We are delighted to present this guest blog on Selina Cooper, a working class suffragist from Lancashire, who became an…
Making a stand: Women candidates at the 1918 General Election
The centenary of the 1918 general election in December 2018 was marked by some new research into the seventeen women…
Women and Wales: Achieving Political Power
Our first post of 2019 is a guest post by Oonagh Gay, UK Vote 100 volunteer Inspirational women of Wales…
Honor Balfour, Westminster and a Woman’s voice
Guest post by Helen Langley One of the many highlights of the ‘Voice and Vote’ exhibition was the recreation of…
Ancient Suffragettes?
Guest post by Professor Barbara Goff What can students of ancient Greece and Rome do to mark the centenary of…
“I am here today under the auspices of the Women’s Freedom League”
A Vote100 blog by Bernadette Cahill I traveled specially to Britain in February 2018 to help commemorate the hundred years…
Norah Runge: Rotherhithe, national politics and family crises, 1933 -1935
By Oonagh Gay and Isobel White. Follows Norah Runge MP: An exceptional woman and Norah Runge: Becoming an MP, 1931-1932 Throughout a…
Norah Runge: Becoming an MP, 1931-1932
By Oonagh Gay and Isobel White. Follows Norah Runge MP: An exceptional woman Norah Runge became the Conservative MP for Rotherhithe…
Norah Runge MP: An exceptional woman
Today is the birthday of Norah Runge (27 September 1884 – 6 June 1978), an unsung interwar woman MP. To mark…
The Irish Votes for Women Movement and the tricky relationship with British Suffragists
Today a picture of the first woman elected to the House of Commons, Constance Markievicz, was gifted to the UK…
