Labour Party

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).

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 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee , supported by Labour Party politicians Tony Benn , Margaret Beckett , and Gordon Brown , lobbied for a statue of SP to be chosen to fill the vacant plinth in Trafalgar Square.

AO was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss , who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of...

It originated from seminars given at the Institute of Education in spring 1993.AO herself contributed the introduction. Writing of the classic welfare state,Rodney Lowe dates its lifetime from 1945 to 1976...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 group's agenda was to obtain legislative improvements in child-assault laws, the position of unmarried mothers, equality of both parents in guardianship rights, equal pay for teachers, equal civic service opportunities for women and men...

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.

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...