Women and Parliament
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Women MPs in the 1990s
This month’s blog for the Women and Parliament series as part of our activities in celebration of the centenary of…
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A medieval MP’s Valentine’s Day Letters
Dr Hannes Kleineke of the 1422-1504 Commons explains how the commercial holiday we now recognise as St Valentine’s Day was…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure bill
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
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Women and Parliament in the Fifteenth Century
2018 is the centennial anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 under the terms of which, for the…
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Votes for Women and the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17
January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17, which first sat in October 1916…
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The Eligibility of Constance Markievicz
On 14th December 1918, Countess Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) became the first woman to be elected to the UK Parliament, but…
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‘Horsham is Lady Irwin’s Borough’: the power of the 18th Century political widow
We continue our series on election campaigning through the centuries today, with an example of the power aristocratic women could…
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Eleanor de Montfort, countess of Leicester (b. c. 1215-d. c. 1275): A countess and a rebel
Continuing our ongoing series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, this week’s guest blogpost looks…
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Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Alice Ferron, ‘The widow’s peak: early Stuart female voices of authority in Parliament.’
Alice Ferron, a final year PhD student at University College, London reports back on her paper at the last ‘Parliaments,…
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Nancy Astor: the first female MP in the House of Commons
Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Victorian Commons, discusses the political career of the first female MP to sit…
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Women in Democracy during the 1970s and 1980s
Over the past few days Parliament Week has been in full swing and events have taken place around the country…