April 1870: Sir Henry Storks was defeated in a by-election...
National or international item
April 1870
Sir Henry Storks
was defeated in a by-election at Newark, owing to agitation by anti-Contagious Diseases Acts activists.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.
117
October 1870: Sir Henry Storks, a supporter of the Contagious...
National or international item
October 1870
Sir Henry Storks
, a supporter of the Contagious Diseases Acts, was defeated in his second by-election of the year, this time in Colchester.
Walkowitz, Judith R. ’We Are Not Beasts of the Field’: Prostitution and the Campaign Against the Contagious Diseases Acts, 1869-1886. University of Rochester, 1974.