Margaret Bondfield
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Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor i
Bondfield in 1919
A modern (2009) photograph of the main street in Chard, Somerset, Bondfield's home town
Brighton in the 1890s
Beatrice and Sidney Webb, c. 1895; they were among Bondfield's early socialist acquaintances
Ramsay MacDonald
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James Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first briefly in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party: a minority Labo
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…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…
MacDonald in 1923
Bloody Sunday
Macdonald (third from left) in 1906, with other leading figures in the party
Ramsay MacDonald by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1911