Parliament

A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the Church of England had been working for years and which among other details deleted the word obey from women's marriage vows, was rejected by Parliament .

Irene Ward (later Dame Irene) was elected for the Conservatives to the British Parliament , where she remained for thirty-eight of the next forty-two years, making her the longest-serving woman MP.

Physician Edith Summerskill was elected to Parliament as an MP for the Labour Party .

The British Government issued an evacuation notice to be carried out within twenty-four hours; within three days, in fact, a million and a half children, pregnant women, and the blind were moved from their urban...

As a result of the Emergency Powers Act (passed on August 24), the British Government enforced a blackout order: all windows were required to be papered, painted, or otherwise sealed against light, so as not...

The British Government began implementing its wartime National Registration programme, and identity cards were issued as proof of citizenship.

The British Government introduced a point scheme to complement rations.

The National Service Act came before parliament. Through it the British Government instituted conscription for women aged twenty to thirty, making them liable for military service, and lowered the conscription age for men to eighteen.

The Royal Society decided to open its membership to women, and admitted crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale (a pacifist during World War II) as its first female Fellow.

Journalist Barbara Castle was elected a Labour member of the British Parliament , where she served for thirty-four years.

A National Theatre Act was passed by the British Parliament , which allowed the Treasury to contribute towards national theatre costs.

Parliament passed a new Rent Act that deregulated the amount a landlord could charge for rent; this had serious consequences for people living in cheap rented housing.

Judith Hart , Labour candidate and founding member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , was elected to Parliament for Lanarkshire.

The Irish Bernadette Devlin , aged twenty-one, became one of the British Parliament 's youngest-ever elected members.

Parliament passed the Industrial Relations Bill; the Women's Liberation Movement demonstrated against it on the grounds that it was damaging to women.