Berry, Paul, and Mark Bostridge. Vera Brittain: A Life. Chatto and Windus, 1995.
243, 581, 510
Shirley Williams
Standard Name: Williams, Shirley
Used Form: Shirley Vivian Catlin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Oakley | AO
was heavily influenced by her father, Richard Morris Titmuss
, who, without a university education himself, became first an insurance clerk, and then a noted academic and social critic, one of the founders of... |
| Literary responses | Mary Stott | For her obituary, The Guardian first called her legendary and then printed recollections by seven people who had known her well: editors Peter Preston
, Linda Christmas
, Suzanne Lowry
, and Libby Brooks
... |
| politics | Mary Stott | She scorned much of the debate as waffle but admired the clear, warm voice and the lucid, rational analysis offered by Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
). Sitting with other, mostly young women in... |
| Publishing | Vera Brittain | In 2005 this was reprinted with VB
's Seed of Chaos, 1944, as a single volume under the title One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War, with a foreword by Brittain's... |
| Textual Production | Mary Stott | Growing up the daughter of journalist parents, Mary Waddington (later MS
) was a journalist in her play as a small child. She told her dolls, I have some copy to write now. qtd. in 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. |
Timeline
30 June 1970: Margaret Thatcher, soon after taking office...
Building item
30 June 1970
Margaret Thatcher
, soon after taking office as Minister of Education (Conservative), gave Local Education Authorities
freedom to halt or reverse progress towards comprehensive schools.
Simon, Brian. The State and Educational Change: Essays in the History of Education and Pedagogy. Lawrence and Wishart, 1994.
171
By September 1976: South Asian women (called by the media strikers...
Building item
By September 1976
South Asian women (called by the media strikers in saris) went on strike at Grunwick Film Processing
plant in Willesden, North London.
Exhibitions and Events, The Women’s Library, Autumn and Winter 2009/10. The Women’s Library, 2009.
Beckett, Andy. “Vuvuzelas Unite”. London Review of Books, Vol.
37
, No. 20, 22 Oct. 2015, pp. 25-8. 25
Pedersen, Susan. “You’re only interested in Hitler, not me”. London Review of Books, Vol.
35
, No. 24, 19 Dec. 2013, pp. 16-18. 17
March 1981: Breakaway Labour members of parliament—Roy...
National or international item
March 1981
Breakaway Labour
members of parliament—Roy Jenkins
, Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
), David Owen
, and William Rodgers
—left the party to found the Social Democratic Party, or SDP
.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
572n59
Marquand, David. “Roy Jenkins”. Guardian Weekly, 9–15 Jan. 2003, p. 19.
19
November 1981: Shirley Williams (daughter of Vera Brittain)...
Women writers item
November 1981
Shirley Williams
(daughter of Vera Brittain
) became the first member of the Gang of Four, leaders of the newly-founded Social Democratic Party
, to win a seat in Parliament
: for Crosby, Lancashire.
Brakeman, Lynne, and Susan Gall, editors. Chronology of Women Worldwide: People, Places and Events that Shaped Women’s History. Gale Research, 1997.
363
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
“Baroness Williams of Crosby (Shirley Williams)”. Liberal Democrats: People.
Texts
Preston, Peter et al. “Portrait: Woman of Substance”. The Guardian, p. 6.
Brittain, Vera, and Shirley Williams. Testament of Youth. Virago, 1978.