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 moreIn 1918, women under the age of 30 could stand for Parliament despite not yet having the right to vote in an election...
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 moreOn 2nd April 1911, the night of the census, Emily Wilding Davison spent the night hiding in the House of Commons inside a broom cupboard...
Read moreInspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in 2018 in the Houses of Parliament at the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918. Despite the Act, a third of women still couldn't vote, and the fight for equality was far from over...
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