Labour Party

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...

During the 1930s PHJ was involved with left-wing politics. She was, she said, awakened to the reality of Nazism in 1934, by a Time magazine photograph of a girl in a concentration camp. She...

ES joined the Labour Party shortly after women won the vote.

By 1936, the Committee advocated state-sponsored lunch programmes in schools, along with the provision of milk for pregnant women and for children under school age. ER was joined in these efforts by the Fabian Barbara Drake

UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party and the rise of the Labour Party : Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and...

ER was even-handed in her actions. During the same year she outspokenly criticised Labour idol Aneurin Bevan for what she regarded as a childish display of machismo in irrelevant point-scoring against Churchill . She accused...

In December 1978 AF voted Conservative, knowing little about Margaret Thatcher but excited by the idea of a woman becoming Prime Minister for the first time. She later regretted it. In the 1980s she and...

HSW was a member of the British Labour Party . She volunteered as a clerk at her local party office in Marylebone, and participated in May Day demonstrations.

DR ran unsuccessfully for Parliament, seeking to represent the Labour Party for Chelsea.

The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...

HSW was recruited into the British Communist Party while she was still a member of the Labour Party ; she remained a Communist Party member for the rest of her life.

EPL stood as Labour candidate for Manchester's Rusholme division in Britain's general election; she was one of sixteen women defeated in this election (the first in which they were eligible to run).

An important and forceful left-wing intellectual (a shaper both of the Fabian Society and of the Labour Party ), BW wrote at the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century. Her...

MAH published during the first half of the twentieth century, writing to support herself after a disastrous marriage and during a distinguished career in politics and the civil service. Many of her novels provide fictional...