G. Richard Mitchison

Naomi Haldane married Dick Mitchison , who was at this date an army officer, later a barrister and later still a Labour MP.

NM and her husband decided to take lovers, in trust and respect for each other and with full commitment to their marriage and their family.

NM kept a diary, written in pencil on a flimsy block of paper, when she travelled with her father-in-law to Le Tréport to be with her soldier husband , who had suffered a dangerous...

NM and her husband joined the Labour party, and she became a committed socialist Labourite.

NM recorded in her diary the experience of the Labour election victory at Kettering in Yorkshire, where her husband was elected.

NM 's well-known contributors included Dick Mitchison , John Pilley , Margaret Cole , and W. H. Auden . The project was born during the run-up to the 1931 election.