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In Wales, fear of witchcraft mounted around the year 1500. There was a growing alarm of women's magic as a weapon aimed against the state and church. The Church made greater efforts to enforce the canon law of marriage, especially in Wales where tradition allowed a wider range of sexual partnerships.
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which protected people from discrimination on the grounds of sex or marital status. The Act concerned employment, training, education, harassment, the provision of goods and services, and the disposal of premises.
Main article: History of women in the United Kingdom. The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) began as recently as the early 1960s. It began with the introduction of birth control pills. It was only provided to women who were wedded under the law to seek out contraceptive pills. Three years after the proposal, women were given the rights to ...
Paula Anne Vennells (born 21 February 1959) is a British former businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. She is also an ordained Anglican priest who ceased her clerical duties in 2021. Vennells was the CEO of Post Office Limited during the latter part of the British Post Office scandal ...
Lady Diana Cooper, from The Book of Fair Women by E. O. Hoppé, 1922 Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners was born at 23A Bruton Street in Mayfair , London, on 29 August 1892. [ 1 ] Her mother, who was a devotee of the author George Meredith , named her daughter after the titular character in Meredith's novel Diana of the Crossways . [ 2 ]
Elizabeth Bartlett (British poet) Susan Bassnett. Liz Berry. Tessa Biddington. Anna Blackwell. Valerie Bloom. Emma Scarr Booth. Marjorie Boulton. Andrea Brady.
The media have referred to her impact on British and American fashion as the "Kate Middleton effect". Time listed her as one of the most influential people in the world in 2011, 2012 and 2013. On 9 September 2022, she became Princess of Wales when William was created Prince of Wales by his father, King Charles III .
The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. [ 1 ] Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia ...