British Women's Emancipation since the Renaissance

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BRITISH WOMEN'S HISTORY MISCELLANY

Chronological narrative: Renaissance to today
Women's History Timeline from 1520
Key individuals in women's history 1300-1900
Some female philanthropists 1800-1850
Anna Brodie and The Times
Anna Brodie cuttings
Women inventors and patents 1637-1892
Some pro-feminist men

THE HISTORY OF WOMEN'S OPPRESSION

History of female oppression before the Renaissance
The origins of women's oppression
The origins - press cuttings
The origins - more press cuttings
The origins - more press cuttings
Antifeminists

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WOMEN

Eighteenth century women
Images of some eminent c18th women

NON-CONFORMERS

Non-conformers
Cross dressing women
Cross dressing women - press cuttings
Cross dressing women - more press cuttings
Cross dressing women - female sailors
Cross dressing women - female soldiers
Cross dressing women - some biogs
Spinsters
Spinsters - press cuttings
Feminists
Feminists - press cuttings I
Feminists - press cuttings II
Feminist publications from 1798
Lesbians
Unmarried cohabitation

OCCUPATIONS

Occupations of women: an overview
Businesswomen 1881
Employment of women 1881
Medical women before the 1850s
Trades unions
Women police in 1918

ABOUT THIS SITE

About this website
Home page

LINKS TO MY OTHER SITES

580 Notable Sussex Women
Women of Victorian Hastings
A Century of Railwaywomen
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon

VICTORIAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNS

Higher education
The first women's colleges 1848/9
Bedford College
Women in the professions
Prostitution
The CD Acts: State Regulation of Prostitution
The CD Acts and the House of Commons
Women's petition against the CD Acts
Women in public office
Women's societies
Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Temperance
Emigration
Women's clubs
Some biographies
Emily Faithfull
Caroline Norton

MARRIAGE & DIVORCE

Overview of marriage
Press cuttings about marriage
Age at which women married (1852)
The vow to obey
A man's historic right to beat his wife
The Victorian wife-beating epidemic
Wife-beating epidemic press cuttings I
Wife-beating epidemic press cuttings II
A history of divorce
The 1857 Divorce Act
Wife selling
Married Women's Property
Married Women's Property ~ press cuttings
Married Women's Property ~ Lord Brougham, 1856

CHILDREN

Birth control
Custody of infants, 1830s
Illegitimacy

WOMEN AND POLITICS

Women in politics before 1850
Women in politics before 1850 press cuttings
The 1649 women's petition
Watching MPs: The Ladies' Gallery
The Ladies' Gallery press cuttings
Overview of the suffrage movement
Suffrage press cuttings from 1835 to 1868
Suffrage images from the early days
The Enfranchisement of Women by Helen Taylor, 1851
The Langham Place group
Images of the Langham Place group
Suffrage debate in the House of Commons 1867
Suffrage registration the battles of 1868
Suffrage registration press cuttings
Suffrage debate in the House of Commons 1870
Suffrage debate in the House of Commons 1871
Suffrage debate in the House of Commons 1878
Suffrage debate in the House of Commons 1883
Suffrage debate in the House of Commons 1892
The local vote
The Anti-suffrage movement
One man's case against women's suffrage, 1913
Women in c19th politics

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