House of Commons

She was helped with research for this book by Justin McCarthy , a member of parliament who regularly escorted her to the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons to hear debates on Ireland, and...

ER was the object of misogynistic attacks, personal and professional, throughout her parliamentary career. When she was absent from a House of Commons debate in June 1942, someone called A. McLaren commented, I see that...

He was called to the English bar in that year, and began a successful law practice in London. He headed Queen Caroline's defence during her trial for adultery in 1820, and was appointed...

She attended important debates in the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons , and had to read and write for her husband: I grappled with newspapers and Blue-books . . . and learned more...

In gaining her seat she polled more votes than any woman standing for Labour. As some male Labour MPs wore red ties, she wore red shoes in the House of Commons , and was soon...

FS was sent to the United States to defend publicly the White Paper of 1939 in which the British government recommended a limitation on the number of Jews permitted to immigrate to Palestine. Some...

In 1866 JSM presented to the House of Commons with parliament's first major suffrage petition. The petition, drafted by Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon , Jessie Boucherett , and Emily Davies , and signed by...

In 1867 Mill presented the House with a second petition in support of women's suffrage, signed by more than twice as many women as the first. The same year he moved to amend the...

Thomas Noon Talfourd gave notice early in 1837 of a House of Commons motion on this subject, and the Bill was printed. But immediately after this CN 's husband relented and allowed her to see...

In March 1935 ER also spoke in the House about the importance of reserved places for women on Indian Provincial Councils, and against a plan which would have required female potential voters to apply to...

The movement of this bill involved many prominent women in the House of Commons : it had been introduced by Margaret Bondfield , the nation's first female cabinet minister, while Jennie Lee , Lady Cynthia Moseley

With the help of a Turkish diplomat she met while in London, FT attended sessions in the British House of Commons and House of Lords disguised as a Turkish gentleman.

She remained a staunch feminist and patriot. As she had recognized two decades earlier, times of war did allow for social change and improvement, despite the extensive, brutal devastation of armed conflict. On 20 March...

The final shape of the bill constituted a particular triumph for Rathbone. Though comparatively liberal, the Beveridge Plan was based on the paradigm of the male breadwinner and the dependent wife. For example, it...

EL met Charles Bradlaugh after writing to him about a review of her second novel, Donovan, published in his National Reformer. She made three contributions to the Election Fund set up to...