Parliament

As a member of the Annan Committee , ML helped present the Committee's Report on the Future of Broadcasting (written by Lord Annan himself) to Parliament .

After decades of agitation led by ER , Parliament passed the Family Endowment Bill, ensuring that mothers would receive state support for the upbringing of their children.

The Anti-Slavery Society submitted a petition to parliament on MP 's behalf, for her freedom.

MG was arrested for the first time, for suffrage action in disrupting the opening of Parliament in London; together with many suffrage leaders, she was sentenced to two months in Holloway Prison .

Standing from prison for the constituency of St Patrick's, Dublin, Constance, Countess Markievicz, became the first woman elected to the British Parliament ; but, following Sinn Féin policy, she did not take her seat at Westminster.

DM was arrested for the first time when she was one of a WSPU deputation to Parliament . She was jailed for one month at Holloway Prison and her experience garnered much media attention.

After the National Union of Women Workers voted to support female suffrage, MAW formed a Joint Advisory Committee to liaise with Parliament about her social work.

Because she reached a large audience on current issues such as political reform, industry, and economic policy, HM became highly influential in political circles. She was sent so many Blue Books (Parliament ary reports)...

She also became the driving force behind her husband's political career. Though strongly opposed by their families, the couple shared a strong belief in the Liberal party and worked together on campaigns which brought Philip...

Advocating the passage by Parliament of Russell Gurney 's Enabling Act, SJB published an essay in the Fortnightly Review titled The Practice of Medicine by Women.

He followed this with letters to newspapers urging the abolitionist cause, and in early 1788 published four reviews of books on the race question by James Tobin and other defenders of the system of slavery...

Undertaken at the urging of John Bright , who supplied HM with evidence collected for his Parliament ary committee, this venture was not well-received and brought her no money.

In this she claimed for herself the Papal power to excommunicate, and proposed a new day called Moonday to replace Sunday (the sabbath), which Parliament proposed to abolish.

Details of the changed world include the telecommunication by screen image, extinction of smoking, and a three-day weekend and four-day work week. Houses are made of toughened glass and cars are solar-charged, self-renewing, and circular...

The protagonist, John O'Rooney Hogan, is the nephew of a bishop who aims at social climbing. He gains a veneer of Protestantism by attending Trinity College, Dublin , and at the urging of the duplicitous...