Tag: Women’s rights Records and researchThe suffrage ‘choose your own adventure’ thread: Fact or fiction?Tuesday 23 March 2021Inspired by the recent ‘choose your own adventure’ threads of other organisations, we set...Records and researchArchives and agency: Sex work and the stateWednesday 22 July 2020Within the records of government, sex workers lack agency. As with most of our...Records and researchReclaiming the records: Sex work and the stateThursday 16 July 2020The state has had a long, complex and largely negative relationship with sex workers...Records and researchFifty years since the 1970 Equal Pay ActFriday 29 May 2020Today marks 50 years since the 1970 Equal Pay Act received royal assent –...Archives and archivistsFighting a great fight: Women workers at Ford DagenhamWednesday 22 April 2020The action began on 7 June 1968, when 187 women walked out of Ford’s...Records and research100 years of women in the professions: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919Monday 23 December 2019Last year we celebrated the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act,...Archives and archivistsSuffragettes and the Black Friday protests: 18 November 1910Monday 18 November 2019The 18th of November 1910 is one of the iconic dates in the history...Records and researchThe ‘Victory’ election: the 1918 General ElectionFriday 14 December 2018At The National Archives we have been proud to put women at the centre...Records and researchMillicent Fawcett: her statue is unveiled in Parliament SquareTuesday 24 April 2018Event: Friday 18 May 2018, 18:30 Suffrage 100 – Archives at night: Law breakers,...Behind the scenesHosting the Suffrage flagTuesday 20 February 2018This year marks 100 years since the passing of the Representation of the People...Records and researchThe Inter-Departmental Committee on AbortionThursday 26 October 2017This blog contains details that some readers may find distressing. ‘If abortion were necessarily fatal...Records and research‘Having fear of death before me’: life before the 1967 Abortion ActFriday 13 October 2017This blog contains details that some readers may find distressing. This year marks an important... 1 2 »