James Callaghan

Standard Name: Callaghan, James

Connections

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Publishing	Sir J. M. Barrie	A typescript used as a prompt book at New York the following year and now held by the New York Public Library appears to be the earliest known form of the text, which was first...

Timeline

5 April 1976

James Callaghan took on both the Prime Ministership and leadership of the Labour Party following the resignation of Harold Wilson .

Butler, David E., and Jennie Freeman. British Political Facts, 1900-1960. Macmillan, 1963.

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

438, 492

27 January 1979

A one-day strike by 1.5 million British public sector workers ushered in a series of selective strikes which gave rise to the Shakespearean phrase winter of discontent.

Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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4 May 1979

The day after the Conservatives' victory in the general election, Margaret Thatcher (leader of the Conservative party since 1975) became the first woman Prime Minister of Britain; her government succeeded to the Labour administration of...

Texts

Gaffin, Jean et al. “Women and Cooperation”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 113-42.

Middleton, Lucy et al. “Women in Labour Politics”. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience, edited by Lucy Middleton, Croom Helm, 1977, pp. 22-37.

Callaghan, James. Women in the Labour Movement: The British Experience. Editor Middleton, Lucy, Croom Helm, 1977.