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UK Parliament

Campaigning for women in the Lords

After women were allowed to sit in the House of Commons from 1918, the battle moved to the House of Lords.

Petition from Viscountess Rhondda, 1920

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Correspondence between Viscountess Rhondda & John St. Loe Strachey, Editor of the Spectator, 1922

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Legislative attempts in the 1920s

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Vote on the qualification of peeresses, 1930

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Petition to Parliament on women in the Lords in 1948

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Division in the Lords on its composition, 27 July 1949

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