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Margaret Grace Bondfield CH PC (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal education. After serving an apprenticeship to an embroidress she worked as a shop assistant in Brighton and London. She was shocked by the working conditions of shop staff, particularly within the "living-in" system, and became an active member of the shopworkers' union. She began to move in socialist circles, and in 1898 was appointed assistant secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks (NAUSAWC). She was later prominent in several women's socialist movements: she helped to found the Women's Labour League (WLL) in 1906, and was chair of the Adult Suffrage Society. Her standpoint on women's suffrage—she favoured extending the vote to all adults regardless of gender or property, rather than the limited "on the same terms as men" agenda pursued by the militant suffragists—divided her from the militant leadership.
After leaving her union post in 1908 Bondfield worked as organising secretary for the WLL and later as women's officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW). She was elected to the TUC Council in 1918, and became its chairman in 1923, the year she was first elected to parliament. In the short-lived minority Labour government of 1924 she served as parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Labour. Her term of cabinet office in 1929–31 was marked by the economic crises that beset the second Labour government. Her willingness to contemplate cuts in unemployment benefits alienated her from much of the Labour movement, although she did not follow Ramsay MacDonald into the National Government that assumed office when the Labour government fell in August 1931. Bondfield remained active in NUGMW affairs until 1938, and during the Second World War carried out investigations for the Women's Group on Public Welfare.
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Margaret Grace Bondfield CH PC (17 March 1873 – 16 June 1953) was a British Labour politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929–31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).<p>
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Bondfield was born in humble circumstances and received limited formal education. After serving an apprenticeship to an embroidress she worked as a shop assistant in Brighton and London. She was shocked by the working conditions of shop staff, particularly within the "living-in" system, and became an active member of the shopworkers' union. She began to move in socialist circles, and in 1898 was appointed assistant secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks (NAUSAWC). She was later prominent in several women's socialist movements: she helped to found the Women's Labour League (WLL) in 1906, and was chair of the Adult Suffrage Society. Her standpoint on women's suffrage—she favoured extending the vote to all adults regardless of gender or property, rather than the limited "on the same terms as men" agenda pursued by the militant suffragists—divided her from the militant leadership.
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After leaving her union post in 1908 Bondfield worked as organising secretary for the WLL and later as women's officer for the National Union of General and Municipal Workers (NUGMW). She was elected to the TUC Council in 1918, and became its chairman in 1923, the year she was first elected to parliament. In the short-lived minority Labour government of 1924 she served as parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Labour. Her term of cabinet office in 1929–31 was marked by the economic crises that beset the second Labour government. Her willingness to contemplate cuts in unemployment benefits alienated her from much of the Labour movement, although she did not follow Ramsay MacDonald into the National Government that assumed office when the Labour government fell in August 1931. Bondfield remained active in NUGMW affairs until 1938, and during the Second World War carried out investigations for the Women's Group on Public Welfare.
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Bondfield, Margaret O
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Oswald Garrison Villard papers
Oswald Garrison Villard papers
Title:
Oswald Garrison Villard papers
Papers of American author, journalist, editor, and social reformer Oswald Garrison Villard. Includes materials that are unsorted and uncataloged.
ArchivalResource:
37 linear feet (169 boxes and 9 volumes)
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940. Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957.
Title:
Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957.
Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, writings, and collateral papers documenting Wald's career in public health nursing and social work in New York City, her association with the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service, and her many other social welfare concerns, such as child labor, housing, recreation, sanitation, peace, prohibition, and women's suffrage.
Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940. Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1889-1957.
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Women in politics : typescript signed with holograph emendations : [Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England], [1944].
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Women in politics : typescript signed with holograph emendations : [Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England], [1944].
Title:
Women in politics : typescript signed with holograph emendations : [Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England], [1944].
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950. Women in politics : typescript signed with holograph emendations : [Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, England], [1944].
