Inspiration for Death at Crookham Hall
Inspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in the summer of 2018 on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament...
Read moreInspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in the summer of 2018 on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament...
Read moreThe first female Members of Parliament challenged polite society’s perception of what an MP should look and sound like...
Read moreThe 1929 general election became known as the Flapper Election because, for the first time, young women in Britain had the right to vote.
Read moreIn 1918, women under the age of 30 could stand for Parliament despite not yet having the right to vote in an election...
Read moreOn 18 November 1910, 300 women marched to the Houses of Parliament. They were met by lines of policemen and crowds of male bystanders who attacked them for the next six hours. The day became known as Black Friday.
Read moreOn 28 October 1908, Muriel Matters and Helen Fox chained themselves to the grille of the Ladies' Gallery of the House of Commons. This protest inspired events in my novel Death at Crookham Hall. But why did the suffragettes hate the Gallery?
Read more100 years ago, on 22 September 1921, Margaret Wintringham became the third woman to be elected as a Member of Parliament. She was the first female British-born MP and the first-ever female Liberal MP.
Read moreNewspaper reports of the force-feeding of suffragettes on hunger strikes caused outrage at the time. Public opinion began to turn in favour of the suffragettes and against the government.
Read moreThe first woman to be commemorated with a statue in Parliament Square was the suffragist campaigner Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett...
Read moreIn 1909, four suffragettes chained themselves to statues in the Palace of Westminster to protest against a law banning disorderly conduct inside the Palace while Parliament was in session...
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