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Barbara is also a member of the British-American Parliamentary Group, the Fabian Society Research Committee, the Socialist Environmental Research Association, Liberty and Charter 88. While many of her areas of concern have led to numerous official positions, Barbara has other interests, including Scrabble, photography and Star Trek. As a former art student, Barbara is fascinated by the work of Johannes Itten, the colour theorist who taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, from 1919 to 1923. Harnessing this interest to assist Labour, Barbara Follett pioneered presentation training in the Labour Party, teaching senior Labour figures the science of colour and some of the requirements of a TV and fashion conscious age.
So closely associated was she with this smartening-up of Labour that it has been called e"Follettinge". With husband, Ken, Barbara has helped raise substantial funds for the Labour Party. If somebody ever devises a way to make Scrabble or Star Trek work for the Labour Party, we can be sure Barbara Follett will be guiding the operation, while still finding as much time as possible for her and Ken to spend with their five children – Kim, Jann, Marie-Claire, Adam and Emanuele – and six grandchildren – Alexandra, Clementine, Neo, Django, Rose Charlotte and Coco. Barbara Follett MP and family
In 1923, typewriters were hardly a childO’s plaything, but to those following the family of critic and editor Wilson Follett, it was a grand educational experiment. HeH’d already written of his daughter Barbara in Harper ’s, describing a girl who by the age of three was consumed with letters and words. I“She was always seeing A ’s in the gables of houses and HS’s in football goalposts,D” he recalled. One day sheR’d wandered into WilsonH’s office and discovered his typewriter.
