Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
About Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Cicely Wilkinsonwas a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her career, as the Member of Parliamentfor Jarrow, she became a national figure when she played a prominent role in the 1936 Jarrow March of the town’s unemployed to London to petition for the right to work.
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Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.
British Labour Party politician (1891-1947)
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
British Labour Party politician (1891-1947)
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
British Labour Party politician (1891-1947)
My mother’s illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
British Labour Party politician (1891-1947)
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
British Labour Party politician (1891-1947)