Alumni of Trevelyan College, Durham - Mo Mowlam, Minette Walters, Rachel Squire, David J. Bodycombe, Lucy Beresford, Pippa Greenwood (Paperback)

Chapters: Mo Mowlam, Minette Walters, Rachel Squire, David J. Bodycombe, Lucy Beresford, Pippa Greenwood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam (18 September 1949 19 August 2005) was a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Redcar from 1987 to 2001, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Mowlam's time as Northern Ireland Secretary saw the signing of the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement in 1998. Her personal charisma, reputation for plain speaking and fight against a brain tumour led her to be perceived by many as one of the most popular "New Labour" politicians in the UK; a fact reflected in the standing ovation she received when Tony Blair mentioned her name in his speech at the 1998 Labour Party Conference. Mowlam was born at 43 King Street, Watford, England, the middle of three children of Tina and Frank, but grew up in Coventry, where her father rose to become Coventry's assistant postmaster. She would later be awarded the Freedom of the City in 1999. She was the only one of the family's three children to pass the 11-plus exam, and started at Chiswick Girls' grammar school in West London, before attending Coundon Court School in Coventry, which at that time was a girls' comprehensive school and one of the very first comprehensives. She then studied at Trevelyan College, Durham University, reading sociology and anthropology, joining the Labour Party in her first year. She worked for then Labour MP Tony Benn in London and American writer Alvin Toffler in New York, moving to the United States with her then boyfriend and studying for a PhD in political science at the University of Iowa on the effec...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=29037