House of Commons

This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.

BMC was charmed to see myself in print, but . . . awaited with terror the reviews. She hoped, in fact, that a certain great weekly journal (probably All the Year Round, formerly Household...

Dinah Mulock contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House : ladies' gallery.

She wrote this article at the height of the parliamentary debates on the legal rights of married women. Despite being very ill, CFC was determined to participate in this discourse and give aid to a...

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.

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...

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...

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...

The House of Commons voted to forbid anyone except ordained clergy to preach publicly or to write against church government: a specific target of this vote was KC , and a general target was women.

The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC in the welfare of the poor and uneducated.

After John Profumo resigned from the Cabinet on 4 June 1963 following his detection in a lie to the House of Commons about his relationship with a prostitute, the BBC commissioned BB for a talk...

CB also had a confrontation with George Henry Lewes . She attended the House of Commons , the Chapel Royal , where she saw her hero the Duke of Wellington , and a meeting of...

The book preceded Caroline Norton 's A Voice from the Factories by three years. It includes a dedication to economist and social reformer Michael Thomas Sadler , who fought to improve child labour conditions. Bowles...

An appendix includes extracts from Robert Southey 's essays on factory labour, as well as transcribed interviews with factory labourers and evidence presented to 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.