A guest post from UK Vote 100 volunteer Oonagh Gay to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the election of Nancy … More
Category: House of Commons
Selina Cooper: The Story of a Working Class Suffragist
We are delighted to present this guest blog on Selina Cooper, a working class suffragist from Lancashire, who became an … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
Ancient Suffragettes?
Guest post by Professor Barbara Goff What can students of ancient Greece and Rome do to mark the centenary of … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
