By Clarisse Berthezène and Julie Gottlieb Who would have thought that one of the most remarkable outcomes of Britain’s EU referendum would have been the rise of women in politics—across the board, across the spectrum,
The terms whirling around this referendum campaign have been that voting for Brexit is an act of immense self-harm and suicide. David Cameron himself had warned that leaving the EU would be an act of
By Lucy Delap and Julie Gottlieb The recent release of the film Suffragette is politically and historically significant. A number of centenaries have now passed: the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (1903) and of the adoption of
In the case of my new book, Guilty Women, Foreign Policy and Appeasement in Inter-war Britain - to twist around a well-worn cliché - you can tell a book by its cover. In less than a thousand words,
This past weekend—probably deemed a slow mid-summer news day- The Sun newspaper hoped to shine glaring light on the British royal family’s past political sympathies with the publication of a grainy home movie showing the
It’s a perennial problem. How do we make sense of political women on the Right, especially those strong formidable women who defied stereotypes of the domestic drudge who would never dream of voting otherwise than