About the author: Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947) was a key figure in
the socialist and feminist movement. She was born in Manchester and
became the first woman on the city council, she supported women’s
suffrage, became Labour MP for Jarrow and helped lead the Jarrow
Crusade. She was the first female Minister of Education, in 1945
government. The Town That Was Murdered was first published by
Gollancz in the Left Book Club series in 1939.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Wilkinson#Communism
Hear! Listen to Laura Beers lecture on Red Ellen at the 2017 London
School of Economics Literary Festival
Listen to a conversation with Beers about Ellen Wilkinson on the
Reviews in History podcast
About the Editor: Dr. Matt Perry, Reader in Labour History,
Newcastle University; author of "Red Ellen" Wilkinson: Her Ideas,
Movements and World, Manchester University Press, 2014, and Bread
and Work: the experience of unemployment 1918-1939, London, UK:
Pluto, 2000.”
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