Philip Snowden

Through her work with Trade Unions, IOF became a long-standing friend of Ben Turner , leader of the Textile Workers' Union . She was also connected to politician Philip Snowden .

MAH knew and worked closely with the Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald , though her early intense admiration for him diminished with time. Up to the year after publishing her book on him (which was also...

During her husband 's illness, between autumn 1916 and April 1921, KBG took over the editorship of The Labour Leader, the prime propaganda vessel of the Independent Labour Party . In this time she...

In cold weather leading up to the election of 6 December 1923, IOF campaigned on behalf of her old friend Philip Snowden , who was running as a candidate for the Labour Party . The...

KBG worked closely with Philip Snowden , the supervising editor, who was largely responsible for the political direction of the paper. They worked together well until August 1920, when they strongly disagreed over the...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...