Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press, 1991.
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Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
By 1930, Kingsley Martin
, editor of New Statesman and Nation, noted that Time and Tide was one of the leading British weeklies. It was read by the leaders of the country, including Prime...
politics
Eleanor Rathbone
Johanna Alberti
calls this speech one of the most impassioned speeches of [ER
's] time as an MP on a question which she thought about day and night.
By November 1941: More than 500,000 Morrison shelters had been...
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By November 1941
More than 500,000 Morrison shelters had been distributed in Britain (mostly free) for indoor protection during air raids: they were called after Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
.
“Air Raid Shelters”. FortuneCity Search, 2002.
July 1944: British Jews appealed to the government on...
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July 1944
British Jews appealed to the government on behalf of Jews in Hungary; Herbert Morrison
told Anthony Eden
that nothing must be done that would result in receiving more refugees.
Guttenplan, D. D. “Visa Requirement”. London Review of Books, 6 July 2000, pp. 28-9.
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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...