated to Ethel Bentham , a fellow Labour Party member, as the really and rightly Beloved Physician.

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...

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.

Here she observed, together with her local contacts, the country's impoverished, violent, politically-uncertain climate. She deepened her friendship with Lilo Linke , a young woman she had first met at the Labour Party Conference held...

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

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...