National Union of Women Workers

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Eleanor Rathbone
Rathbone and Macadam collaborated on many social and political projects, most with feminist aims. They began by stabilising the Settlement's budget and community programmes. The two then served on the founding committee of the School of Social Studies and Training for Social Work
politics Evelyn Sharp
ES committed herself to the suffragist cause by joining the WSPU , after being sent by the Manchester Guardian to cover the annual conference of the National Union of Women Workers at Tunbridge Wells.
John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869–1955. Manchester University Press, 2009.
52
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
102, 128-9
politics Emma Marshall
EM chaired one session and attended others when the National Union of Women Workers met in Bristol.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
politics Mary Augusta Ward
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.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990.
325
politics Mary Augusta Ward
Her political views continued to create breaches in her previous alliances. In addition to the rift with Somerville College , she was ousted from the National Union of Women Workers . Her son Arnold also...
Textual Production Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
72
—expressing...
Textual Production Beatrice Webb
This pamphlet was a revised and expanded version of two papers she had given, one at a conference of the National Union of Women Workers at Nottingham in October 1895, and one before the Fabian Society

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1888: A series of annual conferences of working...

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1888

A series of annual conferences of working women began—held in such centres as Aberdeen, Birmingham, and Liverpool—which resulted in the formation in 1895 of the National Union of Women Workers .
Carter, Angela, and Martin Leman. Martin Leman’s Comic and Curious Cats. 1st ed., Gollancz, 1979.
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September 1914: Two women's police forces were formed: the...

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September 1914

Two women's police forces were formed: the Women's Police Volunteers and the Women Patrols .
Levine, Philippa. “Walking the Streets in a Way No Decent Woman Should: Women Police in World War I”. Journal of Modern History, Vol.
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, No. 1, Mar. 1994, pp. 34-78.
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Pugh, Martin. Women and the Women’s Movement in Britain 1914 - 1959. Macmillan Education, 1992.
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Marwick, Arthur. Women at War, 1914-1918. Croom Helm, 1977.
40, 42
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopædia Britannica. 12th ed., Encyclopædia Britannica Company, 1922, 3 vols.
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