Category: Women and Parliament

Conferences, Seminars and Events, 17th Century history, Social history, Stuart, Women and Parliament

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, Politics, and People’ seminar. Alice spoke on ‘The widow’s peak: early Stuart female voices of authority in Parliament’… My doctoral research has centered on various strands of censorship in women’s writing in the first half of the early modern period. I am interested in the … Continue reading Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Alice Ferron, ‘The widow’s peak: early Stuart female voices of authority in Parliament.’

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Modern, 20th century history, Social history, Women and Parliament

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 in Parliament, Nancy Astor… Today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Nancy Astor (1879-1964), who occupies a significant place in parliamentary history as the first female MP to take her seat in the House of Commons following the passing of the 1918 Representation … Continue reading Nancy Astor: the first female MP in the House of Commons

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Modern, 20th century history, Oral history, Women and Parliament

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 aimed at inspiring people to get involved in parliamentary democracy. The theme this year is Women in Democracy – celebrating women’s contribution to British political life. As we all know, despite gaining the vote in 1918 we are still some way from gender parity in … Continue reading Women in Democracy during the 1970s and 1980s

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Modern, 19th Century history, 20th century history, Conferences, Seminars and Events, Social history, Women and Parliament

The History of Parliament Annual Lecture 2013 – Baroness Patricia Hollis ‘The Hopes of the Suffragettes: were they realised?’

Today marks the start of Parliament week, the annual programme of events to inspire, engage and connect people with parliamentary democracy. Events and activities will take place all across the country on this year’s theme: ‘women in democracy’. (To find out more see http://www.parliamentweek.org) Our annual lecture, given last week by Baroness Patricia Hollis, was a perfect warm up for this week’s events! If you … Continue reading The History of Parliament Annual Lecture 2013 – Baroness Patricia Hollis ‘The Hopes of the Suffragettes: were they realised?’

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Modern, 20th century history, Oral history, Women and Parliament

Emily Wilding Davison and women in Parliament

Last week saw the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913), who died from her injuries four days after being knocked unconscious by the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby. The Victorian Commons’ Dr. Kathryn Rix went to one of the events held in Parliament last week to mark this anniversary. She writes here about some of the online resources available … Continue reading Emily Wilding Davison and women in Parliament

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Stuart, 17th Century history, Elections, Social history, Women and Parliament

Women at the Polls in the Seventeenth Century

As BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour reveal their ‘Power List’ this morning, Dr Vivienne Larminie shares her recent discovery of two 17th century women who had their voices heard in a more 20th century manner… Researching parliamentary history has its mundane aspects.  A certain amount of systematic trawling through indexes and records is unavoidable; sometimes this is time-consuming and yields few concrete results; even powerful … Continue reading Women at the Polls in the Seventeenth Century

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