Independent Labour Party

In March 1912 when Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence were arrested, ES became, almost at a moment's notice, acting editor (officially assistant editor) of Votes for Women, the official organ of the WSPU . She...

With her husband, John Bruce Glasier , KBG published The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects, a sixteen-page pamphlet issued at Manchester and Glasgow by the presses of the Independent Labour Party .

KBG 's pamphlet Socialism for Children appeared, published by the Independent Labour Party . It was her first publication under her married name.

Mary Agnes Hamilton 's biography The Man of To-morrow: J. Ramsay MacDonald appeared from L. Parsons as by Iconoclast; it was re-issued the same year by the Independent Labour Party .

KBG 's Socialism for Beginners, a pamphlet, was published by the Independent Labour Party .

KBG published a collection of short stories, Tales from the Derbyshire Hills: Pastorals from the Peak District; she donated its royalties to the Independent Labour Party 's National Campaign Fund.

KBG undertook the editorship of The Labour Leader, the vessel of the Independent Labour Party , bringing circulation numbers to a peak of 62,000.

Katharine Bruce Glasier was a socialist-feminist writer and activist at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advances her ideas for social reform. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels all in...

Isabella Ormston Ford was a dedicated labour activist, suffragette, and anti-war advocate at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advocates her socialist-feminist ideals. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels, all...

IOF was elected to the National Administrative Council of the Independent Labour Party , a position she held for four years, until April 1907.

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.

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

The Independent Labour Party tried unsuccessfully to expel EM because of her un-Marxist pacifism.

When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series...

Shortly thereafter, she was one of fifteen elected to the Independent Labour Party 's first National Administrative Council (NAC). She was again the only woman elected to this position. Although she remained for only one...