#mpmonday — Public Fediverse posts
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It's #MPMonday and this #WHM23 we are looking at Jennie Lee. Elected MP for North Lanarkshire during a by-election in March 1929, Lee was just 24. The Equal Franchise Act (reducing the voting age to 21) didn't come into effect until the general election in May, making Lee below voting age when elected!
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During a parliamentary debate on whether King James I truly intended to honour his guarantee of free speech, Alford called for a cessation of all business ‘until we shall be a free Parliament’. with guaranteed free speech. Find out about his career: https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/alford-edward-15656-1631
@histodons @histodon #17thCentury #FreeSpeech #MPMonday #JamesI
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‘How is it possible for a blind man to be a Member of Parliament?’, demanded the Evening Mail in 1860. He relied on family, friends & hired secretaries to assist him, before marrying Millicent.
Fawcett served as MP for Brighton, 1865-74, and for Hackney from 1874 until his death in 1884.