The general feeling was that Wells had behaved like a cad. Michael Foot
, biographer of Wells, along with defending his subject, makes the important point that Reeves, a strong and independent character, was not...
Occupation
Maureen Duffy
Before the general election of May 1979, MD
and Brigid Brophy
offered a job at ALCS to Elizabeth Thomas
(advisor to Michael Foot
) in case Labour should lose.
Thomas, Elizabeth, journalist. “25th Anniversary: Elizabeth Thomas remembers Maureen and Brigid”. ALCS News, No. 21, July 2002, p. 6.
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March 1981: Breakaway Labour members of parliament—Roy...
9 June 1983: Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party,...
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9 June 1983
Michael Foot
, leader of the Labour Party
, signally failed in the general election to shake the reign of Tory
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
. He was soon afterwards replaced as party leader by...
Texts
Thompson, William et al. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women. Thoemmes, 1994.
Foot, Michael, b. 1913. H. G.: The History of Mr. Wells. Counterpoint, 1995.
Thompson, William, and Anna Wheeler. “Introduction”. Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, edited by Michael, b. 1913 Foot and Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994.