Manuscript volume, 17th century: the Manner of Holdinge a Parliament in England in 24 Articles, comprising eight texts on parliamentary history, back to the Anglo-Saxon period, and on procedure, concerning both the House of Lords and the House of Commons and their powers.
UnknownThe archive consists of a small notebook containing manuscript notes from books and lectures on subjects including women's suffrage, employment and legislation. The volume includes notes under the following headings:
'Women's Suffrage Debate 28 Feb 1908'; 'United Kingdom Hospitals - Conference University College London Apr 1908'; organisation of a Votes for Women event; 'Mrs Wolstenholme Elmy on Married Women's Property Act 1882'; 'Meetings at Queen's Hall, Ladbroke Hall'; 'Self Denial Week'; 'Miss M Brockenbury - The Educated Woman and the Vote' [report of speech]; 'Mrs Brownlow's Pamphlet - Women and Factory Legislation'; Australia: Minimum Wage, Victor Clark Labour Movement; America - Licensing systems, Machinery, Factory, Jewish Competition, women voters in Colorado, New Zealand, Wyoming; 'Housing Bill 1908'; speech by John Burns; 'Pauperism 1st quarter 1908' [statistics]; dates of legislation affecting women 1844-1897; Reform Bill; women's work - florists, acrobats, pattern makers, married women in factories, cotton trade, carding hooks and eyes, cigar trade; posts closed to women - Law, medicine, church, politics; women in Inspectorate - prisons, factory , schools; women's wages; 'Government as Employers'; sweated labour; Anti-sweating Demonstration Queen's Hall Jan 28 1908; women prisoners; employment of children; Married women's savings; women married to aliens; Married Women's Property Act 1882; Guardianship of children.
The volume also included the following loose inserts which have been removed and are held within the folder:
Press cuttings:
'Unemployment - Salford and the scheme for women', Manchester Guardian, 22 Jan 1909
'Child labour in Egypt', Manchester Guardian,15 Jul 1908
'Australia and women's suffrage', Manchester Guardian, 1 Feb 1910
'Women as Councillors - the narrow range of choice', Manchester Guardian, 22 Jan 1909
'Votes for Women - women voters', Manchester Guardian, 19 Jun c. 1910
'University Women Teachers - the vote a necessary leverage in their work' Manchester Guardian, c. 1910
'London's unknown Museums - special LCC survey', The Times, 11 Mar 1936
'The Sacredness of motherhood', Common Cause, 24 Mar 1910
'Infant mortality and working mothers', Common Cause, c. 1910
'Why women need the vote', Common Cause, 21 Mar 1910
'The equal standard', Common Cause, c. 1910
Loose page from a leaflet on equal pay in Australia.
Manuscript notes on working women
Manuscript notes on The Present Conciliation Bill
Manuscript notes on women prisoners and comparisons with conditions abroad
Manuscript notes on women as a moral force
Manuscript notes on two speakers: Miss Phillips and Miss Fothergill
Manuscript notes on the function of the state and women's work
Manuscript notes on infant deaths
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