This book is foremostly a history of George Greenwood and Vera Terrington, too largely forgotten early twentieth century British-elected members of Parliament of Left Centre convictions and their themes of activism, animal rights, feminism, and anti-militarism. It relates a twentieth-century history of the last three themes to the author's own experiences of activism in the UK Labour and Liberal parties. It suggests contemporary disinterest in changing politics is unjustified and ordinary people, activists and elected backbenchers can, if located in skillful cause campaigning, make a Left Centre difference, principally on animal rights advancement as part of our overall species' progressivism. Especially as Greenwood and Terrington themselves achieved this advancement in the hung balance of power 1910--1915 last minority Liberal and 1924 first minority Labour government’s periods of office. It is strongly critical of Right-wing historiography.
Lawrence Irvine Iles (Larry Iles) is an activist fifty-six year old freelance political British historian, based both sides of the Atlantic, Eastbourne and Kirksville respectively. Born in Epson 1954 he graduated from John Fisher School Sixth Form Centre, Croydon with results that included l972 Grade Special Distinction highest award in Modern History, Cambridge Special Paper Advanced Level Exams. He went on in 1975 to attain BA Combined Honours Politics and History at University of Newcastle on Tyne, l977 PGCE Schools Based Teaching Award, majoring in History Teaching Methods, University of London Kings College, l978 MA US Area Studies majoring in History, University College London, l982 MA Honours History majoring in European Modern History since l450, University of Illinois at Urbana, and l987 ABD majoring in European History, Washington University St. Louis. He has taught History with acclamation testimonials, l977 Houghton Regis Upper School, Dunstable, l979 Bishop Wand Comprehensive School, Sunbury on Thames, 1989 Blackheath High School for Girls, London, l992-1993 Roedean School in Brighton, and 2002 St. Mary Hall School, now the junior part itself of Roedean Upper School. As well as University Honorary Fellowship and Assistant History Lecturer post at l987 Birmingham University UK, where he processed, published the papers of Charles Masterman PC MA in Heslop List Series. He broadcasts and publishes frequently as a UK Labour Party International branch member and East Sussex Co-Operative Party branch member specializing in the history of first women UK Labour Members of Parliament and Radical Liberal and Labour Members of Parliament. He also publishes contemporary and modern history politics letters and essays in Truman State University The Gadfly, The Index, and The Monitor publications. In Great Britain itself, Tribune and Socialist Worker Weekly frequently select his letters for publication as extensively have done also the Brighton Evening Argus and the London Evening Standard. He gave the Anti-Gulf War I case in 1991 UK Channel IV Right to Reply program. He has served in public life as l996 Executive elective member Hove Constituency Labour Party, and vote raised as Labour candidate 1991 Stanford ward Hove Borough Council and same ward l993 East Sussex County Council. He was in l975 Chairperson Newcastle on Tyne University Liberal Society. Most recently since 2005 he has been an Honorary Researcher at Bibliothèque François Mitterand National Archives, Paris, France, in History, and is a lifelong Unitarian Christian Socialist freethinker.