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 >
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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 >
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 >
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!! Helen Glew, ‘In a Minority in Male Spaces: The Networks, Relationships and Collaborations between Women MPs and Women Civil Servants, 1919–1955’ and Esther Breitenbach, ‘Scottish Women and Political Representation in the UK and Scottish Parliaments (1918–2020)’
We are delighted to announce TWO new articles by Helen Glew and Esther Breitenbach in the long needed ‘go to’ collection on Nancy Astor that is now live at the…Read More >
NEW ARTICLE!! By Dr Mari Takayanagi for OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
We are delighted to announce another new article in the long needed ‘go to’ collection on Nancy Astor that is now live at the Open Library of Humanities. The Special…Read More >
NEW ARTICLE by Lisa Berry-Waite!! OLH Special Collection: Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
We are delighted to announce another new article in the long needed ‘go to’ collection on Nancy Astor that is now live at the Open Library of Humanities. The Special…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 >
Remembering Astor in Parliament by Dr Mari Takayanagi
Remembering Astor in Parliament Dr Mari Takayanagi Astor100 has been a great opportunity to promote women’s history in Parliament! As a Senior Archivist in the Parliamentary Archives, I’ve been working…Read More >
