100 years ago, on 1st December 1919, the first woman MP took her seat in Parliament. Nancy Astor, Conservative, was voted in at a by-election in November. It was only a year since some women had been allowed to vote in a general election for the first time, and also to stand as an MP. […]
Category: Women
1918 – could you become an MP (if you were a woman)?
Having celebrated the passing of the Representation of the People Act (1918), which gave the vote for the first time to women over 30 who were householders of married to householders, ambitious women began to wonder if they might be able to become MPs, as well as voting for them. No-one seemed to be very […]