Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
Standard Name: Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens
Used Form: H. A. L. Fisher
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | This friendship led to others for DW
, for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil
, Sir William Rothenstein
, Rex Whistler
, H. A. L. Fisher |
Literary responses | Ray Strachey | The historian H. A. L. Fisher
, reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, devoted most of his space to the Stracheys' material rather than their treatment, but closed the piece with warm praise for... |
politics | Dorothy Wellesley | Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter
, Stafford Cripps
, archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans
, historian H. A. L. Fisher
, scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley
, sculptor Laura Knight
, writers Edith Lyttelton
and J. B. Priestley |
Timeline
8 August 1918: Fisher's Education Act passed: among other...
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8 August 1918
Fisher
's Education Act passed: among other reforms it modified the system of grants, abolished fees for elementary schools, and empowered Local Education Authorities
to raise the upper age limit of compulsory education to fifteen...
1935: The Council of Action for Peace and Reconstruction...
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1935
The Council of Action for Peace and Reconstruction
was founded; its leaders included economist H. A. L. Fisher
, politician David Lloyd George
, and activists Elizabeth Cadbury
and Eleanor Rathbone
.
Texts
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