Liberal Party

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...

He supported the Whig Party . These party sympathies were cemented through his friendship with Byron , an ardent Whig.

Her predecessors had argued that it was impossible for two women to oversee all education of girls in London (while boys had forty-seven men attending to their interests). Nevertheless HM , flying her stripes with...

The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...

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...

QV 's 1837-1901 reign was the longest of any British monarch. By taking a dedicated and active role in the rule of her country—despite her assertion that I never interfere in politics—she helped...

In the light of the First World War and its aftermath, ASS 's latent interest in politics came to life, taking the form of a desire to serve the League of Nations (whose later fall...

MBL 's anonymous Sir Edward Grey, K. G. (a Liberal and then Foreign Secretary, later first Viscount Grey of Fallodon ), 1915, is in 2008 ascribed to her in the Bodleian Library but not in...

In 1834 HM published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect...

Having begun as a journalist, AB remained one until the end of his career. In New York at the end of 1911, he sold essays and serials to periodicals ther.. During the first world...

Following the death of her husband , JFLW wrote to Sir Thomas Larcom , hoping he could help secure her a government pension. In his reply, Larcom explained that only the Prime Minister could...

This volume makes its strong impression through the juxtaposition of the pleasures of food, wine, movement, and places with the horrors of human violence and cruelty and the well-meant but often in practice grotesque or...

A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis, a pamphlet in support of Lord Melbourne 's Whigs after his ministry was dismissed in 1834, sold 30,000 copies in six weeks and...

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...

The full speech was printed the following day in Sydney's two prominent daily papers.The issue of Free Selection Before Survey was the central one in the upcoming state election. It was also the main topic...