Women
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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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John Stuart Mill on votes for women
'We ought not to deny to them, what we are conceding to everybody else' – House of Commons, 20 May 1867
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Women’s Liberal Federation
The Women's Liberal Federation was formed between 1886 and 1887 under the presidency of Gladstone's daughter, Catherine and by the turn of the century, the organisation had around 60,000 members and almost 500 local branches.
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Liberals and women
When the Victorian women's movement emerged in the 1850s and 1860s it attracted women from Liberal families such as Barbara Leigh Smith who had been associated with Liberal crusades for temperance, anti-slavery and the repeal of the Corn Laws. Feminist achievements later in the century owed much to Liberals, notably Josephine Butler's campaign to repeal…
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The struggle for women’s rights
What did the Party and its predecessors achieve for women’s rights, from the suffragettes onwards?
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Liberal heroines
Report of Liberal Democrat History Group meeting of March 2003, with Baroness Liz Barker and Diana Wallis MEP
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Welsh women Liberals
It was not just Lloyd George’s daughters …
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The role of women in merger
A personal view of women in Alliance politics.
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From WLF to WLD: Liberal womens grassroots campaigning
The evolution of the Womens Liberal Federation into Women Liberal Democrats.