Joseph Chamberlain

Marie Souvestre was a free-thinking feminist, daughter of the French author and philosopher Emile Souvestre . Her school, Les Ruches, was widely admired for its academic rigour. It educated many outstanding women, including Beatrice Chamberlain

Beatrice Potter (later BW ) met and became strongly attracted by radical leader (later Tory imperialist) Joseph Chamberlain .

Joseph Chamberlain and Winston Churchill were among the many visitors who were received at Abinger by the Lugards.

As a schoolgirl GBS had a brief spell of interest in politics, when she admired Joseph Chamberlain , wanted to get into parliament, and supported tariff reform. In 1933 she was actually sounded out about...

MK threw herself into attempting to persuade the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain , to discontinue the tax. A revolt ensued, which was soon suppressed by Britain, but not before several British officers, missionaries, and traders...

The subtitle defines the period covered as from earliest times to the close of the year 1885. That is, the book takes in the rejection in April 1885 of Joseph Chamberlain 's moderate plan for...

As the Jameson Raid unfolded in the Transvaal, FS stationed herself at the Colonial Office in London, where she diplomatically mediated communications between the colonial secretary, Joseph Chamberlain , and the dictatorial Rhodes, whose telegrams...

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...