Margaret Bondfield
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish feminist and trade unionist (1873-1953)
Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929-31.
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A modern (2009) photograph of the main street in Chard, Somerset, Bondfield's home town
Brighton in the 1890s
Beatrice and Sidney Webb, c. 1895; they were among Bondfield's early socialist acquaintances
Cartoon showing Bondfield addressing a NAUSAWC recruitment meeting, July 1898
Bondfield in 1900
Bondfield in 1904
Report from the debate on suffrage and equality between Bondfield and Teresa Billington-GreigAwards 1
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Margaret Grace Bondfield was a British Labour Party politician, trade unionist and women's rights activist. She became the first female cabinet minister, and the first woman to be a privy counsellor in the UK, when she was appointed Minister of Labour in the Labour government of 1929-31. She had earlier become the first woman to chair the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
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