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Keir Hardie

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James Keir Hardie (15 August 185626 September 1915) was a Scottish socialist, politician, and trade unionist. [1]

146 relations: Agitator, Agnes Hardie, Alan Morrison (poet), Anchor Line (steamship company), Ann Clwyd, Apartheid, Apprenticeship, Arthur Balfour, Arthur Henderson, Autodidacticism, Avocation, Ayrshire, Ayrshire Miners' Union, Baker, Blacklisting, Canning Town, Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Scottish Parliament constituency), Cathy Jamieson, Chairman, Charles Stanton, City of Sunderland, Collar (clothing), Conscientious objector, Conservative Party (UK), Cumnock, Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency), D. A. Thomas, David Blunkett, David Hardie (politician), David Livingstone, David Shackleton, Deerstalker, Dictionary of National Biography, Domestic worker, Dunfermline, Ed Balls, Edgar Jones (politician), Edinburgh, Edward VIII, Edward VIII abdication crisis, Emrys Hughes, Essex, Evangelical Union (Scotland), Fabian Society, Fiona Mactaggart, Fred Jowett, Frock coat, General strike, George Hardie (politician), George Roberts (British politician), ..., Georgism, Gladstone–MacDonald pact, Glasgow, Govan, Greater Glasgow, Greater London, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Hewer, Holytown, Home Secretary, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Lords, Hugh Gaffney, Independent Labour Party, India, James Martin Charlton, Jim Kenworth, John Bruce Glasier, Kenneth O. Morgan, Kilwinning, Labour Leader, Labour movement, Labour Party (UK), Labour Party (UK) Conference, Lanarkshire, Landslide victory, Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Liberal Party (UK), List of peace activists, Lithography, Lithuanians, Little Thurrock, Lockout (industry), London Borough of Newham, London Underground, Manchester East (UK Parliament constituency), Marxists Internet Archive, Member of parliament, Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency), Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1915, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888, Monarchy, Morganatic marriage, Motherwell, Nan Hardie, National Party of Scotland, Newarthill, Newhouse, North Lanarkshire, On Royalty, Pacifism, Politician, Pontypridd, Public speaking, Quarry, Quarter, South Lanarkshire, Ramsay MacDonald, Richard Leonard (Scottish politician), Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Safe seat, Samuel Johnson, Scottish Labour Party, Scottish Labour Party (1888), Scottish Land Restoration League, Scottish National Party, Sectarianism, Self-governance, Shorthand, Socialism, Socialist Party of America, South Africa, South Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency), Stroke, Suffragette, Suit (clothing), Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, Swansea University, Sylvia Pankhurst, Temperance movement, Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), Top hat, Trade union, Tweed (cloth), Union of South Africa, United Kingdom general election, 1892, United Kingdom general election, 1895, United Kingdom general election, 1900, Utopia, West Ham South (UK Parliament constituency), William Anderson (British politician), William Ewart Gladstone, William Pritchard Morgan, Working class, World War I. Expand index (96 more) »

Agitator

The Agitators were a political movement as well as elected representatives of soldiers, including the New Model Army of Oliver Cromwell, during the English Civil War.

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Agnes Hardie

Agnes Agnew Hardie (née Pettigrew; 6 September 1874 – 24 March 1951) was a British Labour politician.

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Alan Morrison (poet)

Alan Duncan Morrison (born 18 July 1974, Brighton) is a British poet.

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Anchor Line (steamship company)

Anchor Line was a Scottish merchant shipping company that was founded in 1855 and dissolved in 1980.

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Ann Clwyd

Ann Clwyd Roberts (born 21 March 1937) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Cynon Valley since 1984.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Apprenticeship

An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading).

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Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, (25 July 184819 March 1930) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.

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Arthur Henderson

Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British iron moulder and Labour politician.

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Autodidacticism

Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools).

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Avocation

An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation.

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Ayrshire

Ayrshire (Siorrachd Inbhir Àir) is an historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde.

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Ayrshire Miners' Union

The Ayrshire Miners' Union was a coal mining trade union based in Scotland.

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Baker

A baker is someone who bakes and sometimes sells breads and other products made using an oven or other concentrated heat source.

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Blacklisting

Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.

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Canning Town

Canning Town is a district in the West Ham area of the London Borough of Newham in East London, England.

