I am not a lady – I am a Member of Parliament
The first female Members of Parliament challenged polite society’s perception of what an MP should look and sound like...
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 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 moreIn 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...
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