Women and Parliament
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The First Woman Cabinet Minister: Margaret Bondfield, 1873- 1953
In this new blog for our ‘Women and Parliament’ series, Dr Paula Bartley gives an overview of the political career…
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‘I am a political animal, but I am not a politician’: Leah Manning as a sponsored parliamentary candidate in the 1930s.
Next up in the Women and Parliament series we hear from Dr James Parker of the University of Exeter. He…
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Nancy Astor: A Mother in the House
Last week we heard about the Father or ‘Grand Old Man’ of the Long Parliament, so this week we have…
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Hansard at Huddersfield: Making democracy more searchable
Today’s post is a guest blog from Lesley Jeffries of the University of Huddersfield. Lesley explains the Hansard at Huddersfield…
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Ellen Wilkinson’s search for social justice in 1936
As #WomensHistoryMonth draws to a close we hear from guest blogger Laura Beers, Associate Professor of History at American University,…
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Electoral Firsts in the 1918 Election: Event Review
Today we hear from our undergraduate intern from the History department at Goldsmiths College, University of London, Matthew Anderson. For…
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The politics of the royal bedchamber: what The Favourite does (and does not) tell us about party, Parliament and the court of Queen Anne
In this latest blog for the Georgian Lords, Dr Charles Littleton offers some insights into the political background of the…
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Review of the Year 2018
What a year it’s been! After all of the staff changes at the end of 2017 we started the new…
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Reflections on the Vote 100 project and the Lady Astor Statue project #Astor100
The final installment for the Women and Parliament blog series in 2018 is rather appropriately written by Linda Gilroy, former…
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A night in Parliament: Militant Suffragettes and Parliament
We are delighted to post this guest blog in our Women and Parliament series from one of the public historians…