Plymouth was the first constituency to elect a woman who took her seat, sending Nancy Astor to the Commons in 1919.
Exactly a century ago, the first woman who took her seat in the Commons was elected as an MP.
It was on 15 November 1919 that Nancy Astor won Plymouth, and two weeks later she entered parliament.
Constance Markiewicz, who won for Sinn Fein, never took her place in the Commons.
It’s 100 years since the first woman to took her seat in the UK Parliament, but what was Astor actually like? The centenary commemoration of Nancy Astor’s election to Parliament to become the first woman to take...
A century ago today, Viscountess Astor boarded a train in Plymouth to take her to Westminster. As the first female MP to sit in the House of Commons (Sinn Fein’s Countess Markievicz, elected the previous year, refused...
On the day a statue of the UK’s first female MP was unveiled in Plymouth - two Prime Ministerial candidates were in the West Country answering questions on female MPs. MP Nancy Astor changed politics forever...
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