House of Commons

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...

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...

He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed Queen Caroline's defence during her trial for adultery in 1820, and was appointed...

She attended important debates in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons , and had to read and write for her husband: I grappled with newspapers and Blue-books . . . and learned more...

FS was sent to the United States to defend publicly the White Paper of 1939 in which the British government recommended a limitation on the number of Jews permitted to immigrate to Palestine. Some...

In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons , and was soon...

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...