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Suffrage

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

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209 Women Photo Exhibition in #Vote100 year of 207 women MPs, 2018-12-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/59
Scope and Contents MPs across party celebrated the 209 Women photo exhibition in Westminster, on December 14th 1918 women voted for the first time and in the same year, the first female MP was elected. Sones speaks to Joanna Cherry QC and the SNP MP for Edinburgh South West. Cherry is a fan of Georgina Markievicz who never took up her seat as an Irish nationalist and suffragist and whose portrait now hangs in Parliament for the first time. Cherry also helped to instigate the legal challenge to Brexit in the...
Dates: 2018-12-14
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209 Women Photo Exhibition in #Vote100 year of 207 women MPs, 2018-12-14

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/60
Scope and Contents

Sones spoke to Yvette Cooper, Andrea Leadsom, Helen Whately, Kate Osamor, Lyn Brown and Marsha de Cordova about the Photo Exhibition

Dates: 2018-12-14
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Audio podcasts for interviews conducted during the Centenary Year of Women in Parliament, 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1
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76 podcast interviews collated for the publication 'When There's a Woman in the Room - #Vote 100 year January 2018 to January 2019' and written with journalists Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother. Sones' focus was primarily on recording interviews with MPs who champion public policy reforms through debates in Westminster Hall or by asking questions at PMQs.

For most podcasts, both 'raw' and 'edited' versions exist.

Dates: 2017-11-15 - 2019-01-31
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Audio podcasts for Women’s Parliamentary Radio, conducted by Boni Sones with contributions by Jackie Ashley, Deborah McGurran and Linda Fairbrother

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA
Scope and Contents The first set of 76 interviews contributed toward Sones’ fourth book which coincided with Vote 100 Year 2018, entitled ‘When There’s a Woman in the Room’ covers a range of issues from the centenary of women’s suffrage to Brexit debates. These interviews also cover issues which have a profound effect of women’s lives and give MPs a chance to discuss openly issues that impact their constituents. The second set of interviews cover May - November 2019 and address a turbulent time in British...
Dates: 2017-11-15 - 2019-11-14
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Cartoons, 1905-04-22 - 1906-11-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 4
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Cartoons on WSC as Liberal and Under-Secretary of State for Colonies; General Election and issues of Chinese Labour and Female suffrage; photos of WSC.

Dates: 1905-04-22 - 1906-11-28
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Cartoons, 1907-09-21 - 1908-05-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 15
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Cartoons of WSC on African Tour, on WSC’s defeat in North West Manchester, on Female Suffrage and Socialism; WSC’s reception in Dundee [Scotland].

Dates: 1907-09-21 - 1908-05-23
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Cartoons, 1909-01-17 - 1910-05-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW I Press 18
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Cartoons of WSC on Tariff Reform, Budget, Navy debate, Unemployment insurance, Female Suffrage, Labour Exchanges, electoral reform (WSC appearing in Parliament in pyjamas); photos of CSC.

Dates: 1909-01-17 - 1910-05-04
Conditions Governing Access: Available as digital surrogates only, to protect the fragile original.
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Correspondence, 1913-02 - 1913-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 1/3/34
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Else Headlam [earlier Else Sonntag] on [?] the death of Emily Davison; John Headlam on subjects including returning from India; Arthur Headlam on subjects including visiting Egypt (7); Sir Charles Waldstein [later Sir Charles Walston] thanking JWHM for his sympathy on the death of his mother; [Geoffrey] Winthrop Young on his resignation [as an Inspector of Secondary Schools]. Other subjects include setting up a fund for the support of Else Headlam's elder...
Dates: 1913-02 - 1913-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence, 1913-01 - 1914-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 1/4/10
Scope and Contents

Includes a statement by Else advocating the suffragette campaign of tax resistance, if amendments to the Franchise Bill were turned down.

Dates: 1913-01 - 1914-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1908, general, 1971-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/101
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Subjects include encounters with suffragettes in Dundee [Scotland], May-June 1908.

Dates: 1971-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1909-11, 1911-10 - 1970-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/103
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Subjects include: the christening of Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; King Edward VII's view of Churchill; encounters with suffragettes, including Hugh Franklyn's attempted attack on Churchill with a dog whip; rail and miners' strikes, 1911. Also includes two letters from Reginald McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, on Clementine Churchill launching the battleship HMS Centurion.

Dates: 1911-10 - 1970-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1912-13, general, 1912-04 - 1968-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/106
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Subjects include Home Rule and a visit to Belfast [Northern Ireland], and women's suffrage, including a copy of Sir Almroth Wright's letter to the Times against suffrage and an original press cutting of Clementine Churchill's response, "Ought not women to be abolished?". Also includes a letter from Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier [later Nellie Romilly].

Dates: 1912-04 - 1968-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Extracts from the Times and other sources relating to the Churchill family: 1912, general, 1970-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/8/105
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: a voyage on the Admiralty yacht the Enchantress in the Mediterranean; women's suffrage, including Sir Almroth Wright's letter to the Times against suffrage and Clementine Churchill's response, "Ought not women to be abolished?".

