James Ramsay MacDonald

Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington to Chamberlain were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first...

In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...

MAH points out how odd it was that people should see as typically English this man of Scottish labouring origins. A high proportion of successful Englishmen are, in fact, Scots. Not few of them, moreover...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

Again she found herself assistant editor, this time of a political journal which was just changing its image as it changed its name from The Labour Leader. By this time she had become well...

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 ...

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...

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...

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