Women's history (41 pages found in this category)


Elizabeth Mallett

Elizabeth Mallet (fl. 1672–1706) was a printer and bookseller who produced Britain’s first daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, the first issue of which appeared on 11 March 1702.

Emma Lister-Kaye

Colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.

Ethel Beatty

Ethel Beatty was a socialite and member of the aristocracy.

Evelyn Manesta

Alias used by one of the three suffragettes arrested for damaging with hammers the glass of thirteen pictures in Manchester Art Gallery on 3 April 1913.

Flapper

Term used to describe a sub-culture of young women in the aftermath of the First World War, intent on pleasure and flouting conventional standards of behaviour.

Florence Nagle

Trainer and breeder of racehorses, a breeder of pedigree dogs, and an active feminist

Florence Norman

British social campaigner and suffragist.

Gladys Pott

An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers

Great Pilgrimage

March in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women.

Herring girls

Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.