Dates: 1970-08
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Female MPs #Vote100 Documentary Part One, 2018-04-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/21
Scope and Contents This recording selects soundbites from interviews Parliamentary Radio conducted with women MPs of all political parties about the issues they championed in 2018. We hear from Dame Caroline Spelman, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Harriet Harman, Melanie Onn, Fiona Onasanya, Alison McGovern, Maria Caulfield, Angela Eagle, Sharon Hodgson, Seema Malhotra, Theresa May, Vicky Ford, Helen Whately, Jo Swinson and Lisa Cameron. This recording is a summary of the previous recordings with headlines from each...
Dates: 2018-04-06
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Female MPs #Vote100 Documentary Part Two, 2018-04-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/22
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This recording selects soundbites from interviews Parliamentary Radio conducted with women MPs of all political parties about the issues they championed in 2018. In part two, we hear from Jo Swinson, Sharon Hodgson, Ruth George, Lucy Powell, Maria Miller, Tessa Jowell, Catherine McKinnell, Dame Caroline Spelman, Maggie Throup and Theresa May. This recording is a summary of the previous recordings with headlines from each female MP.

Dates: 2018-04-09
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General suffrage material, 1911 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 2/2/20
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Various flyers, leaflets, membership cards, press cuttings etc, including: service cards of the Votes for Women Fellowship; annual report of the Actresses' Franchise League; programme for the women's march from Edinburgh [Scotland] to London, Nov 1912; issue of the Humanitarian.

Dates: 1911 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Harriet Harman MP #IWD2018, 2018-03-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/11
Scope and Contents The Mother of the House Harriet Harman MP delivered her 2018 International Women's Day speech to a specially convened House of Commons Works of Art Committee Audience in Westminster. Harman is introduced by Alison McGovern MP. Harman begins by thanking McGovern and paying tribute to other female MPs, as well as Helen Pankhurst. Harman discusses the relationship between men and women as she was growing up as a woman. Harman talks about feeling out of place and seeing the ranks of men in grey...
Dates: 2018-03-06
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Home Office, 1910 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 12
Scope and Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHAR 12: THE HOME OFFICE: GENERAL The Home Office papers contain correspondence, printed material and papers which were created or accumulated as a result of WSC's activities as Home Secretary. The papers have been arranged into correspondence and subject-based files. The Home Office papers form a departmental sub-class of the official class of the Chartwell Papers which was divided according to the various offices held by WSC. Files containing varying numbers of items were...
Dates: 1910 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Interview with Dr Lisa Cameron MP and Jo Swinson MP on #Vote100 whilst looking at the Suffragette displays in Parliament, 2018-02-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/9
Scope and Contents Cameron and Swinson look at five important tributes to the suffragette women. They begin by the grill in Central Lobby, Cameron reads the plaque regarding women gaining the vote. Cameron discusses what the suffragettes did and the impact the movement still has on her, Cameron was the first SNP female MP in her constituency. Sones asks whether the SNP have enough women, Cameron says that they do not and that there is much more to do. Swinson discusses what the Liberal Democrats have been...
Dates: 2018-02-01
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Interview with Vicky Ford MP: #AskHerToStand, Proxy Voting, Brexit White Paper and on her Prime Minister Theresa May, 2018-07-19

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/SOBA 1/39
Scope and Contents Ford, Conservative MP for Chelmsford, chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the House of Commons, this week with others she laid a wreath at the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst to commemorate Pankhurst's birthday. Ford had been attending Pankhurst parties and she is part of a movement which is encouraging women from all parties to come forward and stand for parliament with the campaign group #AskHerToStand. Sones asks about the week's events in Westminster as the government got...
Dates: 2018-07-19
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Issues of Britannia, official newsletter of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1915 - 1917

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/HDLM 2/2/18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Includes Else's diaries (in German) and account books and papers relating to the suffragette movement.

Dates: 1915 - 1917
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letter from Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) to the Editor of 'The Times', 1890 - 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/524
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A protest against the tone of a leader on the female suffrage demonstration

Dates: 1890 - 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Literary: Articles by WSC for the Strand Magazine., 1931

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/301
Scope and Contents Includes research notes, proofs and cuttings relating to various articles: notes by Professor F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] predicting scientific and technical advances over the following 50 years; "Humours of electioneering" on WSC's experience of local elections and the suffragettes; an article on King Alfonso XIII of Spain (including newspaper cuttings on the King's death); an article about Lord Balfour (including an obituary of Balfour); "Cartoons and Cartoonists" on WSC's...
Dates: 1931
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: Correspondence and notes., 04 Feb 1909 - 19 Jul 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 21/12
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: David Lloyd George on his and WSC's opposition to the naval building programme; Moreton Frewen on Bank of England policy and the issuing of 10 shilling notes; Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] , Prime Minister and Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton and Robert Milnes] objecting to a speech by WSC in which he forecast a dissolution of Parliament if the House of Lords proposed amendments to the 1909 [People's] Budget.Also includes press cuttings on speeches...
Dates: 04 Feb 1909 - 19 Jul 1909
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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Official: Cabinet: papers 81 to 100., Feb 1927 - Mar 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/156
Scope and Contents Includes papers by various individuals on various subjects including: Sir William Joynson-Hicks [later Lord Brentford], Home Secretary, Lord Eustace Percy, President of the Board of Education, 1st Lord Cave, Lord Chancellor and [1st] Lord Cecil [of Chelwood] on equal franchise and the effect of the enfranchisement of more women; a report by John Davidson, Chairman of the Unionist Party, on the distribution of female electors; notes of a deputation to Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on equal...
Dates: Feb 1927 - Mar 1927
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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