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		<title>Mo Mowlam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on the left-wing political blog Labourlist, under the title: &#8220;Get on and do it&#8221;. It’s tricky to write a portrait of Mo Mowlam (1949-2005) in a few hundred words, when so many millions of people feel they knew her personally. Indeed, it is this quality which lingers after wordy tributes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edith Summerskill</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2011/01/31/edith-summerskill-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on the left-wing blog Labourlist, under the title: &#8220;What have you done for the feminist movement?&#8221; In her wonderful biography of Jennie Lee, Patricia Hollis recounts an anecdote that neatly captures the character of Dr Edith Summerskill (1901-1980), one of Labour’s longest-serving female MPs. The young journalist Melanie Phillips went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Ayrton Gould</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published on the website Labourlist under the title: &#8220;For what we have done and for what we have failed to do&#8221;. Barbara Ayrton Gould (1886-1950) may seem an unusual choice of Labour woman to profile. I’ve chosen her for two reasons. First, her early life was full of drama and spanned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Lawrence</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2011/01/31/susan-lawrence-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published on the left-wing blog Labourlist, under the title: &#8220;The monocled maverick&#8221;. In the Poplar area of London, a school now sits on land which was scarred by several large bombs during the Second World War. It was the first building to be reconstructed as part of the &#8216;Live Architecture&#8217; exhibition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mary MacArthur</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2011/01/31/mary-macarthur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on the left-wing political blog Labourlist under the title: &#8220;The unstoppable power of organisation&#8221;. In the history of the Labour movement, there are shining stars and hard grafters. Mary MacArthur (1880-1921) was both. By the time of her premature death, she had organised more than 300,000 women into the trade union [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatrice Webb</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2011/01/31/beatrice-webb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on the left-wing political blog Labourlist under the title: &#8220;First among equals&#8221;. It’s a tough gig to summarise the contribution of Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) to the Labour movement in a few words. A list of her accomplishments – some achieved alone, most achieved in partnership with her husband, Sidney – are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennie Lee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published on the left-wing blog Labourlist under the title: &#8220;The Labour Party or nothing&#8221;. In the mythology of the Labour Party, Nye Bevan is often quoted as having exhorted those at risk of losing the faith: ‘I tell you, it is the Labour Party or nothing.’ But those words were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ellen Wilkinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared on the left-wing blog Labourlist, under the title &#8221;Forging a new path&#8221;. ELLEN WILKINSON: FORGING A NEW PATH &#8220;The poverty of the poor is not an accident, a temporary difficulty, a personal fault. It is the permanent state in which the vast majority of the citizens of any capitalist country have to live.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equality must be at the heart of London Councils&#8217; decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[London Councils, the organisation which runs a range of pan-London services, has been urged to put equality at the heart of its agenda as budgetary cuts bring numerous services under scrutiny. The following extract from Eaves&#8217; Women&#8217;s Weekly News Bulletin sets out their position: f If London Councils wants to show that it’s committed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katharine Bruce Glasier</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/09/22/katharine-bruce-glasier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Socialist politician and leading figure in the early Labour movement. Katharine was born on 25 September 1867 in Stoke Newington, London, the second of seven children. Her parents, who held radical and progressive political views, ensured that she received an education equal in quality to that of her brothers. When Katharine was young, the family moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Castle</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/barbara-castle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Castle is a figure who looms so large in the history of the Labour Party that it is difficult to do justice to her work in a short biography. She was born Barbara Betts in 1910, the youngest of the three children of Frank (a tax inspector) and Annie (a milliner). The family moved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbara Gould</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/barbara-gould/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Militant sufragette and campaigner who fought for decades to secure a parliamentary seat. Barbara Gould (Barbara Ayrton) was born into a prominent science family in 1886. Her father was a prominent engineer and physicist. Most unusually her mother, Hertha Marks Ayrton, was a professional physicist in her own right and an extraordinary woman. Hertha was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jennie Adamson</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/jennie-adamson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trade union activist who shone during the General Strike. Jennie Adamson (Jennie Johnston) was born in 1882 into the family of a railway porter, Thomas Johnston, who died when Jennie was six. Jennie was one of six children in the family. As a result Jennie’s mother, Elizabeth, became a dress-maker in order to support her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Lawrence</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/susan-lawrence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upper-middle class MP whose politics underwent radical transformation. Susan Lawrence was born in London in 1871, into a prosperous legal family. Her father was a prominent solicitor and her mother the daughter of a judge. Having been educated at home, Susan entered Newnham College, Cambridge in 1895, one of the very few women to receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caroline Ganley</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/caroline-ganley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pioneering politician deeply associated with the Co-operative Movement. Caroline Selina Ganley was born in Plymouth in 1879 into a working-class family. She became active in politics at a young age, her enthusiasm having been sparked by her opposition to the Boer War. Caroline did not join the nascent Labour movement (the Labour Party, or &#8216;Labour Representation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bessie Braddock</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/bessie-braddock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unusual MP famed for startling the Government into action. Bessie Braddock (Bessie Bamber) was born in Liverpool in 1899. Her mother, Mary Bamber, was a left-wing political activist committed to social reform and Bessie followed in her mother&#8217;s footsteps. After becoming disillusioned with the Communist Party, she joined the Labour Party in 1926. Her husband John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jan Wilson</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/23/jan-wilson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheffield City Council leader whose determination ensured the completion of important regeneration projects. Jan Wilson was born in Sheffield in 1944 and she lived in the city all her life. Jan left school at 16 and worked in the local steel industry from 1960 until 1972. In 1975. She then became a volunteer with the Citizens Advice Bureau, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edith Summerskill</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/04/edith-summerskill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Edith Summerskill was a member of the Privy Council, a physician, feminist and respected writer. Edith&#8217;s father had also been a doctor, and as a child she had accompanied him on home visits during which he had told her about the connections between poverty and ill-health. These experiences seem to have inspired Edith to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dorothy Jewson</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/08/04/dorothy-jewson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dorothy Jewson (on the left, with scarf) was a trade union organiser and one of the first female Labour Party MPs. She was born in 1884 and died in 1964. Dorothy had a comfortable upbringing, as her father was a coal merchant. She was well-educated and studied at Girton College, Cambridge before becoming a teacher. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dianne Hayter</title>
		<link>http://www.sheblogs.co.uk/2010/07/19/dianne-hayter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour Party activist and historian whose administrative skills have helped to steer the Labour Party through difficult times.]]></description>
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