House of Lords

The parliamentary Committee of Privileges , under the directorship of Lord Birkenhead , reversed its earlier decision and refused Viscountess Rhondda the right to sit as a peeress in the House of Lords .

After receiving her title, MHVR was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords . When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into...

A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords : they included Mary Pendarves (later MD ).

This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan.Millicent Garrett Fawcett called this decision simply scandalous.Nancy, Lady Astor , chair of the Consultative Committee of Women's Organizations

WMCN had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords , organized a petition...

Thomas Noon Talfourd gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN 's husband relented and allowed her to see...

MF founded the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod or GRAS at an evening meeting held in the Moses Room of the House of Lords , Westminster, and hosted by novelist Ruth Rendell

MT issued another fighting work at Southampton: a single-sheet Circular sent to the Lords , previous to the Second Reading of the Bill for Ameliorating the Fate of Climbing Boys.

The year after being made a CBE, RR was invited to sit in the House of Lords as a Life Peer; she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh .

A passage from the book was read in the House of Lords in 1907, in support of a proposal to build a Channel Tunnel.

The Rev. James Curtin , the missionary who had baptised MP , testified to a House of Lords committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua.

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson , CM began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on...

It appears from the only two extant library listings of this tract or broadside (in the New York Public Library and the University of Texas at Austin ) that the title was added in Trench's...