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Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley is a county constituency of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Scotland.

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Cathy Jamieson

Catherine Mary Jamieson (born 3 November 1956) is a Scottish Labour party politician and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kilmarnock & Loudoun from 2010 to 2015 where her seat was gained by Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate Alan Brown.

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Chairman

The chairman (also chairperson, chairwoman or chair) is the highest officer of an organized group such as a board, a committee, or a deliberative assembly.

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Charles Stanton

Charles Butt Stanton (7 April 1873 – 6 December 1946) was a British politician, who served as an MP from 1915-22.

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City of Sunderland

The City of Sunderland is a local government district of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough.

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Collar (clothing)

In clothing, a collar is the part of a shirt, dress, coat or blouse that fastens around or frames the neck.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Cumnock

Cumnock (Cumnag in Gaelic) is a town in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Cynon Valley (UK Parliament constituency)

Cynon Valley (Cwm Cynon) is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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D. A. Thomas

David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, PC (26 March 1856 – 3 July 1918) was a Welsh industrialist and Liberal politician.

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David Blunkett

David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, (born 6 June 1947) is a former British politician, having represented the Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough constituency for 28 years through to 7 May 2015 when he stepped down at the general election.

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David Hardie (politician)

David Hardie (ca. 1860 or 27 January 1871 – 8 April 1939) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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David Livingstone

David Livingstone (19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish Christian Congregationalist, pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late-19th-century Victorian era.

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David Shackleton

Sir David James Shackleton (21 November 1863 – 1 August 1938) was a cotton worker and trade unionist who became the third Labour Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, following the formation of the Labour Representation Committee.

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Deerstalker

A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.

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Domestic worker

A domestic worker, domestic helper, domestic servant, manservant or menial, is a person who works within the employer's household.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a town and former Royal Burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Ed Balls

Edward Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a retired British Labour and Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Normanton from 2005 to 2010 and for Morley and Outwood from 2010 to 2015, when he lost his seat to Andrea Jenkyns of the Conservative Party.

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Edgar Jones (politician)

Sir Edgar Rees Jones (27 August 1878 – 16 June 1962) was a Welsh barrister and Liberal Party politician.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication on 11 December the same year, after which he became the Duke of Windsor.

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Edward VIII abdication crisis

In 1936, a constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing the divorce of her second.

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Emrys Hughes

Emrys Daniel Hughes (10 July 1894 – 18 October 1969) was a British Labour politician, journalist and author.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Evangelical Union (Scotland)

The Evangelical Union was a religious denomination which originated in the suspension of the Rev. James Morison, minister of a United Secession congregation in Kilmarnock, Scotland, for certain views regarding faith, the work of the Holy Spirit in salvation, and the extent of the atonement, which were regarded by the supreme court of his church as anti-Calvinistic and heretical.

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Fabian Society

The Fabian Society is a British socialist organization whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.

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Fiona Mactaggart

Fiona Margaret Mactaggart (born 12 September 1953) is a British Labour Party politician and former primary school teacher.

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Fred Jowett

Frederick William Jowett (31 January 1864 – 1 February 1944) was a British Labour politician.

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Frock coat

A frock coat is a man's coat characterised by a knee-length skirt (often cut just above the knee) all around the base, popular during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.

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General strike

A general strike (or mass strike) is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labour force in a city, region, or country participates.

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George Hardie (politician)

George Downie Blyth Crookston Hardie (8 September 1873 – 26 July 1937) was a Scottish Labour politician, and the younger brother of the party's founder Keir Hardie.

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George Roberts (British politician)

George Henry Roberts PC (27 July 1868 – 25 April 1928) was a Labour Party politician who switched parties twice.

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Georgism

Georgism, also called geoism and single tax (archaic), is an economic philosophy holding that, while people should own the value they produce themselves, economic value derived from land (including natural resources and natural opportunities) should belong equally to all members of society.

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Gladstone–MacDonald pact

The Gladstone–MacDonald pact of 1903 was a secret informal electoral agreement negotiated by Herbert Gladstone, Liberal Party Chief Whip, and Ramsay MacDonald, Secretary of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC).

