Labour Party

The establishment of the League, which was the first attempt to form a separate organization for women within the Labour Party , was met with mixed feelings by IOF , who always believed that men's...

GG joined the British Communist Party on a whim for a period of about a month in 1925, probably paying dues of a shilling or so for his brief membership. This was an aberration, since...

NJ , formerly an ardent socialist, blamed the decline of deference in postwar Britain not on social change but on the Labour government. She adopted, in other words, the Tory attitudes of her immediate forebears.

AR was (like her parents before her) a member of the Fabian Society ; papers on her Fabian work are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of...

IOF was most at home in the NUWSS because of her deep-rooted beliefs in constitutionalism and non-violence. Although she could not bring herself to adopt militant methods, as an executive committee member she worked to...

AS largely avoids intervening with her authorial presence in her writing, and argues that there is no clear point of intersection between her work and her allegiances or identities, national, sexual, and so on.

IM once said that she was a Communist from the age of thirteen; it was a natural allegiance in the thirties for anyone growing up in an idealistic and civic-minded milieu. Her early political thinking...

During the late 1950s and early 1960s MB became involved with several political causes. She joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and was arrested and roughed up by the police on a demonstration of...

After returning to the executive committee of the NUWSS in 1912, IOF spoke in favour of a resolution which pledged the union to support Labour candidates in most constituencies, unless an old friend of the...

When a revised constitution allowed individuals to join the Labour Party directly, instead of via one of its affiliated organisations, MAH got to know and appreciate the Trade Union side of the party.

Jameson described the 1933 Labour Conference at Hastings as haunted by the ghost of German Social Democracy, in the shape usually of a young doctor or lawyer, with a pale intelligent face, and no money...

GBS was a prominent intellectual, social critic, and public speaker. From the mid-1880s he was a dominant force in the socialist Fabian Society , a champion of the Labour Party , and a vocal supporter...

Also in December 1929, ER introduced an amendment to a Labour motion favouring native paramountcy in colonial territories. Rathbone added the last word to the motion that Native self-government should be fostered; and franchise...

In cold weather leading up to the election of 6 December 1923, IOF campaigned on behalf of her old friend Philip Snowden , who was running as a candidate for the Labour Party . The...

One result of the war was to reveal more clearly, to the Webbs as to others, just how unequal was British society. They became ready to advocate such equalizing measures as higher taxation for the...