Autograph Letter Collection: Women's Suffrage (also includes postage stamps), 1851-1973
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.
Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.
Title:
Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.
The bulk of the images in this collection are group portraits showing members of the various labor organizations in which Schneiderman participated. Especially notable are: the young Schneiderman speaking at a suffrage rally; Schneiderman with a WTUL parade float, individual studio portraits of WTUL leaders, some with handwritten inscriptions; the First International Congress of Working Women; the staff of the Bryn Mawr Summer School of Women Workers; Eleanor Roosevelt with the WTUL leadership; an informal snapshot of Schneiderman with FDR and a series of 8 photoprints of WAACs training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, during World War II. In addition, the Collection includes one 8 1/2 x 11 color poster announcing a Schneiderman lecture (c. 1914) on the "Women's Question from the Industrial Point of View".
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.33 linear feet.109 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Rose Schneiderman Collection. Photographic prints, 1909-1962.
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Rose Schneiderman Photographs 1909-1962
Rose Schneiderman Photographs, 1909-1962
Title:
Rose Schneiderman Photographs 1909-1962
From the time that she entered the garment trade in 1899, Rose Schneiderman worked through a variety of organizations to unionize women workers and to improve their working conditions. Schneiderman was a socialist, suffragist, labor organizer and women's rights activist who helped to organize the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and eulogized the garment workers who died in the 1911 Triangle Fire. A longtime member of the Women's Trade Union League, she was president of the national organization from 1927 to 1947. As a labor spokesperson, she served as secretary of the New York State Department of Labor, was the only woman member of the Labor Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and during World War II, she served on the Advisory Council of the Women's Recovery Administration and the Women's Interest Section of the War Department Bureau. The collection includes photographs that were separated from the Rose Schneiderman Papers (Tamiment 018). The bulk of the images are group portraits showing members of the various labor organizations in which Schneiderman participated.
Margaret Bondfield letter to Mrs. M. Piercy, 1924 Jan. 25.
Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953. Margaret Bondfield letter to Mrs. M. Piercy, 1924 Jan. 25.
Title:
Margaret Bondfield letter to Mrs. M. Piercy, 1924 Jan. 25.
Margaret Bondfield writes to Mrs. M. Piercy, 25 Jan. 1924, thanking her for sending a highly complimentary congratulatory letter after Bondfield's appointment as Minister of Labour.
Photographs, diaries, notebooks, suffrage speeches, memorabilia, clippings, personal correspondence, and correspondence pertaining to her suffrage work and her work as a city official. The diaries and notebooks cover the period 1911-1916, with occasional entries about Foley's suffrage work. The clippings concern mainly her work as a suffrage speaker and organizer, and the memorabilia include suffrage flags, buttons, and posters, as well as anti-suffrage literature.
Vols. CCXLII (ff. 150+111*). Jan.-April 1921.includes:f.1 F. Dickinson, of the West China Union University: Letter to Marie Stopes from F. Dickinson: 1921.f. 3 Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke: Letter to Marie Stopes from R... Jan 1921-Apr 1921
Vols. CCXLII (ff. 150+111*). Jan.-April 1921.includes:f.1 F. Dickinson, of the West China Union University: Letter to Marie Stopes from F. Dickinson: 1921.f. 3 Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke: Letter to Marie Stopes from R...
Title:
Vols. CCXLII (ff. 150+111*). Jan.-April 1921.includes:f.1 F. Dickinson, of the West China Union University: Letter to Marie Stopes from F. Dickinson: 1921.f. 3 Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke: Letter to Marie Stopes from R... Jan 1921-Apr 1921
Vols. CCXLII (ff. 150+111*). Jan.-April 1921.includes:f.1 F. Dickinson, of the West China Union University: Letter to Marie Stopes from F. Dickinson: 1921.f. 3 Richard Greville Verney, 19th Baron Willoughby de Broke: Letter to Marie Stopes from R...
