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,
2018 will mark the one hundredth anniversary of women gaining the parliamentary vote for the first time. The 1918 Representation of the People Act enfranchised more people than any reform act in British history, but it
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,
Last month, Madonna uploaded an image of Margaret Thatcher, captioned with the words ‘Rebel Heart’. A seemingly innocuous thing to do and a slightly inane point you may think. However, it garnered a hostile response.
In July 1945, as the British people awaited the results of the recent general election, Churchill remarked to his doctor: ‘I hear the women are for me, but that the men have turned against me.’
In the recent General Election campaign, Leanne Wood, the leader of Plaid Cyrmu, received a significant amount of air-time not just in the Welsh regional and local media, but from a national perspective too. She