Iris Woodmore is strongly influenced by her suffragette mother. This is Violet Woodmore's story...

Inspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in the summer of 2018 on a guided tour of the Houses of Parliament...

The first female Members of Parliament challenged polite society’s perception of what an MP should look and sound like...

The 1929 general election became known as the Flapper Election because, for the first time, young women in Britain had the right to vote.

In 1918, women under the age of 30 could stand for Parliament despite not yet having the right to vote in an election...

On 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.

On 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?

In 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...

In my novel, Death at Crookham Hall, the fictional Mrs Sybil Siddons becomes the third woman to take a seat in the House of Commons when she wins a by-election in 1920. But who were the first women to enter Parliament...

On 2nd April 1911, the night of the census, Emily Wilding Davison spent the night hiding in the House of Commons inside a broom cupboard...