Labour Party

Also in December 1929, ER introduced an amendment to a Labour motion favouring native paramountcy in colonial territories. Rathbone added the last word to the motion that Native self-government should be fostered; and franchise...

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...

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. A reviewer...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...