|
F. L. Kerran
Ferdinand Louis Kerran (1883 – 1949) was a British people, British political activist, prominent in the labour movement. Born in Chester, as Ferdinand Kehrhahn, Kerran's father was a German who had settled in England. Kerran joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) in 1906, then the Social Democratic Federation in 1908. This became the British Socialist Party (BSP), in which Kerran was a prominent left-winger; by 1913, he was its National Trading Secretary. However, he was also active in the anti-semitic League for Clean Government, organising its campaign in the 1913 South Lanarkshire by-election. Outside politics, he ran a photography business and was a supporter of women's suffrage, having been described as the "semi-official" photographer of the Women's Social and Political Union. Due to his German heritage, Kerran was interned at the start of World War I. He was imprisoned in Islington Workhouse, which was at the time used for internment. Here he met the prominent Bol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
