Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
78
James Ramsay MacDonald
Standard Name: MacDonald, James Ramsay
Used Form: J. Ramsey MacDonald
Used Form: Ramsay MacDonald
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Sharp | They declined Ramsay MacDonald
's offer to be best man, not wanting the publicity. They were now constant companions, having belonged long ago to the same walking club and to the United Suffragists
, and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Margaret Sackville | The friendship between the widowed James Ramsay MacDonald
, Labour politician, and LMS
began in 1912 and proved important and long-lasting. She was said to have declined a proposal of marriage from him. The writer... |
| Friends, Associates | Emma Frances Brooke | EFB
's involvement with the socialist and feminist movements of the day brought her into close contact with several notable activists and revolutionaries. Through the Fabian Society
, she interacted with Beatrice
and Sidney Webb |
| Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | Besides the Ford sisters, other members of the UDC included founding member James Ramsay MacDonald
, executive committee member Helena Swanwick
, and Vernon Lee
, who was a good friend of IOF
's sister... |
| Friends, Associates | Alison Uttley | AU
's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn
, later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher
), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley
. In London she became a... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Evelyn Sharp | She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
, of Hertha Ayrton
, physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould
. These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking... |
| Friends, Associates | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell
and Ramsay MacDonald
(though GHS
felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and... |
| Friends, Associates | L. M. Montgomery | Baldwin declared himself a huge fan at festivities in Toronto that included the Prince of Wales
and Prince George
. A later British prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald
, claimed that he had read all of... |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Margaret Sackville | LMS
became, according to Mary Agnes Hamilton
, one of those [e]verybody who was anybody in the anti-war movement, who gathered around Lady Ottoline Morrell
. |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Christina Stead | By chance House of All Nations (which has been called a mammoth study of the world of international finance) Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Occupation | John Buchan | During the decade that began with a by-election in 1927, JB
was a Member of Parliament: one of three who sat for a constituency composed of graduates of some of the Scottish universities. (English universities... |
| politics | Eva Gore-Booth | The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage
) after backing Labour
candidate David Shackleton
in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB
... |
| politics | Mary Agnes Hamilton | She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it... |
| politics | Alison Uttley | By the 1930s AU
's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald
's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of... |
Timeline
27-28 February 1900: The Trades Union Congress Conference met...
National or international item
27-28 February 1900
The Trades Union Congress Conference met at Memorial Hall, Faringdon, Berkshire, to decide on ways of improving labour representation in Parliament.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
428, 809-11
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1980. Longman, 1983.
23, 87
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
329
1904: J. Ramsay MacDonald published Women in the...
Writing climate item
1904
J. Ramsay MacDonald
published Women in the Printing Trades: A Sociological Study.
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
64-5
Reynolds, Siân. Britannica’s Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian England. Edinburgh University Press, 1989.
64-5
August 1914: The Union of Democratic Control was established...
National or international item
August 1914
The Union of Democratic Control
was established by J. Ramsay MacDonald
, Norman Angell
, Charles Trevelyan
, and E. D. Morel
.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
Appendix I
Hinton, James. Protests and Visions: Peace Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain. Hutchinson Radius, 1989, http://U of A HSS.
44
Harvey, Kathryn. "Driven by War into Politics": A Feminist Biography of Kathleen Innes. University of Alberta, 1995.
65-6
The Working Class Movement Library
holds most of...
February 1916: Painter C. R. W. Nevinson scored a great...
Building item
February 1916
Painter C. R. W. Nevinson
scored a great success with his first one-man show, at the Leicester Galleries in London, of paintings expressive of the dehumanised violence of modern warfare.
Laity, Paul. “Diary”. London Review of Books, 3 Feb. 2000, pp. 40-1.
40-1
After February 1917: Supporters of the Russian Revolution including...
Writing climate item
After February 1917
Supporters of the Russian Revolution including Evelyn Sharp
founded the 1917 Club
to provide a venue for freely discussing the revolution without fear of attracting attention under the Defence of the Realm Act or Dora.
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
231
26 December 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson (who had already...
National or international item
26 December 1918
US President Woodrow Wilson
(who had already been in Paris in connection with the peace conference which did not officially convene until 18 January following) was received in London with intense enthusiasm.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
92-4
22 January 1924: After the Labour Party's victory in the general...
National or international item
22 January 1924
After the Labour Party
's victory in the general election, party leader James Ramsay MacDonald
formed a minority government and succeeded to Stanley Baldwin
as Prime Minister.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
364
13 October 1924: The BBC broadcast its first election address:...
National or international item
13 October 1924
The BBC
broadcast its first election address: Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
speaking at a mass meeting in Glasgow.
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
366
4 November 1924: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative) formed the...
National or international item
4 November 1924
Stanley Baldwin
(Conservative
) formed the government in the UK for a second time following the general election of 29 October, succeeding to Labour Party
leader James Ramsay MacDonald
.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
364
6 July 1928: Four days after the Representation of the...
Building item
6 July 1928
Four days after the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act received the royal assent, a celebratory breakfast was held at the Hotel Cecil in London.
“July 6, 1928, Celebrating full women’s suffrage”. Guardian Weekly, 6 July 2007, p. 20.
20
30 May 1929: Labour came in twenty-six votes ahead of...
National or international item
30 May 1929
Labour
came in twenty-six votes ahead of the Conservatives
in the first general election with full women's suffrage: the prospect of voting by women under thirty brought the demeaning nickname of the Flapper Election....
5 June 1929: James Ramsay MacDonald, Labour leader, formed...
National or international item
5 June 1929
James Ramsay MacDonald
, Labour
leader, formed a minority government in the UK for the second time, following the first general election with full women's suffrage.
Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.
115
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
491
7 June 1929: Margaret Bondfield became the first female...
National or international item
7 June 1929
Margaret Bondfield
became the first female cabinet minister in Britain, serving as Minister of Labour in Ramsay MacDonald
's Labour
government.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
28
United Kingdom Parliament. http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/.
Late July 1931: In Britain the confusingly-named May committee...
National or international item
Late July 1931
In Britain the confusingly-named May committee responded to escalation both in the international financial crisis and mass unemployment at home, by advising draconian cuts in government expenditure.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Ramsay Macdonald
26 August 1931: The Labour Party leader James Ramsay MacDonald...
National or international item
26 August 1931
The Labour Party
leader James Ramsay MacDonald
organized a National Coalition government; many members of his party felt this to be a betrayal.
Young, Toby. “What U.S. needs is a Queen”. Edmonton Journal, 1 Dec. 2000, p. A17.
A17
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
981
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape, 1944.
124-5, 172
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