House of Commons

EPL led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons to protest Asquith 's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce.

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...

Over the course of his lifetime, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence served in the House of Commons for eighteen years and in the House of Lords for sixteen. He became the Secretary of State for India and for...

EPL and her husband dedicated their first issue to the brave women who to-day are fighting for freedom: to the noble women who all down the ages kept the flag flying and looked forward to...

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...

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

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...

The final shape of the bill constituted a particular triumph for Rathbone. Though comparatively liberal, the Beveridge Plan was based on the paradigm of the male breadwinner and the dependent wife. For example, it...

She ran this last time because she believed that the House of Commons still needed a strong voice to further family allowances and measures for refugees. Also, she wrote that there were too few women...

During her parliamentary career, ER spoke frequently in the House of Commons on many issues: family allowances, the franchise and women's suffrage, foreign policy, and war, along with many specific pieces of legislation. All her...

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].

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.