House of Commons

The original book and its successor sold extremely well, and the prayers became widely used. But a rude review in the Daily Telegraph led to questions in the House of Commons , particularly about a...

HB 's high standing with parents and generations of children in Britain, Europe, the USA, and the British Commonwealth began to be shaken by allegations of racism while she was still alive, though she found...

This novel was mentioned in the House of Commons debates concerning gender equity in pay: the Labour MP George Lansbury commended it as an extraordinary book.

Dinah Mulock contributed to the Cornhill a female perspective on parliamentary debate in The House : ladies' gallery.

A couple of years after this BH began a steady flow of letters to the Times on the topic of women's suffrage: the last of these, written on 2 February 1927, was the plea or...

The Times printed a letter from FD about the rejection of a suffrage bill by the House of Commons on 30 April, arguing that women must support only politicians who commit themselves in writing to...

Ten days later the Public Advertiser printed his letter of 13 March to Lord Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool) , President of the Board of Trade, offering material for the committee investigating the slave trade (which...

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...

On the day that Parliament reconvened, EPL was among the eleven suffragists famously arrested for staging a demonstration for female suffrage at the House of Commons .

The Bristol riots in favour of electoral reform (and their savage suppression) helped to arouse a deep interest in MC in the welfare of the poor and uneducated.

She ran this last time because she believed that the House of Commons still needed a strong voice to further family allowances and measures for refugees. Also, she wrote that there were too few women...

MGF was acutely aware of the potential represented by members of parliament, as is shown in her initiative in founding the Speaker's Conference on Electoral Reform in 1916, to bring together MPs who were prepared...

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...

EPL led a deputation of suffragists to the House of Commons to press the issue of female suffrage on Prime Minister Asquith , who had neglected the subject in his King's speech at the opening...

EPL led a deputation of more than 200 women to the House of Commons to protest Asquith 's proposed Reform or Manhood Suffrage Bill. On the way some suffragists began breaking windows, ending the militancy truce.