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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Edna Lyall | She was helped with research for this book by Justin McCarthy
, a member of parliament who regularly escorted her to the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons
to hear debates on Ireland, and... |
| Occupation | John Stuart Mill | 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... |
| Occupation | John Stuart Mill | 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. |
| Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons
debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that... |
| Occupation | Henry Peter, Baron Brougham | He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed |
| Occupation | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | 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... |
| Occupation | Freya Stark | 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... |
| Occupation | Mary Agnes Hamilton | 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... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 85 |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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]. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 129 |
| politics | Mary Stott | MS
attended the House of Commons
to hear the abortive attempt to get a second reading of the Anti-Discrimination Bill. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber. 130 |
| politics | Lady Ottoline Morrell | 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). Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux. 195-6 |
| politics | Stella Benson | 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... |
| politics | Eleanor Rathbone | 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. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press. 135 |
| politics | Ray Strachey | RS
volunteered as parliamentary secretary and advisor to Lady Astor
, the first woman Member of Parliament to sit in the House of Commons
. Lady Astor was elected on 1 December 1919. Strachey, Barbara. Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women. Universe Books. 287 |
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14 January 1766: William Pitt appealed to the House of Commons...
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14 January 1766
William Pitt
appealed to the House of Commons
to treat America as a kindly, paternalistic husband would treat a wife.
4 February-13 April 1769: Disputes occurred over John Wilkes's right...
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4 February-13 April 1769
Disputes occurred over John Wilkes
's right to take his seat in the House of Commons
, from which he had been expelled for the first time in 1764.
After March 1770: Following representations by merchants to...
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After March 1770
Following representations by merchants to the House of Commons
, the duties on colonial trade with America imposed in 1767 were repealed—all except that of threepence a pound on tea.
6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...
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6 February 1772
The House of Commons
rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican
belief.
1778: The House of Commons barred women from attending...
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1778
The House of Commons
barred women from attending debates to listen from the gallery, as they had often done until then.
6 April 1780: The Radical cause in Britain was advanced...
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6 April 1780
The Radical cause in Britain was advanced when the House of Commons
passed a motion by John Dunning (later Baron Ashburton)
, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to...
27 February 1782: The House of Commons, on news of the British...
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27 February 1782
The House of Commons
, on news of the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, urged George III
to end the war with the United States.
17 June 1783: Sir Cecil Wray, a maverick independent politician...
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17 June 1783
Sir Cecil Wray
, a maverick independent politician and reformer, presented in the House of Commons
a Quaker petition for the abolition of slavery.
1-2 July 1784: Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought...
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1-2 July 1784
Famine in the Shetland Islands was brought to the attention of the House of Commons
.
5 November 1788-10 March 1789: George III's illness and palpable incapacity...
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5 November 1788-10 March 1789
George III
's illness and palpable incapacity produced the Regency Crisis: the issue was whether or not power would devolve to the Prince of Wales
.
1789: During the year following passage of the...
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1789
During the year following passage of the Slave-Trade Regulation Bill, the House of Commons
postponed until next session a decision about abolition; meanwhile a push for regulation as opposed to abolition was gaining ground.
2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...
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2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).
19 April 1791: Wilberforce's motion to abolish the slave-trade...
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19 April 1791
Wilberforce
's motion to abolish the slave-trade (put on 18 April) was defeated in the House of Commons
.
2 April 1792: William Wilberforce moved once again in the...
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2 April 1792
William Wilberforce moved once again in the House of Commons
for complete abolition of the slave trade. The ensuing all-night debate ended in a victory, 230 votes to 85.
11 May 1792: Fox again proposed in the House of Commons...
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11 May 1792
Fox
again proposed in the House of Commons
that civil rights should be extended to Dissenters
; Burke, who had defended Dissenters in the past, furiously disagreed.
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