Margaret Bondfield

Name: Margaret Bondfield
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing (AUS)
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The Life and Times of Britainâs First Female Cabinet Minister

By: Nan Sloane

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Hardcover | 19 February 2026

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A groundbreaking biography of Margaret Bondfield, the remarkable political pioneer and working-class woman who rose to become the first female Cabinet Minister in Attlee's 1929 Labour government.

Rising from modest semi-rural, semi-industrial origins in the West Country, and years of apprenticeship in shops in Brighton, Bondfield became the first woman to chair the TUC, one of the first female Labour MPs, the first woman to hold government office (1924) and in 1929, the first female Cabinet Minister.

Most of her life was lived in public eye, but what lay behind her public achievements? In this remarkable book, Labour Historian Nan Sloane looks beyond the public façade to reveal Bondfield's hidden personal story. From her complicated personality with a difficult background, a private life which was either secret or non-existent, and a lifelong struggle with mental ill-health and imposter syndrome.

Drawing on newly uncovered archival material, including Bondfield's own diaries, this is a fresh and vitally needed reassessment of Margaret Bondfield's influential life and contribution. A vital and timely biography that restores Bondfield to her rightful, and prominent place in British political history.

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