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Govan

Govan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghobhainn) is a district, parish, and former burgh now part of south-west City of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Greater Glasgow

Greater Glasgow is an urban settlement in Scotland consisting of all localities which are physically attached to the city of Glasgow, forming with it a single contiguous urban area (or conurbation).

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Greater London

Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.

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Hamilton, South Lanarkshire

Hamilton is a town in South Lanarkshire, in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (7 September 183622 April 1908) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and Leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 1908.

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Hewer

A hewer (Hauer or Häuer) is a miner who loosens rock and minerals in a mine.

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Holytown

Holytown (Holy (as in the bible) Town - Holytown, Baile a' Chuilinn) is a small village outside Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Home Secretary

Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hugh Gaffney

Cllr Hugh Lawrence Gaffney (born 10 August 1963) is a Scottish Labour Party politician.

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Independent Labour Party

The Independent Labour Party (ILP) was a British political party of the left, established in 1893, when the Liberals appeared reluctant to endorse working-class candidates, representing the interests of the majority.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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James Martin Charlton

James Martin Charlton (born 29 July 1966) is an English playwright, theatre director and filmmaker.

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Jim Kenworth

Jim Kenworth is an English playwright.

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John Bruce Glasier

John Bruce Glasier (25 March 1859 – 4 June 1920) was a Scottish socialist politician, associated mainly with the Independent Labour Party.

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Kenneth O. Morgan

Kenneth Owen Morgan, Baron Morgan, (born 16 May 1934) is a Welsh historian and author, known especially for his writings on modern British history and politics and on Welsh history.

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Kilwinning

Kilwinning (from Cill D’Fhinnein) is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Labour Leader

The Labour Leader was a British socialist newspaper published for almost one hundred years.

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Labour movement

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Labour Party (UK) Conference

The Labour Party Conference, or annual national conference of the Labour Party, is formally the supreme decision-making body of the Party.

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Lanarkshire

Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Siorrachd Lannraig, Lanrikshire) is a historic county in the central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Landslide victory

A landslide victory is an electoral victory in a political system, when one candidate or party receives an overwhelming supermajority of the votes or seats in the elected body, thus utterly eliminating the opponents.

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Leader of the Labour Party (UK)

The Leader of the Labour Party is the most senior political figure within the Labour Party in the United Kingdom.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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List of peace activists

This list of peace activists includes people who have proactively advocated diplomatic, philosophical, and non-military resolution of major territorial or ideological disputes through nonviolent means and methods.

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Lithography

Lithography is a method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water.

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Lithuanians

Lithuanians (lietuviai, singular lietuvis/lietuvė) are a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,561,300 people.

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Little Thurrock

Little Thurrock is a ward and Church of England parish in the unitary authority of Thurrock, Essex.

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Lockout (industry)

A lockout is a temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.

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London Borough of Newham

The London Borough of Newham is a London borough formed from the former Essex county boroughs of West Ham and East Ham, within east London, the name being a portmanteau word reflecting its creation while combining the compass points of the old borough names.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Manchester East (UK Parliament constituency)

Manchester East was one of six single-member parliamentary constituencies created in 1885 by the division of the existing three-member Parliamentary Borough of Manchester.

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Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists Internet Archive (also known as MIA or Marxists.org) is a non-profit website that hosts a multilingual library (created in 1990) of the works of Marxist, communist, socialist, and anarchist writers, such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Che Guevara, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, as well as that of writers of related ideologies, and even unrelated ones (for instance, Sun Tzu and Adam Smith).

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Merthyr Tydfil

Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful) is a large town in Wales, with a population of about 63,546, situated approximately north of Cardiff.

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Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency)

Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan.

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Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1915

The Merthyr Tydfil by-election, 1915 was a parliamentary by-election held on 25 November 1915 for the British House of Commons constituency of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorganshire, Wales.

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Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council (Cyngor bwrdeistref Sirol Merthyr Tudful) is the governing body for Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.

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Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888

The Mid Lanarkshire by-election, 1888 was a parliamentary by-election held on 27 April 1888 for the House of Commons constituency of Mid Lanarkshire in Scotland.

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Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which a group, generally a family representing a dynasty (aristocracy), embodies the country's national identity and its head, the monarch, exercises the role of sovereignty.

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Morganatic marriage

Morganatic marriage, sometimes called a left-handed marriage, is a marriage between people of unequal social rank, which in the context of royalty prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.

