James Ramsay MacDonald

Fifteen women were elected to this parliament. AR knew she had no chance of election: it was a hopeless seat for her to contest. (Her husband had stood unsuccessfully in a different constituency in 1924.)...

Britain, she said, must see that women are able to take their share in promoting and shaping their own destinies in the future government of India. She also lobbied Ramsay MacDonald , Wedgwood Benn

The women formed this committee (a break-away group from the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage ) after backing Labour candidate David Shackleton in a by-election. In exchange for the support of EGB ...

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...

By the 1930s AU 's politics had become fervently patriotric: she was a firm supporter of Ramsay MacDonald 's National Coalition Government, elected on 26 August 1931. Over the next few years her dread of...

This novel is again divided not into chapters but into scenes. It is prefaced by a page headed Credo, with quotations from its characters, including Jules Bertillon's No one ever had enough money and...

MAH points out how odd it was that people should see as typically English this man of Scottish labouring origins. A high proportion of successful Englishmen are, in fact, Scots. Not few of them, moreover...

Mary Agnes Hamilton 's biography The Man of To-morrow: J. Ramsay MacDonald appeared from L. Parsons as by Iconoclast; it was re-issued the same year by the Independent Labour Party .

Again she found herself assistant editor, this time of a political journal which was just changing its image as it changed its name from The Labour Leader. By this time she had become well...

In 1935, when she gathered a small group of Labour friends to discuss her project, she found that they gravitated inevitably to the topic of Henderson's relations with Ramsay MacDonald . Two years later she...

Her research uncovered the fact that fifteen out of twenty-four prime ministers from Wellington to Chamberlain were orphans or illegitimate—even though the 1921 census, soon after the steep rise in mortality brought by the first...

Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...