Women and Parliament

Duchesses in the Gallery: women watching the eighteenth-century House of Commons

Paul Seaward

May 31, 2018

This month’s installment of our ‘Women and Parliament’ blog series comes from the HPT’s Dr Paul Seaward, who is currently…
Women Petitioners and The Parlament of Women

larminiev

April 17, 2018

As part of our Women and Parliament blog series to mark the centenary of the first women gaining the vote…
‘A little door to get in, and a great crowd without’: how to get elected to Parliament in early Georgian Britain

Charles Littleton

April 4, 2018

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, is still renowned as a poet, commentator on Ottoman society, from when she accompanied her husband…
Women MPs in the 1990s

Emma Peplow

March 27, 2018

This month’s blog for the Women and Parliament series as part of our activities in celebration of the centenary of…
The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure bill

Emma Peplow

February 6, 2018

This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of…
Women and Parliament in the Fifteenth Century

Simon Payling

January 16, 2018

2018 is the centennial anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 under the terms of which, for the…
Votes for Women and the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17

History of Parliament

January 18, 2017

January 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17, which first sat in October 1916…
The Eligibility of Constance Markievicz

History of Parliament

December 14, 2015

On 14th December 1918, Countess Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) became the first woman to be elected to the UK Parliament, but…
‘Horsham is Lady Irwin’s Borough’: the power of the 18th Century political widow

History of Parliament

April 29, 2015

We continue our series on election campaigning through the centuries today, with an example of the power aristocratic women could…
Eleanor de Montfort, countess of Leicester (b. c. 1215-d. c. 1275): A countess and a rebel

History of Parliament

April 7, 2015

Continuing our ongoing series celebrating the anniversaries of Magna Carta and Simon de Montfort’s Parliament, this week’s guest blogpost looks…
Parliaments, Politics and People seminar: Alice Ferron, ‘The widow’s peak: early Stuart female voices of authority in Parliament.’

History of Parliament

December 2, 2014

Alice Ferron, a final year PhD student at University College, London reports back on her paper at the last ‘Parliaments,…
Nancy Astor: the first female MP in the House of Commons

Kathryn Rix

May 2, 2014

Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the Victorian Commons, discusses the political career of the first female MP to sit…

Women and Parliament

Duchesses in the Gallery: women watching the eighteenth-century House of Commons

Women Petitioners and The Parlament of Women

‘A little door to get in, and a great crowd without’: how to get elected to Parliament in early Georgian Britain

Women MPs in the 1990s

Women and Parliament in the Fifteenth Century

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