women over the age of 30 who met a minimum property requirement could vote in a parliamentary election. This election came at “a time of considerable confusion in British politics,” wrote ...

Freda Bedi lived an unusual life. Born in a small town in England, she moved to India for love and ended up joining the independence movement. Her biographer, Andrew Whitehead, writes about her ...

Women were one such section ... The Russian Revolution of 1917 highlighted to British politicians the strength of the masses and their ability to force change if it was not peacefully forthcoming.