Labour Party

JK 's father, Francis Aungier Pakenham, was an Oxford academic teaching political science when his daughter Judith was born. He was already a maverick: he commanded the Oxford Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard)...

Her mother, Olive (Farthing) Stalker , came from a coal-mining district in south Yorkshire. She won a scholarship to a grammar school (from which she emerged speaking more correct English than her own mother)

The political theorist Harold Laski was ML 's uncle. Laski, a professor at the London School of Economics, was the best-known socialist intellectual of his era. His books on the Second World War, the...

MD 's father, barrister John Frederick Drabble , also attended Cambridge , and served in the RAF during the second world war. In 1945, newly demobbed, he stood as Labour candidate for the Tory seat...

Two months after her mother's death, Bellerby's husband gave up his academic post and retired to live in a village near Cambridge. He joined the Oxford Group (later known as Moral Rearmament ), became a...

By this time she was in full revolt against the cultural expectations of her mother and indeed her class, and her behaviour in India was so wild and flirtatious that she was sent home in...

After they moved to Mill Hill, the Boxes became good friends of the Labour politicians Aneurin Bevan and Jennie Lee , through the fact that the two husbands shared the same physiotherapist. They were...

In an atmosphere of social, political, and artistic upheaval, art and politics merged in the public mind, and Bloomsbury was perceived as politically and aesthetically revolutionary. Stansky quotes a critic writing in the Daily Herald...

AU 's friends from university years included GL (Gwladys Llewellyn , later a teacher) and LM (Lily Meagher ), who both remained unmarried. Another was Gertrude Uttley . In London she became a...

BW formed the Half-Circle Club for wives of Labour MPs.

Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...

Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...

This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.

The novel records the social and political changes taking place in Hampstead in the 1960s, including the new Labour government, council housing, and increased interaction between people of different classes and racial backgrounds.

AT 's next novel, Peace Breaks Out, 1946, continues her investigation into the new Britain. The election which brought Labour to power (on 26 July 1945) is fought out in Barsetshire between the...