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50 years ago THE NAME of Miss Margaret Bondfield, first woman Cabinet minister and one-time Labour MP for the ..

... 50 years ago THE NAME of Miss Margaret Bondfield, first woman Cabinet minister and one-time Labour MP for the Borough of Northampton, who recently revisited the town to attend the speech-day of the Northampton Grammar School for Girls, is to be perpetuated ...

Published: Saturday 16 May 1998
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 55 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

50 years ago ADDRESSING the scholars at Northampton School for Girls’ 31st speech day, the Rt Hon Margaret ..

... 50 years ago ADDRESSING the scholars at Northampton School for Girls’ 31st speech day, the Rt Hon Margaret Bondfield, former MP for Northampton and first woman Cabinet Minister, made an earnest plea for the girls to give their utmost support to Needy ...

Published: Thursday 05 March 1998
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Tycoon urges new economic strategy

... students the Margaret Bondfield Hall after the former Northampton Labour MP, was due to be one of the guests at today's college degree ceremony at Derngate. Nene director Martin Gaskell told Mayor Frank Tero and other guests: “Margaret Grace Bondfield was a ...

Published: Monday 13 July 1992
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 312 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Pioneer woman MP on spotlight

... Secretary, will join Ann Clwyd, MP for Cynon Valley, to describe the life, experience and significance of Margaret Bondfield. In 1897, Bondfield became the Assistant Secretary of the Shop Assistant’s Union (later the USDAW), and the following year was ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1986
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NORTHAMPTON LABOUR PARTY. GRAND CHRISTMAS BAZAAR TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), DECEMBER 9th, AT THE TOWN HALL. Opener ..

... PARTY. GRAND CHRISTMAS BAZAAR TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), DECEMBER 9th, AT THE TOWN HALL. Opener at 2.30 p.m.: RT. HON. MISS MARGARET BONDFIELD, P.C. Stalls Teas Christmas Tree All the Fun of the Fair. SOLVE THAT CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEM HERE. Admission 3d. Doors ...

Published: Friday 08 December 1950
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 46 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

First woman MP for town

... WILSON discovers more about the impressive career of Margaret Bondfield. FEMALE shop assistant who A worked a 74-hour week became one of the most powerful political figures of her day. Margaret Grace Bondfield made history by becoming the first woman to be ...

Published: Monday 19 October 1998
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

IN SINGAPORE

... IN SINGAPORE MISS MARGARET BONDFIELD (second from left), a /or►ner M P. for Northampton, at the Labour Party bazaar at the Town Hall on Saturday. On left is Mrs. A. Ball, her ',ruck-end host. Father Christmas was Mr. B. Berrill and the boy is Jeff( ry ...

Published: Monday 11 December 1950
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 74 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Leading Labour lights

... Leading Labour lights COUNTY Labour party supporters will be remembering politician Margaret Bondfield at an annual dinner. She was MP for Northampton from 1923 to 1924 and became the first woman cabinet minister and chairman of the TUC. The dinner will ...

MP is remembered

... MP is remembered mmwhwnw Twmwn.m«-m ber The late Margaret Bondfield was MP for Northampton in 1923-4 and became the first woman cabinet minister and chairman of the TUC. Guest speaker Euro MP Angela Billingham will be recounting her experiences in Brussels ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

WIRED RAIL FARE

... farm horse so seriously that it had to be destroyed. MARGARET BONDFIELD REVISITS NORTHAMPTON UEFORE she opened Northampton Labour Party’s bazaar at the Town Hall on Saturday. Miss Margaret Bondfield, former M.P. for the borough, visited the avenue named ...

Published: Friday 15 December 1950
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 307 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

How neat Noddy cleaned up the litter

... Northampton’s first female Labour MP? - Lillian Whitehead, Semiiong. @ 1 was very interested to read the letter about Margaret Bondfield. If the writer is interested, I am giving a talk to St James Co-op Women'’s Guild at the Exeter Rooms on June 28 at ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 6 | Tags: none