Houses of Parliament Open Lecture: Parliament and Suffragettes

The lecture examined the interaction of the UK women's suffrage movement with Parliament, from the first petition presented to the House of Commons in 1832 to the achievement of equal franchise in 1928. It considered how Parliament reacted to the lobbying and petitioning of the peaceful constitutional suffrage movement led by Millicent Fawcett, the direct actions of the militant suffragette organisations led by Emmeline Pankhurst and others, and the individual protests by Emily Wilding Davison. It also considered the early women MP's from 1919, and how women came to enter the House of Lords in 1958.

The film and transcript of Mari's lecture is now online here.