Bertrand Russell

The Council for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons (forerunner of CND) was founded. DR was present at its inaugural meeting next day; other prominent members were Vera Brittain , Julian Huxley , J. B. Priestley

Though ML held left-wing political opinions, she described herself as not a good socialist (meaning that she shaped her opinions for herself, not adhering to a party line). She cared more for the generally humanist...

On 10 May Germany had invaded Holland and Belgium. In the event of an invasion of England, they could indeed expect a terrible personal fate, on account of their anti-war politics, Leonard's anti-war career and...

The Congress, held from 28 April to 1 May, attracted 1,200 women from twelve countries, both warring and neutral, to discuss means of achieving peace. Others meeting with the delegates on the subsequent peace tour...

She also carefully considered the future of her relationship with Bertrand Russell . She observes in her memoir: I had no anxiety about allying myself with his political views or way of life. I was...

Some detail about the Union of Democratic Control is in order here because her membership of its General Council is at odds with the accepted image of LMS , and suggests that a side of...

It featured such speakers as Vera Brittain , Ethel Mannin , Naomi Mitchison , Marie Stopes , Desmond MacCarthy , Bertrand Russell , and G. B. Shaw . Papers given included DR 's Marriage and...

LOM is best known as an early twentieth-century literary hostess who appears frequently in the memoirs, biographies, and fictions written by her guests. She aspired to be a writer herself, and she produced journals, letters...

VL 's political stance was seen as dangerously unpatriotic: only a few of her essays were published by the Labour Leader, Nation, and New Statesman. In letter to Havelock Ellis in September...

Bertrand Russell (after writing to MS to let her know he was doing so) reviewed it for the Nation with what biographer Suzanne Raitt calls acclaim.MS had argued against Russell's ideas in...

Until a fire destroyed it in December 1951, the Williams-Ellises lived mainly at his family home, Plâs Brondanw in Portmeirion, North Wales, the village which Clough was recreating in the Italianate style. Guests at...

Francis's brother, Bertrand Russell , lived with them for a short while before he was imprisoned for engaging in pacifist journalism.

She played with the epistolary form at several points throughout her writing career. She employed the form in Christine (1917), as well as in several unpublished experiments. For these experiments she recruited male writers such...

This book also addresses the importance of literacy throughout the world. It likens illiteracy to slavery: where slavery was criminal traffic in bodies, illiteracy is a traffic in the minds of men.MC

This small volume was issued by Kegan Paul and E. P. Dutton 's Today and Tomorrow Series; other authors to publish here included Rebecca West , Bertrand Russell , and J. B. S. Haldane ...