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Congratulations Alexis Bowater OBE!

Posted on
10th June 2022

The whole of the Astor100 team were delighted and extraordinarily proud to hear the news that the Alexis Bowater, Chair of the Nancy Astor Statue Committee received an OBE in…Read More >

Congratulations Alexis Bowater OBE!

So here we are again… sex and misogyny in Parliament by Dr Jacqui Turner

Posted on
25th April 2022

So here we are again, after a weekend of press and parliamentary misogyny, the subsequent outrage will inevitably simmer down and go away until the next time…and the next time……Read More >

So here we are again… sex and misogyny in Parliament  by Dr Jacqui Turner

The census: a treasure trove of material for historians by Peter Jolly

Posted on
18th March 2022

In the spirit of the upcoming widening research focus of the Astor100 web pages, we are pleased to present a blog on the importance  and utilisation of the 1921 census by…Read More >

The census: a treasure trove of material for historians by Peter Jolly

#IWD2022 Benchwarmer to Battleaxe: Nancy Astor and her Maiden Speech, by Abbie Tibbott

Posted on
9th March 2022

Nancy Astor was Britain’s first elected woman to take her seat in Parliament. In a political career that spanned over thirty years, Astor recognised her position as the first female…Read More >

#IWD2022 Benchwarmer to Battleaxe: Nancy Astor and her Maiden Speech, by Abbie Tibbott

NEWS AND EVENTS: Upcoming update to Astor100 pages

Posted on
9th March 20229th March 2022

We are in the process of updating the Astor100 pages to create a space for broader research on Astor and the gendererd politics of the interwar period. Please bear with…Read More >

NEWS AND EVENTS: Upcoming update to Astor100 pages

Votes for Women in India: the early female MPs and their lobbying for Indian suffrage by Dr Sumita Mukherjee

Posted on
2nd February 20212nd February 2021

This blogpost by Sumita Mukerhjee was first published on Parliament’s UK Vote 100 blog and is reproduced with permission. Just because I am re-reading Sumita’s work, talking to my part…Read More >

Votes for Women in India: the early female MPs and their lobbying for Indian suffrage by Dr Sumita Mukherjee

‘My early life in Virginia’ by Nancy Astor (edited by Emily Astor)

Posted on
3rd December 2020

I was born in Danville Virginia and had three brothers and four sisters , all of whom I adored Lizzie was the eldest , she had pretty eyes and lovely…Read More >

‘My early life in Virginia’ by Nancy Astor (edited by Emily Astor)

Nancy Astor’s early life in Virginia by James Langhorne

Posted on
1st December 2020

We are delighted to welcome James Langhorne as our guest blogger, James is based in Virginia and is Nancy Astor’s cousin. Here, James describes Nancy Astor’s early life in Virginia….Read More >

Nancy Astor’s early life in Virginia by James Langhorne

NEW ARTICLE!! by Eleanor Lowe, ‘To Keep It in the Family’: Spouses, Seat Inheritance and Parliamentary Elections in Post-Suffrage Britain 1918–1945′ for OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain

Posted on
30th November 202030th November 2020

We are delighted to announce a new article by Eleanor Lowe in the long needed ‘go to’ collection on Nancy Astor that is now live at the Open Library of…Read More >

NEW ARTICLE!! by Eleanor Lowe, ‘To Keep It in the Family’: Spouses, Seat Inheritance and Parliamentary Elections in Post-Suffrage Britain 1918–1945′ for OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain

Female statues: Couldn’t Mary Wollstonecraft have kept her clothes on? by Dr Jacqui Turner

Posted on
16th November 2020

Nobody really knows how many statues of women there are in the UK. It is even more difficult to know what type of women they represent; invariably they are divided…Read More >

Female statues: Couldn’t Mary Wollstonecraft have kept her clothes on? by Dr Jacqui Turner

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