Guest post by the Hansard Writing Team On 9 March 1954, four MPs put aside party political differences to present an 80,000-signature petition to Parliament demanding equal pay. Ulster Unionist Patricia Ford, Conservative Irene Ward and Labour MPs Edith Summerskill … Continue reading Women Demand Equal Pay!
Women MPs and House of Commons Select Committees Following the appointment of Harriet Harman as chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Vote 100’s Oonagh Gay investigates the history of women MPs chairing Select Committees and finds some surprising … Continue reading 1957 – A glass ceiling shattered!
Winifred Margaret ‘Winnie’ Ewing MP and the Ewing political dynasty Elected for the Scottish National Party in Hamilton in a by-election on 2 November 1967, Winnie Ewing was the first SNP woman MP. Winnie Ewing was the second MP to … Continue reading 50 years of SNP women in Parliament
We are very pleased to have another blog from Peter Barratt, great grandson of suffragette Alice Hawkins. Peter has been bringing her amazing story to life through talks and, this summer, performances at Edinburgh Festival. Now he gives us an … Continue reading A statue of suffragette Alice Hawkins – we’re almost there!
Guest post by Claire Eustance Earlier in 2017, I was delighted to accept an invitation from the Houses of Parliament Vote 100 project to curate a display on male supporters of women’s suffrage in Parliament. This was a welcome opportunity … Continue reading Suffragettes in Trousers
Guest post by Chloe Bowerbank During my work as an intern for the Citizens project, working with the Vote 100 team in Parliament, I was leafing through the police records kept by Parliament from the time of militant suffragette action. … Continue reading ‘How Long Will It Go On?’ – Sylvia Pankhurst and the Hunger Strike
Guest post by Robin Fell All Marion Wallace-Dunlop wanted to do was ‘Petition the King’; and who knows, if she had been allowed to, we might never have heard of hunger-striking suffragettes. But when she and several of her suffragette … Continue reading Marion Wallace-Dunlop: The First suffragette Hunger Striker
Here at Vote 100 we were delighted to exclusively reveal the cover design for the new young adult suffrage novel ‘Things A Bright Girl Can Do’, and to meet the author Sally Nicholls, who wrote about her visit here in A Rebel’s History of Parliament. We were then keen to find out what an actual young adult thought of it… Guest post by Annabel I am 16 years old, and recently read the book ‘Things a Bright Girl Can Do’ by Sally Nicholls. This book gave a very realistic portrayal of the struggles faced by women during the early 1900s and … Continue reading Book Review: Things a Bright Girl Can Do
Vote 100 was thrilled recently to exclusively reveal the cover design for Sally Nicholls upcoming book about young suffrage campaigners, Things a Bright Girl Can Do. She then came to see us in Parliament, and we were even more excited to … Continue reading A Rebel’s History of Parliament
We at Vote 100 are full of admiration for Peter Barratt’s achievements on behalf of his WSPU great grandmother Alice Hawkins. Not only has he brought her amazing life story to public attention, but his efforts and perseverance have led … Continue reading John Prescott meets Alice Hawkins, suffragette.
UK Vote 100: Looking forward to the centenary of Equal Franchise in 2028 in the UK Parliament 