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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.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. --- Women--Great Britain--Social conditions. --- Women--Political activity.

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Single women --- Social conditions --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Single women - Great Britain - Social conditions - 17th century. --- Single women - Great Britain - Social conditions - 18th century. --- Single women - Great Britain - Social conditions - 19th century. --- Unmarried women --- Book

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Minority women --- Women immigrants --- Ethnicity --- Sex role --- Social conditions --- Minority women - Social conditions --- Minority women - Great Britain - Social conditions --- Women immigrants - Social conditions --- Women immigrants - Great Britain - Social conditions

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The public debate on Shariʿa councils in Britain has been heavily influenced by the assumption that the councils exist as religious authorities and that those who use them exercise their right to religious freedom. In Shariʿa Councils and Muslim Women in Britain Tanya Walker draws on extensive fieldwork from over 100 cases to argue for a radically different understanding of the setting and dynamics of the Shariʿa councils. The analysis highlights the pragmatic manoeuvrings of Muslim women, in pursuit of defined objectives, within limited space – holding in tension both the constraints of particular frameworks of power, and the realities of women’s agency. Despite this needed nuance in a polarised debate however, important questions about the rights of Muslim women remain.

Islamic courts --- Muslim women --- Islamic women --- Women, Muslim --- Women --- Courts, Islamic --- Courts (Islamic law) --- Muslim courts --- Sharia courts --- Courts --- Islamic law --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Social conditions. --- Social conditions --- Islamic courts - Great Britain --- Muslim women - Legal status, laws, etc. - Great Britain --- Muslim women - Great Britain - Social conditions --- Muslimahs

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Collet, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth), 1860-1948. --- Great Britain -- History -- Edward VII, 1901-1910. --- Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901. --- Women -- Education -- Great Britain -- History. --- Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History. --- Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions. --- Women social reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography.