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Medieval England was a patriarchal society and the lives of women were heavily influenced by contemporary beliefs about gender and authority. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] However, the position of women varied according to factors including their social class ; whether they were unmarried, married, widowed or remarried; and in which part of the country they ...
1920: The Employment of Women, Young Persons, and Children Act 1920. 1928: Women received the vote on the same terms as men (over the age of 21), as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1928. 1929: The Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 was enacted; it is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It created the offence of ...
5 July – speed limit in Britain originally introduced by the Locomotive Act 1861 is reduced by the Locomotives Act 1865 – becoming 2 mph in town and 4 mph in the country. [5] 14 July – a party led by Edward Whymper makes the first ascent of the Matterhorn. [1]
5–30 April – 1920 blind march, a protest march of 250 blind men from across Britain to London. 10 April – West Bromwich Albion win the Football League title for the first time. [4] 20 April–12 September – Great Britain and Ireland compete at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp and win 15 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze medals.
New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics, and other Workingmen formed. [6] 9 January 1831 (England) Twenty-three workers from Buckingham were sentenced to death for destruction of a paper machine by one of a number of Special Commissions sent to East Anglia to suppress insurgent workers by the Whig Ministry. [7] 11 January 1831 (England)
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. That includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents .
She was imprisoned after heckling Winston Churchill. She left England after her release, eventually emigrating to the United States and settling in New York. She worked in the trade union movement and in 1920 became a full-time official of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union. In 2003, Mary's nieces donated her papers to New York University. [47]