Liberal Party

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 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...

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...

When the Liberal Party came to power in Britain in 1906 he judged its government corrupt. He disapproved of its handling of strikes by workers between 1910 and 1912, and even more of its...

RK suffered a series of blows as he grew older which left him increasingly bitter and withdrawn. He put aside his differences with the Liberal government in 1914 in order to assist the national effort...

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...

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...

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...

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...