Women’s suffrage
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Women Petitioners and The Parlament of Women
As part of our Women and Parliament blog series to mark the centenary of the first women gaining the vote…
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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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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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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…