This online seminar will consider the relationship between the government and the trades unions during Ramsay MacDonald’s first Labour administration of 1924, with a particular focus on the role of women. Panellists will include John Edmonds (former General Secretary of the GMB), Nan Sloane (author of Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries (2022) and The Women in the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History (2018)) and Professor Sue Milner from the University of Bath (author of Women and Employment in Public Policy (OUP, 2024)).
All welcome– this seminar is free to attend but booking in advance is required.
