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 >
Votes for Women in India: the early female MPs and their lobbying for Indian suffrage by Dr Sumita Mukherjee
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 >
‘My early life in Virginia’ by Nancy Astor (edited by Emily Astor)
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 >
Nancy Astor’s early life in Virginia by James Langhorne
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 >
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
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 >
Female statues: Couldn’t Mary Wollstonecraft have kept her clothes on? by Dr Jacqui Turner
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 >
TWO NEW ARTICLES!! By Dr Janet Smith and Professor Yvonne Gilligan for OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
We are delighted to announce TWO NEW ARTICLES by Janet Smith and Yvonne Galligan in the long needed ‘go to’ collection on Nancy Astor that is now live at the…Read More >
Female statues: Couldn’t Mary Wollstonecraft have kept her clothes on? by Dr Jacqui Turner
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 >
A 2020 Plymouth perspective on 100 years of women’s suffrage and parliamentary representation by Linda Gilroy
For our latest LONG READ, we are delighted to welcome Linda Gilroy, MP for Plymouth Sutton 1997-2010. Here Linda details Plymouth’s proud history of supporting women’s politics from suffrage to…Read More >
The Astors in Scotland: 100 Years on Jura by Emily Astor
The Astor family name is synonymous with Cliveden and Plymouth however, Scotland was very important to the family too. Waldorf and Nancy Astor first spent time in Scotland shortly after…Read More >