- 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.
