# Ellen Wilkinson
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Ellen Cicely Wilkinson (8 October 1891 – 6 February 1947) was 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 Parliament (MP) for 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. Although unsuccessful at that time, the March provided an iconic image for the 1930s and helped to form post-Second World War attitudes to unemployment and social justice.
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, socialist, feminist, internationalist
Contributor(s): Dr Laura Beers
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, socialist, feminist, internationalist
Contributor(s): Dr Laura Beers
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, socialist, feminist, internationalist
Contributor(s): Dr Laura Beers
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, socialist, feminist, internationalist
Contributor(s): Dr Laura Beers
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, socialist, feminist, internationalist
Contributor(s): Dr Laura Beers
LSE Literary Festival 2017 | Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, socialist, feminist, internationalist
Contributor(s): Dr Laura Beers
The forgotten pioneer: Who was Margaret Bondfield, Britain’s first female Cabinet Minister?
Why is Britain’s first female cabinet minister almost invisible in our political memory?
In this episode we are joined by historian and author Nan Sloane, whose new biography of Margaret Bondfield has just been published, to uncover the remarkable and largely forgotten story of this pioneering figu…
Mr Smith Goes to Washington, with Aidan Byrne (#12)
Aidan Byrne joins Mark and Cory to watch the classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington. It's a film full of shameless emotional manipulation, especially from some of the children in it. They marvel at the performances of Jimmy Stewart, Claude Rains and especially Jean Arthur, wonder if this film has an a…
The Division Bell Mystery, with Elinor Taylor (#13)
Mark and Cory are joined by Elinor Taylor for our first book! It is Ellen Wilkinson’s The Division Bell Mystery, a political thriller disguised as a golden age detective story. It is written by one of the country's first female MPs and is full of convincing and vivid political detail about what it …
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