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In a new article for @histparl.bsky.social our editor Dr Philip Salmon explores when and how some women could vote, long before they acquired the parliamentary franchise in 1918:
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Although the 1832 Reform Act marked an extension of the franchise in the UK, it also prevented women from voting in parliamentary elections.
However, Dr Philip Salmon has explored how some women could vote long before they secured equal electoral rights with men.
This was home to one of our 1832-68 MPs. Dominick Browne was MP for County Mayo until May 1836 when he was created Baron Oranmore.
Very interesting piece from our 18th century colleague.
We wonder if @georgianlords.bsky.social would agree. Surely not?!
Charles Dickens also reported for the press on parliamentary elections, which helped to inspire his depiction of Eatanswill in the Pickwick Papers. Find out more about his unpleasant experience of the Northants North by-election in our article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/f...
We’re marking #SussexDay by revisiting two of our MP of the Month posts. Both these Brighton MPs were active supporters of votes for women. George Faithfull championed the rights of female voters at Brighton’s local elections: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/m...
Britain’s first completely blind MP, Henry Fawcett, began his parliamentary career as MP for Brighton from 1865. His wife Millicent Garrett Fawcett (the leading suffragist) became his ‘eyes and hands’ at Westminster. Find out more here: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2018/07/19/m... #SussexDay
#OnThisDay 1845 the Commons rejected Charles Villiers’s proposal to repeal the corn laws. This reform was enacted the following year by Sir Robert Peel as prime minister, splitting the Conservative party into Peelites and Protectionists. api.parliament.uk/historic-han...
Died #OnThisDay 1870 Charles Dickens. In the 1830s he wrote reports of parliamentary debates for the Mirror of Parliament, a rival publication to Hansard which was owned by his uncle. Find out more in our article: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/r...
Today’s blog marks the anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birth by exploring the inspiration behind one of the most notable political events in his first novel. Dickens’s riotous descript…
Today we take it for granted that parliamentary debates are recorded in Hansard. In the Victorian era, however, there was no ‘official’ record. In this blog to end Parliament Week, Dr P…
The role of women in Victorian politics continues to be a significant theme in many of our Victorian Commons posts. Articles on this site by Jennifer Davey, Sarah Richardson, Kathryn Rix,…
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Philip Salmon of our House of Commons, 1832-1868 project re-examines when and how some women could vote long before they secured equal electoral rights with men.
Continuing our recent focus on the personalities and campaigns associated with ‘votes for women’, our MP of the Month highlights the remarkable career of Henry Fawcett, husband of the leading suffr…
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Continuing our recent focus on Victorian female voters and women’s suffrage, this MP of the month feature highlights the career of George Faithfull (1790-1863), a Brighton radical who clashed spect…
From our Prints & Drawings collection: a beautifully summery view of 'Castle M'Garratt, Co Mayo,' drawn from nature by Mrs D. Browne around 1840. The print captures the Browne family's Castlemagarret estate near Claremorris, set amid a verdant Mayo landscape. 🌿☀️
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New online article from the Georgian Lords.
Robin Eagles considers the duke of Grafton's last ditch efforts to achieve conciliation and his intriguing attempt at correcting the record of what had been said in the Lords in an earlier debate...
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Reading a Victorian biography, which describes the 1770s as "the dullest period of the dullest of all centuries"
Just a few months before the Declaration of Independence, last minute efforts were made to reconcile Britain and the American colonies. Dr Robin Eagles shows
