Tag Archives: Voice and Vote

Reflections on the Vote 100 project and the Lady Astor Statue project #Astor100

Posted on December 11, 2018 by

The final installment for the Women and Parliament blog series in 2018 is rather appropriately written by Linda Gilroy, former MP for Plymouth Sutton (1997-2010). Linda tells us about an exciting project to raise a statue of the first woman … Continue reading →

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Voice and Vote: behind the scenes

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

This blog looks at how the History of Parliament has been involved behind the scenes with the Voice and Vote exhibition which opened in Westminster Hall last week. Dr. Philip Salmon and Dr. Kathryn Rix of the Victorian Commons project … Continue reading →

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Voice and Vote: Celebrating 100 Years of Votes for Women – a guidebook

Posted on July 3, 2018 by

Dr Paul Seaward is one of the editors of the “Voice & Vote guidebook” to accompany the UK Parliament Vote 100 project‘s landmark exhibition in Westminster Hall. In today’s blog he explains the contents of the book, who contributed to it … Continue reading →

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