Themes: Women
Five Liberal women and politics
Analysis of the influence of five leading women in the Liberal Party in the early twentieth century.
Liberalism and the Gladstone salon
Review of Phyllis Weliver, Mary Gladstone and the Victorian Salon: Music, Literature, Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Women in politics
Review of J. Gottlieb and R. Toye (eds.), The Aftermath of Suffrage: Women, Gender, and Politics in Britain, 1918–1945 (Macmillan, 2013).
Votes for Women (2)
Review of Diane Atkinson, Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes (Bloomsbury, 2018); Jane Robinson, Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote (Doubleday, 2018).
Votes for Women (1)
Report of the conference fringe meeting, 9 March 2018, with Krista Cowman and Jo Swinson MP; chair: Elizabeth Jewkes.
Margot in wartime
Review of Anne de Courcy, Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912–1916 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2015).
‘Women who wish for political enfranchisement should say so’
A commemoration the 1866 petition for women’s suffrage, written by the Liberals Helen Taylor and Barbara Bodichon.
Madam Mayor
The first wave of Liberal women in local government leadership 1918–1939.
Women and the Liberal Democrats
Review of Elizabeth Evans, Gender and the Liberal Democrats – Representing Women? (Manchester University Press, 2011).