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Há 3 dias · May 28, 2024. One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress enacted the most notorious immigration legislation in American history. Signed by President Calvin Coolidge, the Immigration Act of 1924 ...
Há 5 dias · The petition was an appeal for global peace, from the women of Wales to the women of America. This whirlwind US visit was the culmination of a six-month campaign that had seen more than 400 local ...
Há 5 dias · ‘Trudie’ as she was familiarly known, took on leading roles in a number of organisations, including the Women’s Institute Movement, the National Birth Control Council and the Women’s Land Army. She also provided financial support to many organisations, including the Liberal party, to which she was politically affiliated.
Há 4 dias · While petitioning gave women the opportunity to start a conversation with the Houses of Parliament, the Ventilator and the Ladies’ Gallery allowed them to observe the debates playing out. During the long 18th century, the admission of women to Parliament as spectators was contested and debated. In the early 19th century, a compromise was reached.
Há 5 dias · Briony McDonagh estimates that over 10 per cent of land in Georgian Britain was owned by female landowners. Assuming her sample of 250,000 acres to be representative of broader patterns and trends, McDonagh surmises that ‘somewhere in excess of 3 million acres in England were owned by women in the later eighteenth century and more than 6 million acres in Great Britain as a whole’ (p. 27).
Há 5 dias · Female Garment Workers Labor in a New York City Tenement. Concentrated in New York City, the garment industry developed side by side with the sweatshop system of labor. Sweatshops employed a handful of workers, almost all of whom were immigrant Jewish or Italian women. They were supervised by contractors of their own nationality, mostly men ...
Há 4 dias · Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image.
