Necessary women : the untold story of Parliament's working women / Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith.
By: Takayanagi, Mari [author.]
.Contributor(s): Hallam Smith, Elizabeth [author.].Publisher: Cheltenham : The History Press, 2023Description: 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781803990156.Note: Gift of the authors (Copy B).Subject(s): Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons -- History | Women -- Political activity -- Great Britain -- History | Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 920.02 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920.02 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 022228 | |||||
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Millbank E-Library | Book Display | 920.02 TAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | B | Available | Gift of the authors. | 021602 |
The chaotic world of the Old Palace of Westminster : meet the women -- Ellen Manners Sutton : scandal at the Speaker's house -- Woman in charge : Jane Julia Bennett, House of Lords housekeeper -- Catering for the members : Jane, goddess of Bellamy's -- The admirable Mrs Gully and her gallery -- 'Losing their reason' : Eliza Arscot and her fellow housekepers -- The ever-youthful Miss Ashworth : typing comes to parliament -- For one night only? Emily Wilding Davison in the cupboard -- A wartime innovation : the girl porters -- The monstrous regiment : women managers in the Lords -- Miss Bell and her bell : the later housekeepers -- Expert shots and dragons : parliament at war -- 'GIRL CLERK IN COMMONS'! -- Hansard and the battle for equal pay -- The strain of carrying ladders : the Library and Archives.
"When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not have known that there were sixty-seven other women also resident in Parliament that night: housekeepers, kitchen maids, domestic servants, and wives and daughters living in households. This book is their story. Women have touched just about every aspect of life in Parliament. From ‘Jane’, dispenser of beer, pies and chops in Bellamy’s legendary refreshment rooms; to Eliza Arscot, who went from reigning as Principal Housemaid at the House of Lords to Hanwell Asylum; to May Ashworth, Official Typist to Parliament for thirty years through marriage, war and divorce; and Jean Winder, the first female Hansard reporter, who fought for years to be paid the same as her male counterparts; the lives of these women have been largely unacknowledged – until now. Drawing on new research from the Parliamentary Archives, government records and family history sources, historians and parliamentary insiders Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith bring these unsung heroes to life. They chart the changing context for working women within and beyond the Palace of Westminster, uncovering women left out of the history books – including Mary Jane Anderson, a previously unknown suffragette."-- Taken from dust jacket.
Gift of the authors (Copy B).