At this early point in the war, the government relied on volunteer groups to administer the separation allowance programme. In Liverpool, the SSFA was run by Rathbone and a network of the city's suffragists and...
politics
Eleanor Rathbone
One conservative point in ER
's outlook at this time was her willingness to allow pressure for equal pay to slacken. As Johanna Alberti
comments, Rathbone believed men in the armed forces were making a...
politics
Eleanor Rathbone
Johanna Alberti
calls this speech one of the most impassioned speeches of [ER
's] time as an MP on a question which she thought about day and night.
