Women
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Madam Mayor
The first wave of Liberal women in local government leadership 1918–1939.
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Women and the Liberal Democrats
Review of Elizabeth Evans, Gender and the Liberal Democrats – Representing Women? (Manchester University Press, 2011).
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‘Not so much a question of greatness’
Review of Sheila Gooddie, Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).
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Women and the Liberal Democrats
Review of Dr Elizabeth Evans, Gender and the Liberal Democrats – Representing Women? (Manchester University Press, 2011)
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Mothers of Liberty
How modern Liberalism was made by women. Report of a Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference, 22 September 2012, on the role of women in Liberalism and the Liberal Party. Speakers: Helen McCabe, Jane Bonham-Carter, Jo Swinson; Chair Lynn Featherstone
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Mothers of liberty: how modern liberalism was made by women
Thanks to their exclusion from the right to vote and to stand for Parliament before 1918, the role of women in Liberal history is often overlooked. Yet many women played crucial roles, from the earliest days of Liberal history, as organisers, campaigners and theorists. This meeting analysed and celebrated the importance of women to the…
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‘The only being who elects without voting, governs without law’
Review of K. D. Reynolds, Aristrocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain (Oxford University Press, 1998).
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Report: The struggle for women’s rights
Report of LDHG meeting of March 1998, with Shirley Williams and Johanna Alberti.
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Welsh women Liberals
It was not just Lloyd George’s daughters …