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Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
2019 marked the centenary of Nancy Astor’s election to the British Parliament becoming the first woman to take her seat and thus changing democracy forever. Astor was ‘An Unconventional MP’ and this collection considers the parliamentary politics and the gendered culture of the early C20th in which she operated. It engages with ways in which history has influenced the present, conceptualising a ‘future’ grounded in the gendered restrictions of the past. It considers how the identities of Astor and other women were constructed and deployed and how her career has generated gendered discourses on government, citizenship and transformation. This special collection is eclectic in its contributors and contributions; articles address a range of approaches to Astor and her period - new perspectives on Astor, and beyond engagement with Astor as an individual, consideration of issues of gender identity, difference and representation. They provide a new voice and a new legacy. The Special Collection is edited by Dr Daniel Grey (Hertfordshire) and Dr Jacqui Turner (Reading). Grey is Head of History at Hertfordshire and has published extensively on women, crime and the state. Turner is Associate Professor of Modern British Political History and curator of the national Astor100 centenary programme. (Cover image Courtesy of The Box Plymouth in association with Astor100)

'An Unconventional MP': Nancy Astor, public women and gendered political culture

Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919–1945
Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919–1945

Pat Thane

2020-07-01 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 1

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MP and/or JP: An Examination of the Public Work of Selected Women during the Early Years of Women’s Enfranchisement (c.1920–1931)
MP and/or JP: An Examination of the Public Work of Selected Women during the Early Years of Women’s Enfranchisement (c.1920–1931)

Anne Logan

2020-08-31 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 9

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‘I Stuck to Plymouth, Plymouth Stuck to Me’: Nancy Astor, Electioneering and Female Parliamentary Candidacy
‘I Stuck to Plymouth, Plymouth Stuck to Me’: Nancy Astor, Electioneering and Female Parliamentary Candidacy

Lisa Berry-Waite

2020-09-10 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 12

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Astor the Fairy Godmother: The Intoxicating Liquor Act 1923
Astor the Fairy Godmother: The Intoxicating Liquor Act 1923

Mari Takayanagi

2020-09-11 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 13

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Scottish Women and Political Representation in the UK and Scottish Parliaments (1918–2020)
Scottish Women and Political Representation in the UK and Scottish Parliaments (1918–2020)

Esther Breitenbach

2020-09-21 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 14

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In a Minority in Male Spaces: The Networks, Relationships and Collaborations between Women MPs and Women Civil Servants, 1919–1955
In a Minority in Male Spaces: The Networks, Relationships and Collaborations between Women MPs and Women Civil Servants, 1919–1955

Helen Glew

2020-09-21 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 15

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A Matter of Public Interest: Press Coverage of the Outfits of Women MPs 1918–1930
A Matter of Public Interest: Press Coverage of the Outfits of Women MPs 1918–1930

Krista Cowman

2020-10-06 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 17

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Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885
Crossing the Border of Citizenship: Helen Taylor, the Independent Radical Democrat Candidate for Camberwell North, 1885

Janet Smith

2020-10-08 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 19

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Women MPs from Northern Ireland: Challenges and Contributions, 1953–2020
Women MPs from Northern Ireland: Challenges and Contributions, 1953–2020

Yvonne Galligan

2020-10-12 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 20

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Welsh Women MPs: Exploring Their Absence
Welsh Women MPs: Exploring Their Absence

Sam Blaxland

2020-11-20 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 26

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‘To Keep It in the Family’: Spouses, Seat Inheritance and Parliamentary Elections in Post-Suffrage Britain 1918–1945
‘To Keep It in the Family’: Spouses, Seat Inheritance and Parliamentary Elections in Post-Suffrage Britain 1918–1945

Eleanor Lowe

2020-11-23 Volume 6 • Issue 2 • 2020 • 27

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‘The Returned Pilgrim’: Nancy Astor and Plymouth
‘The Returned Pilgrim’: Nancy Astor and Plymouth

Judith Rowbotham

2021-02-26 Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 2021 • 6

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