The August 2018 update adds twenty-seven articles (including one reference group article), containing twenty-six biographies, accompanied by ten portrait likenesses. Those entries marked with an asterisk (*) are freely available for a period of three months from publication.
This month's particular focus is on women and Parliament in the period after 1918 when women’s suffrage was (partially) gained, and when women could stand for parliament for the first time. Their biographies have been curated by Dr Mari Takayanagi, senior archivist at the Parliamentary Archives. Read the full editorial introduction to this month’s update.
New and updated subjects - August 2018
Attlee (née Millar), Violet Helen, countess Attlee (1895–1965), charity fund-raiser and prime minister’s wife |
Carnegy, Elizabeth Patricia, Baroness Carnegy of Lour (1925–2010), Girl Guides official and educationist |
Carney [married name McBride], (Maria) Winifred, [Winnie] (1887–1943), trade unionist, suffrage activist, and Irish republican* |
Chamberlain, Annie Vere [Anne] (1882–1967), political wife |
Chaplin [née Schofield; other married name Walpole], (Sybil) Judith (1939–1993), politician |
Cottrell [née Bryan], Mary Ellen (1868–1969), co-operator and labour activist |
Court, Hannah Frances Mary [May] (1880–1945), accountant and parliamentary official |
Dacre Fox [née Doherty; later name Elam], Norah (1878–1961), suffragette and political activist |
David [née Blakesley], Nora Ratcliff, Baroness David (1913–2009), politician |
Fisher [née Satchwell], Doris Mary Gertrude, Baroness Fisher of Rednal (1919–2005), politician |
Lloyd George [née Owen], Margaret (1866–1941), politician and charity worker |
Lucas [née Stern], Alice Theresa (1853–1924), parliamentary candidate |
Mackenzie [née Hughes], (Hettie) Millicent (1863–1942), educationist and suffragist |
Matheson, (Marie) Cécile (1874–1950), settlement warden and social worker |
McElhone [née Brown], Helen Margaret (1933–2013), politician |
McEwan [née Selkirk], Janet Landells (Jenny) (1860–1920), suffragist and politician |
Miller [née Haring], Millie (1922–1977), social worker and politician |
Plummer [née Lapsker], Beatrice [Beattie], Baroness Plummer (1903–1972), farmer and politician |
Quennell, Joan Mary (1923–2006), politician |
Scott, Amelia (1860–1952), social reformer and women’s suffrage campaigner |
Smith [née Hando; other married names Smith, Blackton], Margaret Rosalind Delacourt-, Baroness Delacourt-Smith (1916–2010), politician |
Squire, Rachel Anne (1954–2006), politician and trade unionist |
Ward [née Martin], Mary Jane (1851–1933), author, lecturer, and women’s suffrage activist |
Winder [née Hayward, other married name Hawke], Florence May [Jean] (1909–2006), parliamentary reporter |
Wright [née Clough; other married name Rathbone], Beatrice Frederika, Lady Wright (1910–2003), politician* |
Wright, Sheila Rosemary Rivers (1925–2013), social worker and politician |
New reference groups - August 2018
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