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Apr 7, 2023 · Keir Hardie’s death. Hardie resigned the Labour Party leadership in 1908 but remained active in many areas, including the campaign for female suffrage. However, he died young – at 59 – of pneumonia in Glasgow on 26 September 1915. Speaking at his funeral, Fred Jowett, who succeeded Hardie as chairman of the Independent Labour Party was ...
Keir Hardie. Caroline Benn. Richard Cohen Books, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 537 pages. This is the biography of former Labour leader Keir Hardie. I am an agitator, he once said. My work has consisted of trying to stir up a divine discontent with wrong. Widely regarded at the time of his death in 1915 as a failure, he is seen today as ...
In this section we provide links to some of Keir Hardie's speeches made while he was an MP. in the House of Commons. Highlighting some key contributions. . Child Labour. In a parliamentary debate in February 2015, Keir Hardie challenged the use of child labour in agricultural districts. At the time every child between the ages of five and ...
Sep 26, 2015 · 100 years on – Keir Hardie, without a childhood. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of Labour’s first leader Keir Hardie today, LabourList is publishing a series of Hardie’s writings, introduced by Blair McDougall. While he had some idyllic early memories of growing up in countryside around Lanarkshire, Keir Hardie later ...
Oct 1, 2023 · Most biographies on Keir Hardie (1856–1915), credit his win to the anti-war sentiments of the sitting junior MP, William Pritchard Morgan. The truth however, is much more complicated. As I relate in my book The Welsh Gold King (Pen and Sword, 2022) Morgan had come to prominence when he revived the gold mining industry in Wales and having made a massive find in 1888, he promised to pay off ...
Keir Hardie’s 1888 Lanark By-Election poster has Home Rule as one of his commitments to the electorate. In 1889 he wrote: "I believe the people of Scotland desire a Parliament of their own and it will be for them to send to the House of Commons a body of men pledged to obtain it." . As the Secretary of the Keir Hardie Society, I have to ...
One man - James Keir Hardie - was the brains behind the modern Labour movement. To this day, he remains one of Scotland's most famous politicians, and his struggle for working class justice still provides inspiration for those who believe in a fairer and more equal society. Hardie was born in 1856.
