Labour Party

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politics Angela Carter
AC 's politics were those of the left, following the Labour convictions of her mother's family. During the 1960s she supported the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and went on several of its Easter marches to...
politics Sylvia Pankhurst
SP turned down an opportunity to stand as Labour candidate for Sheffield because her views now called for a total revolution of democratic procedures, including Parliament.
Mitchell, David J. The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity. MacMillan, 1967.
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Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987.
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politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
She knew most of the leaders of this group, to which she gives several pages in her memoirs. She later came to regard it, however, as a cocoon or cell that kept those inside it...
politics Dora Russell
DR was involved with the Labour Party , the Independent Labour Party (ILP ), and their affiliates for most of her adult life. For instance, she attended the 1924 ILP Summer School , where...
politics Jane Hume Clapperton
She was a member of the International Labour Party (ILP),
Waters, Chris. British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture, 1884-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
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Montefiore, Dora. “Jane Hume Clapperton Speaks”. New Age, 4 May 1905, p. 288.
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and also supported the Anarchist Legitimation League .
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
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Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke, 2002.
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politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
She describes in detail the shock to her thinking caused by the Austro-Serbian conflict in which Russia seemed likely to join and Britain to join in support of Tsarist Russia. Fear rose and blocked thinking...
politics Maude Royden
MR spoke in support of the NUWSS 's Election Fighting Fund policy at the meeting of the NUWSS and the Labour Party at the Royal Albert Hall.
“The Papers of Agnes Maude Royden”. Archives Hub: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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politics Virginia Woolf
VW 's feminist and socialist views went along with firm opposition to the war, and to the militaristic political structures that had produced the war, which is evident in many of her writings. Leonard was...
politics Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH 's allegiance to the mainstream Labour Party , begun during these years, was maintained throughout her life, although she was one of its outspoken internal critics, for instance on issues of unemployment.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
A reviewer...
politics Rose Macaulay
Sufficiently in sympathy with revolution to belong to the 1917 Club , RM was a pacifist between the wars, though she belonged to no particular group. In 1935 she voted for a (female) Labour Party
politics Maude Royden
Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party ; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party 's recent concern for it caused the society to change...
politics Katharine Bruce Glasier
Her opportunities for public speaking soon exploded. She was a Bristol delegate to the first annual conference of the Fabian Society in February this year; in June she was electioneering on behalf of Ben Tillett
politics Virginia Woolf
But Woolf recorded in her diary in May 1940: Thinking is my fighting.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Her thinking manifested itself in various ways. She was involved to varying degrees with a number of leftist associations: the Labour Party
politics Charlotte Despard
CD stood as a pacifist Labour candidate on 14 December 1918, for the constituency she knew best, in Battersea, in the first British election in which women were entitled to do so, and was...
politics Katharine Bruce Glasier
Meanwhile, KBG returned to her socialist activism in 1924 after she had recovered from her breakdown. She began a lecture tour on 4 June that year, addressing socialist gatherings, and worked at selling her husband's...

Timeline

1 July 1999: The devolved Scottish parliament held its...

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1 July 1999

The devolved Scottish parliament held its opening ceremony. Devolution for Scotland (a transfer of some governmental powers from Westminster to Edinburgh) had been an election promise of the British Labour Party in 1997.
Brown, Jenny. “Keep the Anarchy”. The Author, Vol.
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“British Politics”. History Learning Site.
Devolution and Scotland

4 May 2000: In the first election for the newly created...

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4 May 2000

In the first election for the newly created position of Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone was elected (standing as an Independent after being de-selected by the Labour Party ).

7 June 2001: In the general election the Labour Party...

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7 June 2001

In the general election the Labour Party under Tony Blair lost only a tiny fraction of its huge majority.
Schott, Ben. Schott’s Original Miscellany. Bloomsbury, 2002.
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May 2003: Valerie Amos became Britain's first black...

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May 2003

Valerie Amos became Britain's first black woman Cabinet minister, following the resignation from Tony Blair 's Labour Cabinet of Clare Short .
White, Michael. “It’s time for Tony Blair to go”. Guardian Weekly, 15–21 May 2003, p. 1.
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5 May 2005: A British general election returned the Labour...

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5 May 2005

A British general election returned the Labour Party under Tony Blair to power with a majority reduced since 2001 but still substantial.
“Blair secures historic third term”. BBC News, 6 May 2005.

3 May 2007: In elections to the Scottish parliament,...

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3 May 2007

In elections to the Scottish parliament, a chaotic poll featuring large numbers of lost and disqualified votes revealed, several days later, that the Scottish Nationalist Party held a one-seat lead over Labour .
Carrell, Severin, and Michael White. “SNP claim victory, though power may yet elude them”. Guardian Unlimited, 5 May 2007.

6-11 May 2010: A British general election returned inconclusive...

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6-11 May 2010

A British general election returned inconclusive results and led to days of negotiations among party leaders attempting to form a viable government.
Cochrane, Kira. “Election results for women to celebrate – and worry about”. The Guardian, 8 May 2010, p. 19.
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16 June 2016: Jo Cox, a Labour member of parliament and...

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16 June 2016

Jo Cox , a Labour member of parliament and a young mother, was attacked in the street in Birstall (part of her constituency). She was shot and stabbed repeatedly: a hate crime perpetrated by a...

23 June 2016: By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the...

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23 June 2016

By a narrow margin (about 52% to 48%) the British electorate voted for Brexit: that is, to take Britain out of the European Union .
“EU referendum: full results and analysis”. theguardian.com, 24 June 2016.

8 June 2017: In a general election called by Britain's...

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8 June 2017

In a general election called by Britain's second-ever female Prime Minister, Theresa May , her Conservative government was returned with a significantly reduced majority, weakening instead of strengthening its hand for the imminent negotiations over...

14 June 2017: A fire started at a little after midnight...

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14 June 2017

A fire started at a little after midnight in the kitchen of a flat on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, a 23-storey building that was home to about 350...

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