This page lists all the content on the site relevant to the role of women in Liberal history.
History (4)
Biographies (3)
Journals (1)
Journal articles (21)
Books (1)
Events (2)
Archives: libraries (4)
Archives: individuals (1)
PhD theses (3)
History
Popular Radicalism
'Popular radicalism' embraced a range of causes and beliefs in nineteenth-century Britain. For most readers, it relates to agitation outside parliament to secure a democratic franchise on t...
Liberals and women
When the Victorian women's movement emerged in the 1850s and 1860s it attracted women from Liberal families such as Barbara Leigh Smith who had been associated with Liberal crusades for temperan...
John Stuart Mill on votes for women
'We ought not to deny to them, what we are conceding to everybody else' - House of Commons, 20 May 1867 ...
Women's Liberal Federation
The Women's Liberal Federation was formed between 1886 and 1887 under the presidency of Gladstone's daughter, Catherine and by the turn of the century, the organisation had around 60,000 me...
Biographies
Biography of Violet Bonham Carter
Bonham Carter, Violet
Biography of Lady Megan Lloyd George
Lloyd George, Megan
Biography of Baroness Shirley Williams
Williams, Shirley (Lady Williams)
Journal
Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism
Journal articles
Can Liberalism ever be feminist?
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Guest Editor Elizabeth Evans introduces this special issue by analysing the relationship between Liberalism and feminism.
John Stuart Mill: Liberal father of feminism
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Exploration of how Liberalism and feminism meet powerfully in the life and work of John Stuart Mill.
Honor Balfour and the Liberal Party
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 78 ')
An archival perspective.
The Liberal Party and womens suffrage, 1866-1918
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Analysis of the relationship between the Liberal Party and the campaigns for womens suffrage.
Sheelagh Murnaghan and the Ulster Liberal Party
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 71 ')
The life and political career of the only Liberal to win a seat in the Northern Ireland parliament.
A Radical Life
(from journal ' Liberal Democrat History Group Newsletter 3 ')
Review of Mervyn Jones, A Radical Life: The Biography of Megan Lloyd George
Balancing family and politics
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Interview with Shirley Williams.
Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-1945.
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal Democrat History 31 ')
Review of Mark Pottle (ed.): Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1914-1945.
Report: The struggle for women's rights
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal Democrat History 19 ')
Report of LDHG meeting of March 1998, with Shirley Williams and Johanna Alberti.
The yellow glass ceiling: the mystery of the disappearing Liberal women MPs
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Only six women ever sat as Liberal MPs, and most only for very short periods. This article examines why.
Selecting women candidates: a critical evaluation
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
The Liberal Democrat record in selecting and supporting women candidates.
Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1946 - 1969.
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal Democrat History 31 ')
Mark Pottle (ed.): Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1946 - 1969.
From WLF to WLD: Liberal womens grassroots campaigning
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
The evolution of the Womens Liberal Federation into Women Liberal Democrats.
Liberal heroines
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 40 ')
Report of LDHG meeting of March 2003, with Baroness Liz Barker and Diana Wallis MEP
Women and Lloyd George
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Review of Ffion Hague, The Pain and the Privilege: the Women in Lloyd Georges Life
Mothers of Liberty
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 78 ')
How modern Liberalism was made by women. Report of a Liberal Democrat History Group meeting at the Liberal Democrat conference, 22 September 2012, on the role of women in Liberalism and the Liberal Party.
Women and Gladstone
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
Review of Anne Isba, Gladstone and Women
Welsh women Liberals
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 71 ')
It was not just Lloyd George's daughters ...
The role of women in merger
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 62 - Special issue: Women and Liberalism ')
A personal view of women in Alliance politics.
'Women's rights and women's duties'
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal History 53 ')
Review of Ursula Masson, Women's Rights and Women's Duties: The Aberdare Women's Liberal Association, 1891-1910
Aristrocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain.
(from journal ' Journal of Liberal Democrat History 20 - Special issue: William Ewart Gladstone 1809-98 ')
Review of K. D. Reynolds: Aristrocratic Women and Political Society in Victorian Britain.
Books
Mothers of Liberty: Women who built British Liberalism
Even before they gained the right to vote and to stand for election, women played many key roles in the development of British Liberalism as writers and thinkers, campaigners, political hostesses, organisers and, finally, as parliamentary candidates, MPs and peers. This History Group booklet contains the stories of the women who shaped British Liberalism - including Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Taylor Mill, the suffragist leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the first woman Liberal MP Margaret Wintringham, Violet Bonham Carter, Megan Lloyd George, Nancy Seear, Shirley Williams and many more. Full price £6; available to Journal of Liberal History subscribers at the special price of £5. See top of page for order details.
Events
Liberal Heroines
Friday 14 March 2003
The speakers nominated the women from history who inspired them most, and explained why. ...
The Struggle for Womens Rights
Friday 13 March 1998
What did the Party and its predecessors achieved for womens rights, from the suffragettes onwards? ...
Archives: libraries
BLPES
Liberal Party Archives at the London School of Economics (BLPES) ...
archive url: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Archive Collections relating to Liberal history at the Bodleian Library ...
archive url: http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Liberal History Archives at Manchester Archives and Local Studies ...
archive url: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries/arls/
National Library of Scotland
Sources in the Manuscripts Division of the National Library of Scotland for the study of the Liberals and Liberal Democrats ...
archive url: http://www.nls.uk/
Archives: individuals
Wainwright, Richard (1918-2003) and Lord Steel (1938-)
Project to catalogue the papers of Richard Wainwright and Lord David Steel at London School of Economics Archives ...
archive url: http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archives
PhD theses
For women, for Wales and for Liberalism: women in Liberal politics in Wales c.1883-1914
University of the West of England , 2007
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PhD
John Stuart Mill and male support for the Victorian women's movement
Supervisor - Professor John W. Burrow
Oxford, D.Phil , 1996
Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1867-94: 'an excellent guerrilla partisan'?
York, MA , 1998
