House of Commons

During a House of Commons debate on Indian rule, ER asserted that the only safeguard against [Indian women's] oppression was to give the women themselves a say.

In the House of Commons , ER opposed legislation that lowered married women's health insurance benefits. Wives received less than single women, while both groups received and contributed less than men.

In the House of Commons , ER spoke against the government's Incitement to Disaffection Bill, which, she declared, would tear a hole in British liberties through which an elephant may get through [sic].

MS attended the House of Commons to hear the abortive attempt to get a second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill.

Strongly anti-armament, LOM persuaded her Liberal MP husband, Philip Morrell , to speak in the House of Commons against Britain's entry into the coming war (later called the Great War, later still World War I).

After the First World War broke out in August 1914, SB sided with Flora Annie Steel in a Women Writers' Suffrage League dispute over supporting the war. Benson and Steel believed in supporting the war...

In the same month that the House of Commons was officially informed of the Nazi holocaust of Jews and other minorities, ER began to pressure the government for a formal debate on the catastrophe.

RS volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor , the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the 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...

The Times printed a letter from FD about the rejection of a suffrage bill by the House of Commons on 30 April, arguing that women must support only politicians who commit themselves in writing to...

Ten days later the Public Advertiser printed his letter of 13 March to Lord Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool) , President of the Board of Trade, offering material for the committee investigating the slave trade (which...

Dinah Mulock contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House : ladies' gallery.

A couple of years after this BH began a steady flow of letters to the Times on the topic of women's suffrage: the last of these, written on 2 February 1927, was the plea or...