There were two reasons why the British politician Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947 ... many times and traveled all over Europe and as far as India. Indeed, she was a strong advocate for India’s ...

Wilkinson became known as “Red Ellen”, thanks to her flaming hair ... America to raise money for striking miners. She also met India’s nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru at the Founding ...

In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery, outspoken teenager from a working-class ... from the quest for official recognition of the Spanish Republican government, to the fight for Indian independence, to the ...

Her brother, Chris Foote-Wood raised £24,000 ($29,000) for the statue. Middlesbrough will honor Ellen Wilkinson, who served as an MP in the area in the 1930s before becoming education secretary ...

The University of Manchester has paid tribute to Ellen Wilkinson, Labour’s first Education Secretary in the 1945 Attlee Government who studied history there from 1910 to 13. A more recent Education ...