National Council of Women of Great Britain

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National Council of Women of Great Britain
Formation1895
Formerly called
National Union of Women Workers, National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland

The National Council of Women of Great Britain (NCWGB) exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain. [1] Founded as the National Union of Women Workers, it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland". [2]

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History

It was founded in 1895 and affiliated to the International Council of Women (ICW) in 1897. [3]

It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain. [4]

It supported the work of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee 1941-1956. [5]

Its early archives are held in the London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.

H. Pearl Adam published Women in Council, the history of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, in 1945. [6]

Notable members

Presidents

1895: Louise Creighton [7]
1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
1899:
1900: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton [8]
1901: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton [8]
1902: Lady Constance Battersea
1903: Mary Clifford [7]
1905: Elizabeth Cadbury [7]
1907: Mrs Edwin Gray [7]
1909:
1910: Lady Laura Ridding [7]
1911: Mrs Alan Bright [7]
1913:
1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon [7]
1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne [7]
1921: Frances Balfour [7]
1923: Mrs George Morgan [7]
1925: Henrietta Franklin [7]
1928: Florence Ada Keynes [7]
1931: Lady Trustram Eve [7]
1933: Eva Hartree [7]
1937: Ruth Balfour [7]
1938: A. F. Johnston [7]
1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness [7]
1941: Home Peel [7]
1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness [7]
1945:
1953: Kathleen Freeman [7]
1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat [7]
1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading [7]
1959: Joan Robins [7]
1962: Norah Dean [7]
1964: Kathleen Baxter [7]
1966: Joan Boulind [7]
1968: Guinevere Tilney
1970:
1972: Margaret Lampard [7]
1974: Kay Fox [7]
1976: Helen Waldsax [7]
1978: Diane Reid [7]
1980: Margaret Wingfield [7]
1984: Mary Mayne [7]
1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin [7]
1988: Rosalind Preston [7]
1990: Elizabeth Bavidge [7]
1992: Patience Purdy [7]
1994: Jean Clark [7]
1996:
2008: Sheila Eaton [9]
2012: Elsie Leadley [9]
2014: Gwenda Nicholas [10]
2017: Andrena Telford [10]

Other members

Notable members have included:

References

  1. ↑ Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding , Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 Nov 2017
  2. ↑ Ridding, Laura. "Socities[sic] Which Help Women And Children. No. 1. The National Union Of Woman Workers". chestofbooks.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. ↑ "National Council of Women of Great Britain Annual Conference 2019". British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG). 24 October 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland". Archives Hub. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Records of the Equal Pay Campaign Committee". archives.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  6. ↑ Bain, G. S.; Woolven, Gillian B.; Woolven, G. B. (29 March 1979). A Bibliography of Industrial Relations. CUP Archive. p. 103. ISBN   978-0-521-21547-3.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Glick, Daphne (1995). The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years. National Council of Women of Great Britain. ISBN   978-0900915079.
  8. 1 2 NUWW Annual Reports 1899-1901 TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University GB1924 HD6079
  9. 1 2 "NCW News" (PDF). National Council of Women. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  10. 1 2 "NCW elects a new president". National Council of Women. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  11. ↑ London School of Economics and Political Science. "The Suffrage Interviews". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 7 April 2025.


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