Liberal Party

EP was violently attacked by a group of young Liberal s after an Independent Labour Party victory in Mid-Devon; she later learned that a local Conservative had been killed in the mélee.

EP opens her piece by reference to the Representation of the People Act of December 1884, and the strong popular support on that occasion for an amendment which would have included women in the electorate...

The magistrate sentenced eleven women (ten arrested outside parliament and one, Sylvia Pankhurst , arrested at the court) to two months in Holloway Prison's second division (which at this time held convicted criminals, while...

ER 's father was the sixth William Rathbone in a Lancashire family which was Quaker , Unitarian , Liberal and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking...

Opponents of ER 's plans included members of the Conservative , Liberal , and Labour parties, though the Independent Labour Party gave the plans its official support in 1926. In 1925 some members of the...

Up until 1912, the NUWSS had been associated with the Liberal Party ; however, the Liberals' refusal to consider women's suffrage and the Labour Party 's recent concern for it caused the society to change...

UDC activities played an important role in the decline of the Liberal Party and the rise of the Labour Party : Joining the UDC became a sort of half-way house between leaving the Liberals and...

But she moves on from celebration to warning: the human race is fallen, and a ruler needs to guard against ambition (This second Paradise, oh hazard not), faction, and rebellion (imaged as...

Henrietta Mendl (later GHS ) campaigned for the Liberals before the general election held on 7 February, in which her brother-in-law Sigi Mendl was standing for the Liberals at Stockton-on-Tees.

GHS involved herself with the Liberal Party in about 1906, and the Women's Social and Political Union soon afterwards. She worked with the Pankhursts and militant suffragettes. During World War One, prejudice against her husband's...

ES enjoyed the comforts of upper-middle-class life, in an English and presumably white family. Her father had Protestant (French Huguenot) roots. She grew up influenced by Whig principles. Shirreff confirmed her commitment to Christianity while...

The book charts the gradual, up-and-down, always painful but inexorable self-emancipation of these children. Even the naturally conformist Catharine, still living with her parents at the end of the book, is by then much involved...

When CS first returned to dramatic work after her marriage it was as a collaborator on animated tableaux illustrating a political version of Mary had a Little Lamb (chosen for its connection with the woollen...

Living at Minchinhampton opened Smedley's eyes to the poverty and deprivation prevalent in the English countryside, and from a moderate Conservative she became an active Liberal supporter. The Pageant of Progress, which charted the...

Amalia Maria Christina (Bates) Waddington , MS 's mother, came from a large, talented and gay family, with a habit of laughter and a determination not to lose touch with each other. Amalia was...