House of Commons

The Monster Petition against parliamentary grants to royal personages was presented to the House of Commons , AB having organized signature collection the previous year.

When the House of Commons first debated the extermination of the Jews and other despised minorities in Germany and conquered nations, ER urged Britain to secure safety for refugees in neutral states.

The WFL was against violence or damage to property or individual politicians. They organized a protest in which a woman chained herself to the grille of the House of Commons Ladies' Gallery, and they favoured...

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...

In March 1935 ER also spoke in the House about the importance of reserved places for women on Indian Provincial Councils, and against a plan which would have required female potential voters to apply to...

The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons : it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield , the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee , Lady Cynthia Moseley

With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT attended sessions in the British House of Commons and House of Lords disguised as a Turkish gentleman.

She remained a staunch feminist and patriot. As she had recognized two decades earlier, times of war did allow for social change and improvement, despite the extensive, brutal devastation of armed conflict. On 20 March...

The final shape of the bill constituted a particular triumph for Rathbone. Though comparatively liberal, the Beveridge Plan was based on the paradigm of the male breadwinner and the dependent wife. For example, it...

EL met Charles Bradlaugh after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer. She made three contributions to the Election Fund set up to...

On the day that Parliament reconvened, EPL was among the eleven suffragists famously arrested for staging a demonstration for female suffrage at the House of Commons .

The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC in the welfare of the poor and uneducated.

She ran this last time because she believed that the House of Commons still needed a strong voice to further family allowances and measures for refugees. Also, she wrote that there were too few women...

MGF was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared...

EPL led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith , who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening...