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Necessary Women
- The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women
Engelsk Hardback
Necessary Women
- The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women
Engelsk Hardback

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When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not have known that there were sixty-seven other women also resident in Parliament that night: housekeepers, kitchen maids, and wives and daughters living in households. This book is their story.

Women have touched just about every aspect of life in Parliament. From ‘Jane’, dispenser of beer, pies and chops in Bellamy’s legendary refreshment rooms; to May Ashworth, Official Typist to Parliament for thirty years through marriage, war and divorce; and Jean Winder, the first female Hansard reporter, who fought for years for equal pay; the lives of these women have been largely unacknowledged – until now.

Drawing on new research from the Parliamentary Archives, government records and family history sources, historians and parliamentary insiders Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith bring these unsung heroes to life. They chart the changing context for working women within and beyond the Palace of Westminster, uncovering women left out of the history books – including Mary Jane Anderson, a previously unknown suffragette.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781803990156
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1803990155
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
29 jun 2023
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
165mm
Højde:
240mm
Forlag:
The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
29 jun 2023
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