Alice in Westminster : the political life of Alice Bacon / Rachel Reeves with Richard Carr.
By: Reeves, Rachel [author.]
.Contributor(s): Carr, Richard [author.].Copyright date: London : I.B. Tauris, 2018Description: xviii, 222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788313070; 9781786721518; 9781786731517.Subject(s): Bacon, Alice Martha, Baroness Bacon, 1909-1993 | Labour Party (Great Britain) | Women politicians -- Great Britain -- Biography | Politicians -- Great Britain -- BiographyDDC classification: 920 Summary: "Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain's postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed." -- Taken from front matter.
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| 920 BAC Francis Bacon / | 920 BAC Francis Bacon : | 920 BAC Hostage to fortune : | 920 BAC Alice in Westminster : | 920 BAD Baden-Powell / | 920 BAG A little overmatter / | 920 BAG The memoirs of Walter Bagehot / |
"Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain's postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed." -- Taken from front matter.