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Norah Runge scrapbook. Parliamentary Archives, RUN/1

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

Conservative party, Parliament, politics, women, women mps
Norah Runge scrapbook. Parliamentary Archives, RUN/1

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

Conservative party, Parliament, politics, women, women mps
Norah Runge's election leaflet, 1931. Parliamentary Archives, RUN/1

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

Conservative party, elections, Parliament, politics, women, women mps
Rethinking right wing women , ed. Berthezene and Gottlieb

‘Shy Women Tories’ in the History of Suffrage and Beyond

Guest post by Dr Julie V. Gottlieb (University of Sheffield) It is truly remarkable how so many organisations, institutions, media … More

Conservative party, Parliament, suffrage, women, women's suffrage

When meeting a new woman MP was no longer a rarity for us staff! Recollections of the impact of the May 1997 election

Guest post by Oonagh Gay On 1 May 1997 120 women MPs were elected; exactly double the number elected in … More

Conservative party, elections, Labour party, politics, women mps

‘The lady Liberal agent’

‘The lady Liberal agent’: Bertha Fischer (1875-1920) and Ellen Pocock (1854-1943) Guest post by Kathryn Rix In July 1902 the … More

Conservative party, Liberal party, politics, women
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