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Motherwell

Motherwell (Mitherwall, Tobar na Màthar) is a large town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow.

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Nan Hardie

Agnes Paterson Hardie (5 October 1885 – 27 June 1947) was a Scottish labour movement activist.

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National Party of Scotland

The National Party of Scotland (NPS) was a centre-left political party in Scotland which was one of the predecessors of the current Scottish National Party (SNP).

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Newarthill

Newarthill is a village in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated roughly three miles north-east of the town of Motherwell.

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Newhouse, North Lanarkshire

Newhouse is a hamlet and major road interchange located in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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On Royalty

On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families is a book by Jeremy Paxman examining the ways in which the British Monarchy continues to hold to the public imagination.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Pontypridd

Pontypridd often colloquially known as Ponty, is both a community and the county town of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, and is situated 12 miles (19 km) north of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

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Public speaking

Public speaking (also called oratory or oration) is the process or act of performing a speech to a live audience.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Quarter, South Lanarkshire

Quarter is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the hill above the Clyde Valley.

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Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald, (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman who was the first Labour Party politician to become Prime Minister, leading minority Labour governments in 1924 and in 1929–31.

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Richard Leonard (Scottish politician)

Richard Leonard (born 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who is leader of the Scottish Labour Party, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Central Scotland region.

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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer.

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Safe seat

A safe seat is an electoral district (constituency) in a legislative body (e.g. Congress, Parliament, City Council) which is regarded as fully secure, for either a certain political party, or the incumbent representative personally or a combination of both.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Scottish Labour Party

The Scottish Labour Party (Pàrtaidh Làbarach na h-Alba, Scots Labour Pairty; branded Scottish Labour) is the devolved Scotland section of the United Kingdom Labour Party.

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Scottish Labour Party (1888)

The Scottish Labour Party (SLP), also known as the Scottish Parliamentary Labour Party, was formed by Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, the first socialist MP in the parliament of the United Kingdom, who later went on to become the first president of the Scottish National Party, and Keir Hardie, who later became the first leader of the British Labour Party.

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Scottish Land Restoration League

The Scottish Land Restoration League was a Georgist political party.

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Scottish National Party

The Scottish National Party (SNP; Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Scots Naitional Pairtie) is a Scottish nationalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland.

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Sectarianism

Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group.

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Self-governance

Self-governance, self-government, or autonomy, is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization.

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a multi-tendency democratic socialist and social democratic political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1868 until 1983, when it was abolished.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Suffragette

Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.

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Suit (clothing)

In clothing, a suit is a set of garments made from the same cloth, usually consisting of at least a jacket and trousers.

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Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life

Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, formerly known as Summerlee Heritage Park, is an industrial museum in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Swansea University

Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe) is a public research university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement, a prominent left communist and, later, an activist in the cause of anti-fascism.

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Temperance movement

The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais)

Thomas Evan Nicholas (6 October 1879 – 19 April 1971), who used the bardic name "Niclas y Glais" ('"Nicholas of Glais"'), was a Welsh language poet, preacher, radical, and champion of the disadvantaged of society.

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Top hat

A top hat, beaver hat, high hat, silk hat, cylinder hat, chimney pot hat or stove pipe hat, sometimes also known by the nickname "topper", is a tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, worn by men from the latter part of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Tweed (cloth)

Tweed is a rough, woolen fabric, of a soft, open, flexible texture, resembling cheviot or homespun, but more closely woven.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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United Kingdom general election, 1892

The 1892 United Kingdom general election was held from 4 July to 26 July 1892.

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United Kingdom general election, 1895

The 1895 United Kingdom general election was held between 13 July and 7 August 1895.

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United Kingdom general election, 1900

The 1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900, following the dissolution of Parliament on 25 September.

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Utopia

A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens.

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West Ham South (UK Parliament constituency)

West Ham South was a parliamentary constituency in the County Borough of West Ham, in what was then Essex but is now Greater London.

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William Anderson (British politician)

William Crawford Anderson (1877 – 25 February 1919) was a British socialist politician.

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William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone, (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.

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William Pritchard Morgan

William Pritchard Morgan (1844 – 5 July 1924) was a Welsh solicitor, mine owner, and company promoter.

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Working class

The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Hardie

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