Women
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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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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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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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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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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.