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Papers, 1918-1960 (inclusive)
Papers, 1918-1960 (inclusive)
Title:
Papers, 1918-1960 (inclusive)
This collection consists mainly of correspondence with labor leaders and others on such topics as equal rights, protective legislation, organization of women workers, and Women's Bureau activities; also correspondence and printed material concerning right-wing accusations of Communist infiltration of women's organizations, and blacklisting of Anderson and others by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. XCIV (ff. 326). Miscellaneous correspondence relating mostly to the death of Sir Charles Dilke and to the subsequent publication of The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M.P., 2 vols., 1917, by S. L. Gwynn, M.P., an... 1908-1922
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. XCIV (ff. 326). Miscellaneous correspondence relating mostly to the death of Sir Charles Dilke and to the subsequent publication of The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M.P., 2 vols., 1917, by S. L. Gwynn, M.P., an..., 1908-1922
Title:
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. XCIV (ff. 326). Miscellaneous correspondence relating mostly to the death of Sir Charles Dilke and to the subsequent publication of The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M.P., 2 vols., 1917, by S. L. Gwynn, M.P., an... 1908-1922
DILKE PAPERS. Vol. XCIV (ff. 326). Miscellaneous correspondence relating mostly to the death of Sir Charles Dilke and to the subsequent publication of The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Bart., M.P., 2 vols., 1917, by S. L. Gwynn, M.P., an..., 1908-1922
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Papers, 1917-1957 (inclusive).
Dingman, Mary Agnes, 1875-1961. Papers, 1917-1957 (inclusive).
Title:
Papers, 1917-1957 (inclusive).
Correspondence, speeches, articles, clippings, biographical material, minutes, and committee reports, including records of the committee on peace and disarmament comprise the collection.
BONDFIELD MARGARET GRACE 1873 - 1953 LABOUR POLITICIAN, 1918
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Papers, 1903-1982 (inclusive).
Newman, Pauline. Papers, 1903-1982 (inclusive).
Title:
Papers, 1903-1982 (inclusive).
Personal papers consist of a memoir and autobiographical notes, two oral history interviews, diaries, daybooks, and correspondence, including letters from and about Frieda Miller. Reports, correspondence, position papers, articles, and minutes document Newman's work with the WTUL, ILGWU and its health center, the Women's Bureau, and other government agencies. Included is correspondence with Leonora O'Reilly, Rose Schneiderman, Elisabeth Christman and Mary Dreier. Newman's travels through the Midwest, 1911-1918, to organize union locals and strikes are discussed in letters to Schneiderman and in articles Newman wrote. Her articles also reflect her support of protective legislation, equal pay, improved working conditions, and the minimum wage, and her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. A microfilm of clippings by and about Newman and some photos are also included.
Lillian D. Wald, a public health nurse and social worker on New York City's Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in 1893 and was a crusader for liberal, social welfare and philanthropic causes including child welfare, civil liberties, immigration, unemployment and the peace movement during World War I. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, articles and printed materials relating to Wald's involvement with various social initiatives.
Evans, Elizabeth Glendower, 1856-1937. Papers, 1859-1944 (inclusive), 1882-1944 (bulk).
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
creatorOf
Papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk).
Papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk).
Title:
Papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk).
Correspondence, clippings, speeches, publications, government documents, and other printed material concerning her involvement in the Labour Party and its election campaigns, 1919-1947; unemployment insurance, strikes, and juvenile employment, 1912-1931; political trip to Russia in 1920; political and labor concerns in Australia, 1929-1941; British immigration to Canada, 1924-1938; postwar affairs in Germany, 1946-1947; trips to America, 1910-1949; and various women's groups including the International Congress of Working Women, Women's Group on Public Welfare, National Institute of Houseworkers, the Shaw Training School, and the Women's Peace Crusade, 1921-1940. Correspondents include Helen Lockwood, Edith and Grace Abbott, Clement Atlee, Angelica Balabanoff, Martha Anderson, Mary Anderson, William H. Beveridge, Ernst Bevan, Edward Carpenter, Madame Joliet-Curie, Mary Dingman, David Lilienthal, J. Ramsey MacDonald, Violet Markham, Frieda S. Miller, Mrs. Vijaylaxmi Pandit, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rose Schneiderman, and Lillian Wald. Personal and travel diaries, 1898, 1908, 1910-1951. Correspondence with John Hilton and Percy Wallis concerning wage and price controls, 1932. Bondfield's articles, broadcasts, speeches, and related correspondence, 1902-1948, and clippings about her, 1898-1949.
