Publications

I’m currently working on my upcoming book, A Woman MP?: From Parliamentary Candidates to Westminster Representatives, 1918-1939 which will be published by Routledge.

At just 27 words long, the 1918 Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act revolutionised Westminster, enabling women over the age of 21 to stand for parliament. A Woman MP? tells the story of what happened next. It offers the first in-depth exploration into the parliamentary election campaigns of women candidates, combined with their experiences in parliament during the interwar period. 

Told through the stories of seven trailblazing women who stood across the political spectrum, A Woman MP? draws on rarely seen archival material and contextualises these individuals within the broader narrative of women’s parliamentary experiences.

Coming Soon.

Women Labour MPs 1929

Women Labour MPs elected in the 1929 General Election, Wikimedia Commons

I’ve also published numerous book chapters, academic articles, and book reviews on women and politics

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I’ve also published numerous book chapters, academic articles, and book reviews on women and politics ✷

Chapters in Edited Collections

Featured
‘‘We are therefore asking you to provide us with more suitable facilities’: Women MPs and Parliamentary Space, 1945-1997’

In Anna Muggeridge, Lyndsey Jenkins, Ruth Davidson, and Farah Khanum Hussain, eds, Women, Politics and Power, 1945-1997 (Oxford, Forthcoming).

‘The ‘Woman’s Point of View’: Women Parliamentary Candidates, 1918-1919’

In David Thackeray and Richard Toye, eds, Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises (Cham, 2020), pp. 47-69.

Modern women's history expert - Dr Lisa Berry-Waite

Academic Articles

Nancy Astor with Arthur Balfour and David Lloyd George, 1919

Charles Sims, Introduction of Lady Astor as the First Woman MP, c. 1919, Wikimedia Commons

Book Reviews