Keir Hardie

When the Women's Enfranchisement Bill was put forward, parliament defeated it on 12 May 1905. The Labour Party narrowly affirmed a resolution for women's suffrage as part of its platform in 1906, beginning a series...

Two days before Britain declared war on Germany, GE attended a peaceful protest in Trafalgar Square, at which socialists Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman , and Scottish nationalist R. B. Cunninghame Graham ...

AWE and her brother John Strachey , future politician and author, joined the Independent Labour Party (which was founded by Keir Hardie in 1893, gave birth to the Labour Party , and disaffiliated from it...

Her subject, Mary Reid MacArthur , 1880-1921 (wife of the trade unionist Will Anderson , who died only two years before her), had done sterling work in the campaigns to end sweated labour and to...

In an unpublished story written in 1932, SP fictionalises a love triangle between herself, her mother, and Keir Hardie , harking back to life events of 1904. Biographer Barbara Winslow argues that the depiction of...

The other contributors to this important collection were Shaw himself (again pseudonymous) and Mabel Atkinson , Florence Balgarnie , Eva Gore-Booth , Robert F. Cholmeley , Charlotte Despard , Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Keir Hardie

The autobiography almost exclusively focuses on her involvement in the militant suffrage movement and on the movement itself. She often reports external events with scant attention to her own part in them. She does begin...

This work, dealing with the earlier phases of the struggle, acknowledges the split among the Pankhursts, and confirms that SP felt uneasy about the WSPU leadership as early as 1911. It is a personal book...