Miller, Frieda S. Papers, 1909-1973 (inclusive), 1929-1967 (bulk).
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Vol. XVII (ff. 294). 1898-March 1900.Joseph Perry, Secretary, Spanish Atrocities Committee; not J Perry, of the London Cabdrivers' Trade Union: Letter to J. Burns: 1898.COUNTY OF London: Correspondence and papers of J. Burns as L.C.C. representative ... 1898-Mar 1900
Vol. XVII (ff. 294). 1898-March 1900.Joseph Perry, Secretary, Spanish Atrocities Committee; not J Perry, of the London Cabdrivers' Trade Union: Letter to J. Burns: 1898.COUNTY OF London: Correspondence and papers of J. Burns as L.C.C. representative ...
Title:
Vol. XVII (ff. 294). 1898-March 1900.Joseph Perry, Secretary, Spanish Atrocities Committee; not J Perry, of the London Cabdrivers' Trade Union: Letter to J. Burns: 1898.COUNTY OF London: Correspondence and papers of J. Burns as L.C.C. representative ... 1898-Mar 1900
Vol. XVII (ff. 294). 1898-March 1900.Joseph Perry, Secretary, Spanish Atrocities Committee; not J Perry, of the London Cabdrivers' Trade Union: Letter to J. Burns: 1898.COUNTY OF London: Correspondence and papers of J. Burns as L.C.C. representative ...
(ff. 185). 1911-1913.This volume was refoliated in 2002-2003, but the bound sequence is unchanged.includes:ff. 1-15 George Bernard Shaw, author: 'The Ideals of Socialism' of George Bernard Shaw: 1911: Partly press cuttings.ff. 16-105 Gilbert Kei... 1911-1913
(ff. 185). 1911-1913.This volume was refoliated in 2002-2003, but the bound sequence is unchanged.includes:ff. 1-15 George Bernard Shaw, author: 'The Ideals of Socialism' of George Bernard Shaw: 1911: Partly press cuttings.ff. 16-105 Gilbert Kei..., 1911-1913
Title:
(ff. 185). 1911-1913.This volume was refoliated in 2002-2003, but the bound sequence is unchanged.includes:ff. 1-15 George Bernard Shaw, author: 'The Ideals of Socialism' of George Bernard Shaw: 1911: Partly press cuttings.ff. 16-105 Gilbert Kei... 1911-1913
(ff. 185). 1911-1913.This volume was refoliated in 2002-2003, but the bound sequence is unchanged.includes:ff. 1-15 George Bernard Shaw, author: 'The Ideals of Socialism' of George Bernard Shaw: 1911: Partly press cuttings.ff. 16-105 Gilbert Kei..., 1911-1913
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
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Susan Groag Bell's research and reference materials, An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1790-1950 : 1986-1998
Susan Groag Bell's, An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1790-1950 :, research and reference materials, 1986-1998
Title:
Susan Groag Bell's research and reference materials, An Annotated bibliography of British Women's autobiographies, 1790-1950 : 1986-1998
MS Mus. 1644. Vol. xix. Bennett-Casals. There are two sequences of letters from Arnold Bennett: the second group (ff. 87-118.) was previously deposited with Cohen’s solicitor and was added to the present collection in 1969.ff. 202. 280 x 220mm.includ... Unspecified
MS Mus. 1644. Vol. xix. Bennett-Casals. There are two sequences of letters from Arnold Bennett: the second group (ff. 87-118.) was previously deposited with Cohen’s solicitor and was added to the present collection in 1969.ff. 202. 280 x 220mm.includ...
