Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Margaret Ashton , a Manchester cousin, resigned from the Liberal party over the issue of suffrage in 1906. Two years later she became the first woman elected to the Manchester City Council . She was...

Courtney and Royden served together as executive members of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) , of which in 1911 Courtney became secretary. They also worked together as vice-chairs for the Women's International League (WIL)

KEI was elected as Women's International League Chair at the Annual Council meeting held in London.

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) elected EPL president; she held this position for nine years, after which she stepped down and became vice-president.

KEI took on the Honorary Secretaryship of the Women's International League at a divisive Annual Council Meeting at which the WIL Chair, Honorary Secretary, and Honorary Treasurer all resigned.

Members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Executive Committee elected KEI and Barbara Duncan Harris to Co-Presidency in Europe of the Peoples' Mandate to Governments .

At the triennial international congress of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom held in Luhacovice, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), KEI was elected as one of three International Vice-Chairs.

The Women's International League headquarters in London suffered damage in an air raid, and at KEI 's invitation was moved to her house, Portway, at St Mary Bourne in Hampshire.

Though she had not attended the Women's International Congress because of prohibitions on travel in the North Sea, MR became the vice-president of the Women's International League (WIL) .

MR succeeded Helena Swanwick in the position of chairman of the Women's International League (WIL) .

Kathleen Royds (later Innes) moved to London to become office secretary of the Women's International League , British Section.

EPL became the treasurer of the newly-established British branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) . She held this position until 1922.

KEI was elected Vice-Chair of the Women's International League , British Section; she remained in this position until 1934.

She and her husband probably managed to get there because they came by ship from America, not from Britain, whose authorities were blocking all sea travel. Only two other British women were permitted to attend...

EPL firmly believed that the Treaty of Versailles was doing more harm than good to Europe's attempts to recover from war. Her foresight as to its effects comes over strongly in her autobiography, published in...