Independent Labour Party

The UDC drew together ILP socialists, liberal radicals, and suffragists. It confirmed, by resolution, the equal citizenship of men and women, and supported women's right to vote.

Several members of the Women's International League were committed suffragists, including Helena Swanwick , Maude Royden , Margaret Ashton , Kate Courtney , and Charlotte Despard . Others were IOF 's old friends from the...

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...

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

DR was involved with the Labour Party , the Independent Labour Party (ILP ), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School , where...

Other speakers included Vera Brittain , Clemence Dane , Megan Lloyd George , and Storm Jameson (all Six Point Vice-Presidents). The conference also involved the Married Women's Association and the National Union of Women Teachers

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

Katharine Conway (later KBG ) was the only woman on the committee that brought into official being on this date the Independent Labour Party (ILP).

MAH joined the Independent Labour Party during the week before the outbreak of the Great War (later called the First World War). It was, she wrote, the leading force for peace and socialism until after...

Through his association with the Independent Labour Party , GO served in the POUM militia, an independent Marxist organization, in Spain.

This same year the Webbs (not without some regret for the Liberals) joined the Independent Labour Party .

EP was chosen as the Independent Labour Party candidate for the Manchester School Board; she was not, however, elected.

AWE and her brother John Strachey , future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party (which was founded by Keir Hardie in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party , and disaffiliated from it...

By the following year she had joined the Social Democratic Federation and the Independent Labour Party .

EP and some female members of the Independent Labour Party formed the Women's Social and Political Union , with the slogan Votes for Women!