Title:
MS Mus. 1644. Vol. xix. Bennett-Casals. There are two sequences of letters from Arnold Bennett: the second group (ff. 87-118.) was previously deposited with Cohen’s solicitor and was added to the present collection in 1969.ff. 202. 280 x 220mm.includ... Unspecified
MS Mus. 1644. Vol. xix. Bennett-Casals. There are two sequences of letters from Arnold Bennett: the second group (ff. 87-118.) was previously deposited with Cohen’s solicitor and was added to the present collection in 1969.ff. 202. 280 x 220mm.includ...
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Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
creatorOf
Margaret Grace Bondfield papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk).
Margaret Grace Bondfield papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk).
Title:
Margaret Grace Bondfield papers, 1854-1951, 1898-1951 (bulk).
Manuscripts of her books, MY LEISURE, 1947, and A LIFE'S WORK, 1948. Family correspondence, 1896-1948, three letters to her father William Bondfield from Samuel Blasdale in America, 1854-1861, and manuscript on local history by J.S. Bondfield, 1880. Miscellaneous memorabilia, photographs, bibliographies, and notes on the collections. Correspondence, clippings, speeches, publications, government documents, and other printed material concerning her involvement in the Labour Party and its election campaigns, 1919-1947; unemployment insurance, strikes, and juvenile employment, 1912-1931; political trip to Russia in 1920; political and labor concerns in Australia, 1929-1941; British immigration to Canada, 1924-1938; postwar affairs in Germany, 1946-1947; trips to America, 1910-1949; and various women's groups including the International Congress of Working Women, Women's Group on Public Welfare, National Institute of Houseworkers, the Shaw Training School, and the Women's Peace Crusade, 1921-1940. Correspondents include Helen Lockwood, Edith and Grace Abbott, Clement Atlee, Angelica Balabanoff, Martha Anderson, Mary Anderson, William H. Beveridge, Ernst Bevan, Edward Carpenter, Madame Joliet-Curie, Mary Dingman, David Lilienthal, J. Ramsey MacDonald, Violet Markham, Frieda S. Miller, Mrs. Vijaylaxmi Pandit, Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rose Schneiderman, and Lillian Wald. Personal and travel diaries, 1898, 1908, 1910-1951. Correspondence with John Hilton and Percy Wallis concerning wage and price controls, 1932. Bondfield's articles, broadcasts, speeches, and related correspondence, 1902-1948, and clippings about her, 1898-1949.
ArchivalResource:
14 cubic ft. (14 boxes and 17 books)
KOTELIANSKY PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 287). General correspondence; 1916-1946, n.d. Writers of letters include Thomas Stearns Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Edward Morgan Forster. At ff. 144-151 are letters from Dr Andrew John Morland to Koteliansky and (f. 14... 1916-1946
KOTELIANSKY PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 287). General correspondence; 1916-1946, n.d. Writers of letters include Thomas Stearns Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Edward Morgan Forster. At ff. 144-151 are letters from Dr Andrew John Morland to Koteliansky and (f. 14..., 1916-1946
Title:
KOTELIANSKY PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 287). General correspondence; 1916-1946, n.d. Writers of letters include Thomas Stearns Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Edward Morgan Forster. At ff. 144-151 are letters from Dr Andrew John Morland to Koteliansky and (f. 14... 1916-1946
KOTELIANSKY PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 287). General correspondence; 1916-1946, n.d. Writers of letters include Thomas Stearns Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Edward Morgan Forster. At ff. 144-151 are letters from Dr Andrew John Morland to Koteliansky and (f. 14..., 1916-1946
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