When she ceased being a journalist, in 1923, she volunteered to her services to Eglantyne Jebb
, joint-founder with her sister Dorothy Buxton
of the Save the Children Fund
, as an honorary organizer. She...
politics
Katharine Bruce Glasier
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...
politics
Mary Agnes Hamilton
During her university years Mary Agnes Adamson (later MAH
) belonged to a group at Newnham which called itself Things that Matter
, which debated every kind of social, moral and political theory. The group...
politics
Mary Agnes Hamilton
The premier society, bigger and less intimate, with academics as well as students among its membership, was called Political, and was run on parliamentary lines, with groups named after the national political parties...
Timeline
May 1919: The charity Save the Children was publicly...
Building item
May 1919
The charity Save the Children
was publicly launched at the Albert Hall in London, largely through the efforts of the sisters Dorothy Buxton
and Eglantyne Jebb
, to alleviate suffering caused in Europe by...
