Light, Alison. “Harnessed to a Shark”. London Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2002, pp. 29-31.
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Ernest Bevin
Standard Name: Bevin, Ernest
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| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons
debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that... |
Timeline
1 October 1935: At the Labour Party's annual conference Ernest...
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1 October 1935
At the Labour Party
's annual conference Ernest Bevin
made a dramatic attack on the pacifist views of the leader, George Lansbury
, who thereupon resigned.
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
4: 345
1940: Ernest Bevin and Basil Dean established the...
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1940
Ernest Bevin
and Basil Dean
established the Entertainments National Service Association
(generally known as ENSA) to boost the morale of factory workers, allied servicemen, and civilians in underground air-raid shelters.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
37
Turner, Ernest Sackville. The Phony War on the Home Front. Michael Joseph, 1961.
101
Ziegler, Philip. London at War. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
49
November 1940-January 1941: The Registration for Employment Order authorized...
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November 1940-January 1941
The Registration for Employment Order authorized Ernest Bevin
, Minister of Labour, to require women aged between twenty and thirty-one to register at the Labour Exchange
for war work.
Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.
213
1941: Ernest Bevin began his Calling all Women...
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1941
Ernest Bevin
began his Calling all Women campaign, urging women to join the Bevin Beauties.
Minns, Raynes. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45. Virago, 1980.
13
Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
271, 277
March 1941: The Women's Consultative Committee was established...
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March 1941
The Women's Consultative Committee
was established to advise Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin
on matters of policy affecting women.
Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.
293
Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars. Pandora, 1987.
158-60
26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...
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26 July 1945
The postwar general election put the Labour Party
in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee
became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison
, Ernest Bevin
, Hugh Dalton
, and Sir...
15 January 1948: The Anglo-Iraqi treaty signed at Portsmouth...
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15 January 1948
The Anglo-Iraqi treaty signed at Portsmouth was described by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin
as regularizing and expressing friendship between this country and the Arabic world.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 January 1948): 4
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