1817 Gagging Acts: Banned meetings of over fifty people and made magistrates to arrest everyone suspected of spreading libel.
1819 Six Acts: Six measures attempting to suppress radical newspapers and meetings.
1825 Combination Act: Made it illegal for workers to join to press their employers for shorter hours or may pay.
1825 Combination Acts: Took action against political agitation among industrial workers.
1871 Trade Union Act: Secured the legal status of trade unions.
1906 Trades Disputes Act: Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action.
1913 Trade Union Act: Gave unions the right to divide its subscriptions into a political and a social fund.
1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act: Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions.
Alexander Macdonald: A member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions; joined as the first working-class members of the House of Commons.
Annie Besant: Member of the Secular Society; wrote and published her own book advocating birth control entitled The Laws of Population.
Arthur Henderson: Elected as a paid organizer of the Iron Founders Union. Main person responsible for Labour and the Nation pamphlet.
Ben Tillett: Led a strike at Tilbury Dock; became involved in the London Dock Strike; one of England's leading socialists.
Bloody Sunday: A meeting of the Social Democratic Federation that was banned, but continued and was attacked by the police.
Clementina Black: Became a member of the Women's Trade Union League; wrote several books on the problem of low pay.
Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act: Made it legal for an individual to stop work.
Ernest Bevin: Was opposed to the forming of the Triple Alliance with the miners and railwaymen.
Frederic Harrison: Developed radical political views; refused to sign the Majority Report; appointed alderman of the new London County Council.
Gas Workers Union: Formed in 1889 to protect gas workers from the power of their employers.
George Barnes: A full-time union official; formed the National Committee of Organised Labour for Old Age Pensions.
George Howell: Campaigned for universal suffrage; published several books on trade unionism.
George Potter: Established a trade union weekly newspaper, the Bee-Hive; gave support to trade unionists.
Hannah Mitchell: Became a full-time worker for the Women's Social and Political Union; joined the Independent Labour Party in 1914.
Harry Gosling: Elected to the Trade Union Congress parliamentary committee; a member of the House of Commons.
Henry Broadhurst: Campaigned to reduce the working week and an increase the wage in the building industry.
Isabella Ford: An important writer of books on the struggle for equality.
James Keir Hardie: Devoted to improving the organisation of the Independent Labour Party.
Jimmy Thomas: Important figure in the amalgamation of several unions to form the National Union of Railwaymen.
John Burns: Elected to represent Battersea in the House of Commons.
John Hodge: President of the Iron & Steel Trades Confederation.
Joseph Clynes: Was given the post as leader of the House of Commons.
Justice: Social Democratic Federation's weekly newspaper.
Lansbury's Labour Weekly: Provided an important source of news during the 1926 General Strike.
London Dockers' Strike: Resulted from a dispute over pay and conditions in 1888.
Manchester Chronicle: A newspaper that had a loyal following with those who opposed social reform.
Margaret Bondfield: Became one of the first women to enter the House of Commons. She was elected as a labour MP.
Mary Gawthorpe: Became the full-time organizer of the Women's Social and Political Union in Leeds.
Masters and Servants Act: Narrowly defined the rights of trade unions as meeting to bargain over wages and conditions.
Robert Applegarth: Led the campaign to have the Minority Report accepted by the new Liberal government.
Robert Smillie: Opposed to Britain's involvement in the First World War; played an active role in the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.
Royal Commission on Trade Unions: Set up by Earl of Derby; Robert Applegarth was chosen as a union observer of the proceedings.
The 1926 General Strike: In response to the announcement of reduction of miner's wages; known as Red Friday.
The Bee-Hive: A trade union weekly newspaper established in 1861.
The Black Dwarf: A new radical unstamped journal, which was critical of Lord Liverpool and his government.
The Clarion: A socialist weekly established by Robert Blatchford in 1890.
The Commonweal: Believed that the main function of all socialist organisations was to "educate the people."
The Labour Elector: A paper campaigning for the eight-hour day and denouncing bad employers.
The Matchgirls' Strike: Protested working conditions and fines imposed upon women at Bryant & May in 1888.
The New Statesman: Regular articles that were published by the Fabian Society, which ended up recruiting over 2,000 people to become subscribers.
The Northern Star: Contained reports on Chartist meets all over Britain.
The Poor Man's Guardian: Paper published arguing that the real struggle was for universal suffrage.
The Red Republican: Educated working class readers about socialism and internationalism.
The Republican: A radical journal criticizing the government about the Peterloo Massacre.
The Sheffield Outrages: Trade unionists used arson and murder to intimidate non-unionists.
Thomas Burt: Campaigned for reform of the 1871 Trade Union Act.
Tom Mann: A strong advocate of the eight-hour day.
Trade Union Congress: Held a meeting every year to discuss issues of importance to the labour movement.
Tribune: Newspaper attempting to recreate the Labour Party as a truly socialist organization.
Will Crooks: Became chairman of the Public Control Committee and in this post promoted fair wages.
Will Thorne: Helped to establish the National Union of Gasworkers & General Labourers.