Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Wilkinson
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson PCwas a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death. Earlier in her career, as the Member of Parliamentfor Jarrow, she became a national figure when she figured prominently in the 1936 Jarrow March of the town's unemployed to London, to petition for the right to work. Although unsuccessful at that time, the march provided an iconic image for the 1930s, and helped to form post-Second World War attitudes...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth8 October 1891
Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?
Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.
I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.
But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.