Ellen Wilkinson
British Labour Party politician (1891-1947) · United Kingdom · On the map · Politicians · Died at 55
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson was a British Labour Party politician who served as Minister of Education from July 1945 until her death.
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![The building at the junction of Devonshire Street and Hyde Road, Ardwick, that housed the Ardwick Higher Elementary Grade School in the 1900s.{{cite web|title= Ardwick Schools Collection|url= http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb418-ard|publisher= Archivehub|access-date= 1 October 2014|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141012023250/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb418-ard|archive-date= 12 October 2014|df= dmy-all}} "},"group":{"wt":"n"}},"i":0}}]}">[n 1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Nicholls_Hospital_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1221637.jpg/500px-Nicholls_Hospital_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1221637.jpg)
The building at the junction of Devonshire Street and Hyde Road, Ardwick, that housed the Ardwick Higher Elementary Grade School in the 1900s.{{cite web|title= Ardwick Schools Collection|url= http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb418-ard|publisher= Archivehub|access-date= 1 October 2014|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141012023250/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb418-ard|archive-date= 12 October 2014|df= dmy-all}} "},"group":{"wt":"n"}},"i":0}}]}">[n 1]
Whitworth Hall, Manchester University's Oxford Road building
Ramsay MacDonald, Labour's first prime minister![Jarrow Town Hall and Palmer Statue, starting point for the Jarrow March, 5 October 1936[116] (2007 photograph)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Palmer_Statue_overlooking_Jarrow_Town_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1596898.jpg/330px-Palmer_Statue_overlooking_Jarrow_Town_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1596898.jpg)
Jarrow Town Hall and Palmer Statue, starting point for the Jarrow March, 5 October 1936[116] (2007 photograph)
Ellen Wilkinson marching with the Jarrow Marchers, Cricklewood, London
Families sheltering in a London Tube station, c. 1940
Temporary classroom huts, built to accommodate the rise in school pupils following the raising of the leaving ageAbout this person
Earlier in her career, as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Jarrow, she became a national figure when she played a prominent role 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 to unemployment and social justice.
