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National Union of Women Workers
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Eleanor Rathbone | Rathbone and Macadam collaborated on many social and political projects, most with feminist aims. They began by stabilising the Settlement's budget and community programmes. The two then served on the founding committee of the School of Social Studies and Training for Social Work |
politics | Emma Marshall | |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | ES
committed herself to the suffragist cause by joining the WSPU
, after being sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the annual conference of the National Union of Women Workers
at Tunbridge Wells. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press. 52 Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head. 102, 128-9 |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | After the National Union of Women Workers
voted to support female suffrage, MAW
formed a Joint Advisory Committee
to liaise with Parliament
about her social work. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 325 |
politics | Mary Augusta Ward | Her political views continued to create breaches in her previous alliances. In addition to the rift with Somerville College
, she was ousted from the National Union of Women Workers
. Her son Arnold
also... |
Textual Production | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 72 |
Textual Production | Beatrice Webb | This pamphlet was a revised and expanded version of two papers she had given, one at a conference of the National Union of Women Workers
at Nottingham in October 1895, and one before the Fabian Society |
Timeline
1888: A series of annual conferences of working...
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1888
A series of annual conferences of working women began—held in such centres as Aberdeen, Birmingham, and Liverpool—which resulted in the formation in 1895 of the National Union of Women Workers
.
September 1914: Two women's police forces were formed: the...
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September 1914
Two women's police forces were formed: the Women's Police Volunteers
and the Women Patrols
.
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