House of Commons

In connection with the suffragist rush on the House of Commons on the second of these days, CL , though not yet a militant, involved herself in behind-the-scenes support for the active demonstrators.

The intellectual influence of CM 's History was particularly important for the generation of American patriots who shaped the United States. It was also felt to be relevant in pre-revolutionary France, particularly...

Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM again became involved politically when the House of Commons was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8...

William, Earl Cowper , husband of MCC , was examined before a committee of the House of Commons on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies. In 1722 the actual Jacobite conspirator Christopher Layer , while under investigation...

In 1866 JSM presented to the House of Commons with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , and Emily Davies , and signed by...

In 1867 Mill presented the House with a second petition in support of women's suffrage, signed by more than twice as many women as the first. The same year he moved to amend the...

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).

SN tried to attend a debate on the subject of India at the House of Commons in London, but was refused entry because women were not allowed to sit in the Special Gallery.

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 London, Ouida took a suite at her old home, the Langham Hotel , where in one night she entertained Robert Browning , Oscar Wilde , Robert Lytton , and Lord Ronald Gower ...

A permanent, visible memorial to SP has proved a contentious issue. Emmeline and Christabel have a statue and plaque near the House of Commons ; Sylvia was felt to be too pacifist and too socialist...

After the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill enfranchising women over thirty, EP visited Petrograd (now once again St Petersburg) and Moscow.

During the years 1987-92 and again in 1997, Jacqueline Mulhallen toured England and Ireland with a one-woman show about SP (at first intended just for schools in London's East End). The performance was accompanied by...

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 .

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...