House of Lords

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...

RM wrote in The Spectator criticising the House of Lords verdict which acquitted Lord de Clifford of manslaughter after he had killed someone in a road accident.

The volume contains thirty-three poems. Lament of the loyal Irish in 1869, England and Pauperism, and England and Secular Education speak to social and political concerns, while other poems explore the disappointments of...

Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one...

In the copyright row provoked by unauthorised reprints by the Edinburgh publisher Alexander Donaldson , CM began by asking what practices would benefit literature, and concluded that publishers needed to be able to count on...

The Rev. James Curtin , the missionary who had baptised MP , testified to a House of Lords committee that cruelty to slaves was almost unknown in Antigua.

The year after being made a CBE, RR was invited to sit in the House of Lords as a Life Peer; she took the title Baroness Rendell of Babergh .

A passage from the book was read in the House of Lords in 1907, in support of a proposal to build a Channel Tunnel.

MT issued another fighting work at Southampton: a single-sheet Circular sent to the Lords , previous to the Second Reading of the Bill for Ameliorating the Fate of Climbing Boys.

After receiving her title, MHVR was still barred from attending proceedings of the House of Lords . When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was passed in 1919, there was still no progress to admit into...

This prompted Lady Rhondda to call the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act a leaky saucepan.Millicent Garrett Fawcett called this decision simply scandalous.Nancy, Lady Astor , chair of the Consultative Committee of Women's Organizations

A group of upper-class Opposition women caused a politically-angled disturbance at the House of Lords : they included Mary Pendarves (later MD ).

WMCN had little hope she could secure a pardon for a Catholic rebel, but nevertheless she tried. She drummed up support, appeared regularly in the gallery at the House of Lords , organized a petition...

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...

MF founded the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod or GRAS at an evening meeting held in the Moses Room of the House of Lords , Westminster, and hosted by novelist Ruth Rendell