House of Commons

FPC was concerned about women's material conditions as well as formal rights. She laboured to obtain protection for battered women: an opponent in other contexts of flogging, she believed that the only effective remedy for...

JFLW was no democrat, but an ardent Irish nationalist (as was her future husband). She was deeply discouraged by the failure of the 1848 uprising. She was supportive of the Young Irelanders and published in...

The militancy of the suffragists changed from being mostly symbolic to being actually embattled on 29 June 1909. That day Emmeline Pankhurst and her deputation were arrested for refusing to leave the premises at the...

The next year she began to pursue legislation personally, asking Frederick Elliot to draft a bill for her and consulting influential connections. Introduced into the House of Lords , her bill was countered in the...

GHS 's first suffrage meeting, in fact, became a deputation heading for the House of Commons , where it was met by violence. She dreamed about the event that night and joined the WSPU next...

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.

CC took part in the rush on the House of Commons led by Christabel Pankhurst . She was then arrested and sentenced to time in prison, which she served at Holloway Gaol , becoming the...

ES spent a night in a police-station cell en route for another sojourn in Holloway , having been arrested along with Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Lady Sybil Smith outside the House of Commons .

About half of the seventy-three Sinn Fein members who were elected were still imprisoned. Sinn Féin boycotted the House of Commons and formed the republican parliament Dail Eireann in Dublin.

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 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...

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...

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...