Vera Brittain
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Vera Mary Brittain was an English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, writer, feminist, socialist and pacifist. Her best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth recounted her experiences during the First W
Brittain shortly after the First World War
Plaque at 58 Doughty Street, London
Tombstone of Edward Brittain, Granezza British Cemetery, Asiago Plateau
A promenade bears the name of Vera Brittain in Hamburg-Hammerbrook
Shirley Williams
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Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament, she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 t
Vera Brittain
…autobiography Family Quartet, which appeared in 1987. Their daughter, born 1930, was the former Labour Cabinet Minister, later Liberal Democrat peer, Shirley Williams (1930–2021), one of the "Gang of Four" rebels on the Social Democratic wing of the Labour Party who founded the SDP in 1981. Like Brittain, George…
Williams in 2014
Williams in 1984
Sitting beside Peter Ustinov during an episode of the late-night TV discussion programme After Dark, 1989