Herbert Henry Asquith

Standard Name: Asquith, Herbert Henry
Used Form: Lord Asquith
Used Form: Prime Minister Asquith

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politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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...
politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
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.
Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann.
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Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
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politics Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
By this date the prospects for female enfranchisement looked more promising than ever before: Parliament was considering the Conciliation Bill, which would allow property-owning women and wives of electors to vote. While the WSPU found...
politics Margaret Kennedy
MK 's marriage to a former secretary for the Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1909-1916) solidified her allegiance to the Liberal party, though she never took an active role in it. (Asquith's term was...
politics Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
Margaret Haig Mackworth (later MHVR ) slipped through a police barricade to confront Prime Minister Herbert Asquith about women's suffrage as he was being driven off in his car.
Eoff, Shirley. Viscountess Rhondda: Equalitarian Feminist. Ohio State University Press.
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politics Marie Belloc Lowndes
The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith 's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country...
politics Constance Lytton
CLtook the plunge, not only of joining the WSPU , but also of volunteering to be one of the next deputation to the Prime Minister (Herbert Henry Asquith ), which would in all...
politics Constance Lytton
CL was arrested and imprisoned in Holloway for refusing to be turned back by the police as one of a deputation to the Prime Minister .
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(25 November 1909): 4
politics Violet Trefusis
She later stated that the experience gave us the momentary thrill of being behind the scenes, though, of course, we saw nothing, not even the dumpy, grumpy figure of the Prime Minister .
Trefusis, Violet, and Philippe Jullian. Don’t Look Round. Hutchinson.
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politics Dora Marsden
Following her split with the WSPU , DM considered joining the Women's Freedom League or the Fabian Society , but instead began to plan for a radical feminist journal that would stimulate discussion of diverse...
politics Mary Augusta Ward
MAW persuaded Prime Minister Asquith to reverse his support of women's suffrage; the militant suffrage campaign followed on the realisation of political stalemate that followed.
Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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Textual Production Iris Tree
IT was writing poetry by the age of ten, exchanging original verses with Nancy Cunard , who went to day-school with her. By twelve she was impressing future Prime Minister Asquith , who had read...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Tennant
The story begins a couple of years before the first world war, with the hostile relationship between the author's grandmother, Pamela, the first Lady Glenconner (a much-quoted hostess and society wit), and Pamela's sister-in-law Margot (Tennant) Asquith
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Constance Lytton
After her release, her account of her continuing campaign both to publicise the suffrage demands and to effect reform of prisons is merged in an account of events on the broader suffrage front: the Conciliation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Viola Tree
VT 's autobiography incorporates diary entries, letters written and received while she studied singing in Milan, and personal memories. I print these letters now, she wrote, partly for my own edification, and partly, I...

Timeline

27 January 1913: The Cabinet decided to withdraw the Franchise...

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27 January 1913

The Cabinet decided to withdraw the Franchise Bill which had been introduced in the House of Commons three days previously.

26 May 1915: Herbert Henry Asquith formed a wartime Coalition...

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26 May 1915

Herbert Henry Asquith formed a wartime Coalition government.

7 December 1916: Two days after Asquith resigned from the...

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7 December 1916

Two days after Asquith resigned from the leadership of the British wartime coalition government, David Lloyd George became Prime Minister.

14 December 1918: The post-war general election (sometimes...

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14 December 1918

The post-war general election (sometimes called the coupon election) was the first in which some British women (those over thirty with a property qualification of their own or their husband's) voted.

January 1921: Prime Minister David Lloyd George gave official...

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January 1921

Prime Minister David Lloyd George gave official sanction to a policy of reprisals in Ireland which Asquith had denounced only two months earlier as a hellish policy.

12 October 2015: The film Suffragette opened at the London...

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12 October 2015

The filmSuffragette opened at the London Film Festival, written by Abi Morgan and directed by Sarah Gavron .

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