Louth is a market town and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire,England. Louth serves as an important town for a large rural area of eastern Lincolnshire. Visitor attractions include St James' Church,Hubbard's Hills,the market,many independent retailers and Lincolnshire's last remaining cattle market.
Gainsborough is a constituency in Lincolnshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1983 by Sir Edward Leigh,a Conservative.
Oldfield is a small hamlet within the county of West Yorkshire,England,situated north of Stanbury and near to Oakworth. It is approximately 6 miles (9.2 km) west of the town of Keighley. It mainly consists of farmland and has panoramic views across the Worth Valley towards BrontëCountry. Top Withens,the house featured in the novel Wuthering Heights,is clearly visible.
Government in Australia is elected by universal suffrage and Australian women participate in all levels of the government of the nation. In 1902,the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia became the first nation on earth to enact equal suffrage,enabling women to both vote and stand for election alongside men Women have been represented in Australian state parliaments since 1921,and in the Federal Parliament since 1943. The first female leader of an Australian State or Territory was elected in 1989,and the first female Prime Minister took office in 2010. In 2019 for the first time,a majority of members of the Australian Senate were women. At the time of its foundation in 1901,and again from 1952 to 2022,Australia has had a female monarch as ceremonial Head of State,while the first female Governor of an Australian State was appointed in 1991,and the first female Governor-General of Australia took office in 2008.
Irene Mary Bewick Ward,Baroness Ward of North Tyneside,was a British Conservative Party politician. She was a long-serving female Member of Parliament (MP),the longest serving female Conservative MP in history. She later became a life peeress in the House of Lords,and had served a total of 43 years in Parliament.
Hilda Runciman,Viscountess Runciman of Doxford was a British Liberal Party politician.
Thomas Wintringham was a British Liberal Party politician. He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth in Lincolnshire at a by-election in June 1920,but died in office the following year,aged 53. He died suddenly in the House of Commons reading room in the Palace of Westminster.
The 1920 Louth by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Louth in Lincolnshire. Voting was held on 3 June 1920. The by-election took place five days after the Louth Flood of 29 May 1920 had claimed 23 lives.
The 1921 Louth by-election was a by-election held on 22 September 1921 for the British House of Commons constituency of Louth in Lincolnshire.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Pelham Heneage was a British Conservative Party politician.
Mary Danvers Stocks,Baroness Stocks was a British writer. She was closely associated with the Strachey,the Wedgwood and the Ricardo families. Her family was deeply involved in changes in the Victorian Era and Stocks herself was deeply involved in women's suffrage,the welfare state,and other aspects of social work.
Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby,was a British suffragist,Liberal politician,feminist and internationalist.
The representation of women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has been an issue in the politics of the United Kingdom at numerous points in the 20th and 21st centuries. Originally debate centred on whether women should be allowed to vote and stand for election as Members of Parliament. The Parliament Act 1918 gave women over 21 the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament. The United Kingdom has had three female Prime Ministers:Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990),Theresa May (2016–2019),and Liz Truss (2022). The publication of the book Women in the House by Elizabeth Vallance in 1979 highlighted the under-representation of women in Parliament. In more modern times concerns about the under-representation of women led the Labour Party to introduce and,decades later,abandon all-women short lists,something which was later held to breach discrimination laws.
The 1918 Keighley by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Keighley in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 26 April 1918.
Jessie Stephen,MBE was a twentieth-century British suffragette,labour activist and local councillor. She grew up in Scotland and won a scholarship to train as a teacher. Family finances dictated otherwise,leading to her becoming a domestic worker at the age of 15. She became involved in national labour issues as a teenager,via organisations such as the Independent Labour Party and the Women's Social and Political Union. Stephen moved to London during World War I and in the 1920s she toured the United States and Canada,where she held meetings with the public including migrant English domestic workers.
Helen Miller Fraser,later Moyes,was a Scottish suffragist,feminist,educationalist and Liberal Party politician who later emigrated to Australia.
Dame Mary Guillan Smieton,DBE was a British civil servant. She served as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education between 1959 and 1963,only the second woman to achieve the rank of Permanent Secretary. Prior to this,she was Permanent Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Education,having joined the civil service in 1925. She studied at Bedford College,London and Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford.
Edith Hudson was a British nurse and suffragette. She was an active member of the Edinburgh branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and was arrested several times for her part in their protests in Scotland and London. She engaged in hunger strikes while in prison and was forcibly fed. She was released after the last of these strikes under the so-called Cat and Mouse Act. Hudson was awarded a Hunger Strike Medal 'for Valour' by the WSPU.
The Electrical Association for Women (EAW) was a feminist and educational organisation founded in Great Britain in 1924 to promote the benefits of electricity in the home.
Bertha Brewster was a British peace activist and suffragette who achieved fame with her letter to the Editor of The Daily Telegraph in February 1913. She was arrested five times,imprisoned twice and received the Hunger Strike Medal from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).
