6th April 2022 with Dr Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes, a duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning Join us for this duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning in our Spring Series, featuring Dr Ciara Stewart, with the paper titled: ‘”Tyrannous and Immoral…
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Women’s History Month: Marie Stopes
On 17 March 1921 Marie Stopes and her husband of three years, Humphrey Verdon Roe, founded the Mothers’ Clinic for Constructive Birth Control at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London; it was the first birth control clinic in England. For…
Married Women’s Property and Divorce in the 19th Century
In 1882, after a series of earlier reforms, the Married Women’s Property Act passed for England, Wales and Ireland, while Scotland had a less extensive Act in 1880 and another in 1881. The Act restored to married women the right…