Eric Evlyn Illsley is a former British Labour politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnsley Central from 1987 until 2011. He was a Labour Party representative until suspended from the party after being charged with false accounting as part of the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal,and then sat as an Independent. When he pleaded guilty to three counts of false accounting on 11 January 2011,he became the first sitting Member of Parliament to be convicted of a criminal offence in the scandal. Illsley resigned from the House of Commons on 8 February 2011,following his conviction,and was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment on 10 February 2011.
James Hood was a Scottish Labour Party politician,who served as a Member of Parliament from 1987 until being defeated in 2015. He represented the Clydesdale constituency until 2005,and the Lanark and Hamilton East constituency thereafter. Hood,a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) trade union official during the miners' strike of 1984–85,remained a backbencher throughout his parliamentary career.
Whinmoor is a residential area of east Leeds,West Yorkshire,England.
Eric Graham Varley,Baron Varley,was a British Labour Party politician and cabinet minister on the right-wing of the party. He was the Member of Parliament for Chesterfield from 1964 to 1984.
Barwick-in-Elmet is a village in West Yorkshire,7 miles (11 km) east of Leeds city centre. It is one of only three places in the area to be explicitly associated with the ancient Romano-British kingdom of Elmet,the others being Scholes-in-Elmet and Sherburn-in-Elmet.
Elmet was a county constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Leeds North East is a constituency which has been represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Fabian Hamilton of the Labour Party.
Elmet and Rothwell is a constituency in West Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since its creation in 2010 by Alec Shelbrooke,a Conservative. In the 2017 general election,Elmet and Rothwell recorded the largest turnout of any seat in West or South Yorkshire,with almost 60,000 electors casting a vote.
Alexander Eadie,known as Alex Eadie,was a Scottish Labour politician.
Mount Saint Mary's School is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Leeds,England.
East Leeds Family Learning Centre was a large Adult Education Centre in Seacroft,Leeds,England. The buildings were originally used as a secondary school,Foxwood School. The school is notable for its use for filming The Beiderbecke Trilogy between 1984 and 1988. Demolition of the buildings began in December 2009 and was completed early in 2010.
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) was an alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported the National Union of Mineworkers during the year-long strike of 1984–1985. By the end of the strike,eleven LGSM groups had emerged in the UK and the London group alone raised £22,500 by 1985 in support.
Ian Lavery is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansbeck since 2010. He served as the Chair of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn from 2017 to 2020 and was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 2002 to 2010. He is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group parliamentary caucus.
Sir Alec Edward Shelbrooke is a British Conservative politician who has been Member of Parliament for Elmet and Rothwell since 2010. He served as Minister of State for Defence Procurement in the Truss ministry from September to October 2022.
Burgon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Norman Harding was an English trade unionist and tenants' leader who worked for the Workers Revolutionary Party whilst living in London. He published the book,Staying Red:Why I Remain a Socialist,in 2005,which detailed his political activities from 1954 to 1985.
Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the UK miners' strike (1984–85),a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
Steve Kemp is a British trade unionist.
Richard Burgon is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds East since 2015. Burgon served as Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Shadow Lord Chancellor in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn from 2016 to 2020.
Foxwood School was a Comprehensive school in Seacroft,Leeds,West Yorkshire,England. It opened in 1956 and closed 40 years later in 1996.
