Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Liberal Party
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Nightingale | FN
's father, William Edward Nightingale
, a banker's son and Cambridge-educated Whig
party supporter, was a landowner, a highly cultured country gentleman of ample means. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Kathleen Nott | 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... |
Violence | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal
s after an Independent Labour Party
victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative
had been killed in the mélee. Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst. Kraus Reprint, 1969. 72-3 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emmeline Pankhurst | EP
opens her piece by reference to the Representation of the People Act of December 1884, and the strong popular support on that occasion for an amendment which would have included women in the electorate... |
politics | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst
, arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Literary responses | Eleanor Rathbone | 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... |
politics | Maude Royden | Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party
; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party
's recent concern for it caused the society to change... |
politics | Lady Margaret Sackville | UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party
and the rise of the Labour Party
: Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and... |
politics | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | Henrietta Mendl (later GHS
) campaigned for the Liberals before the general election held on 7 February, in which her brother-in-law Sigi Mendl
was standing for the Liberals
at Stockton-on-Tees. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 69-70 |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | GHS
involved herself with the Liberal Party
in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union
soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts
and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's... |
Cultural formation | Emily Shirreff | |
politics | Constance Smedley | Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal
supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Constance Smedley | The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved... |
Textual Production | Constance Smedley | When CS
first returned to dramatic work after her marriage it was as a collaborator on animated tableaux illustrating a political version of Mary had a Little Lamb (chosen for its connection with the woollen... |
Timeline
11 November 1965: Ian Smith and the white rulers of the British...
National or international item
11 November 1965
Ian Smith
and the white rulers of the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) unilaterally declared independence; the UK declared the regime illegal but did not use force against it.
Howard, Anthony. “The Unsolved Mystery of the Money Tree”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 31.
31
November 1978: The leader of the Liberal Party, Jeremy Thorpe,...
National or international item
November 1978
The leader of the Liberal Party
, Jeremy Thorpe
, was charged by a court at Minehead in Somerset with conspiracy to murder.
Howard, Anthony. “The Unsolved Mystery of the Money Tree”. London Review of Books, 19 Aug. 1999, p. 31.
31
November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...
Women writers item
November 1981
Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party
, to win a seat in Parliament
: for Crosby, Lancashire.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
“Baroness Williams of Crosby (Shirley Williams)”. Liberal Democrats: People.
12 October 2015: The film Suffragette opened at the London...
Building item
12 October 2015
The film Suffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan
and directed by Sarah Gavron
.
Elliott, Edward. “Deeds not words: Forthright new film ’Suffragette’ feels like a fiery call to arms”. Oxford Today, 16 Oct. 2015.
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