Eleanor Rathbone
Born
Eleanor Florence Rathbone (12 May 1872 – 2 January 1946) was an independent British Member of Parliament (MP) and long-term campaigner for family allowance and for women's rights. She was a member of the noted Rathbone family of Liverpool.
Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lists2
Women Who Changed the Work of the UK Parliament
by list_wrangler •
Lists of political women often stop at firsts: first elected, first to sit, first prime minister. Firsts matter, but this list asks a harder question: what did each woman actually change about how...
Politics
18
0
0
British Backbenchers Who Changed the Law
by list_wrangler •
Most British law starts in government. A surprising amount of the law people actually notice did not: the abolition of the slave trade, the end of hanging, divorce reform, the legalisation of...
Politics
19
0
0
Comments
Loading comments…