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The article mentions the campaign of "Lady" magazine founder Thomas Gibson Bowles for the Attested Married Men's Protest Society, arguing that married men should not be forced to serve in the army before single men in Great Britain.

The article recalls the election of Tommy Lewis and Ralph Morley as Southampton, England's first Labour Members of Parliament in 1929.

This section describes views of then British Labour politician E. H. M. Stancomb on Southampton military service, physicians and government parsimony, and the meeting of local pub owners in the early 1920s.

The article reports that the turnpike between Dartford and Gravesend in England was closed on election day in 1734 in Great Britain.

The article offers information on an election in Handsworth, England in 1945 that featured women candidates Barbara Lewis and Jessie Eden.

The article briefly profiles former British member of Parliament (MP) Edith Wills.

The article profiles English politician Mary Pickford who served as a Member of Parliament in the 1930s, including brief details about birth, work during the First World War, and death.

The article offers a brief profile of Marjorie Graves, a British Conservative Party (Tory) member of Parliament (MP) representing the Hackney South district in the London, England, area in the 1930s.

The article offers a brief profiles of Ida Copeland, a British member of Parliament (MP) from the Conservative (Tory) Party in the 1930s representing Stoke, England.

The article discusses the career of British politician Dorothy Archibald, noting her study of economics and her seat on the London County Council in England.

The article offers brief biographical information on Sir William Tite, a member of the British Parliament representing Bath, England, in the second half of the 19th century and an architect who designed several London, England, railway stations.

The article profiles a woman named Elsbeth Dimsdale, dealing with topics including how she was an Oxford University graduate, how her father and three of her brothers had been MPs, and how during World War II she arranged for the evacuation of Children to Canada.

The article discusses the efforts of National Spinsters' Pensions Association founder Florence White in protecting middle-aged spinsters in Great Britain in the 1930s.

The article provides information on Parliament elections in Darwen, England in 1935 and 1943.

The article profiles Mabel Tylecote, the British Labour candidate in Middleton and Prestwich for the general election of 1940.

The article features Alice S G Brown who stood as independent in the by-election following the death of Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Frank Briant in 1934.

The article presents a short biography of former member of British parliament Violet Van der Elst.

The article offers information on Violet Van der Elst, a British woman who was born in Feltham, Great Britain, in 1882, made a fortune developing cosmetics, wrote the occult fiction "Death of the Vampire Baroness," and her stance on capital punishment.

The article offers information on candidates who have run for election as members of Parliament representing Caerphilly, Wales, such as Bowen Davies, Nelly Stoneham, and Grace Roberts.

The article discusses the participation of women in the 1929 election in Hythe, England, which included Labour politician Grace Colman and Liberal Hester Holland.

The article profiles Barbara Bodichon Ayrton-Gould, noting that she was a women's suffrage activist in the 1910s who co-founded the group United Suffragists and that she was a Labour Party British member of Parliament in the 1940s after several running unsuccessfully several times in the 1920s and 1930s.

The article offers a brief profile of the suffragette Esther Rickards, including her training as a doctor, her involvement in a 1913 suffragette protest at the New West End Synagogue in London, England and her speaking in a British Parliament House of Lords debate.

The article profiles Frances Louise Josephy, a 20th-century British politician who ran unsuccessfully for the British Parliament several times as a member of the Liberal Party, noting she was an advocate of world government and worked on an integrated European defense policy.

The article briefly profiles surgeon Percy McDougall who was an independent candidate for the British Parliament in the Rusholme, England, district in 1933 and 1935, noting he hoped to replace member of Parliament (MP) Frank Boyd Merriman and campaigned on issues related to land values.

The article looks at British members of Parliament and parliamentary candidates for the Rusholme district in Manchester, England, in the early 20th century, citing Robert Stoker, John Henry Thorpe, and Roger Bevan Crewdson and noting Crewdson was later editor of the journal "National Opinion."

The article briefly profiles British member of Parliament (MP) Charles Schreiber, who represented two English districts in the second half of the 19th century, citing his wife Charlotte Schreiber, a collector of ceramics and industrial manager, and his step-son Ivor, a parliamentary candidate.

The article presents a brief biographical profile of the 1935 English politician Reginald Kenney who ran for Parliamentary elections for the Bradford North constituency.

The article offers a brief profile of two 20th-century Liberal Party candidates for the British Parliament from the Sevenoaks, England, district, Bob Webster, a graphic artist and cartoonist, and Nelia Penman, née Muspratt, co-founder of the 8:30 Club debating society.

The article briefly profiles John Leighton, a losing British Parliamentary candidate for the St. Pancras North, England, constituency in the 1890s, noting he was a book illustrator and presenting his views on the copyright protection of photographs versus works of art.

The article presents a brief description of the 1920s English Labour Party political candidate Charles George Garton, including mention of his dressing habits and sexual behavior.

The article offers a brief profile of a British member of Parliament (MP), the nationalist Joseph Nannetti, a former union leader and mayor of Dublin, Ireland, who represented the College Green constituency in Dublin from 1900 until his death in 1915.

The article briefly profiles of British members of Parliament (MPs) and parliamentary candidates representing the City of London constituency in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noting the dominance of Conservative Party members, or Tories, and citing candidate Joseph Schuster.

The article looks at British members of Parliament (MPs) and parliamentary candidates representing Mansfield, England, noting that the district's Labour Party MP Frank Varley died in 1929 and citing those who ran to replace him, including Charles Brown for Labour and S. R. Sidebottom for the Unionists.

The article discusses various historical politicians that represented the district of Burslem in Great Britain, including J. W. Graham Peace who founded the Commonwealth League, which became the Commonwealth Land Party, Arthur Rowland-Entwistle and Labour Party politician Andrew MacLaren.

The article briefly profiles British members of Parliament (MPs) and parliamentary candidates for the Down, Ireland, district in the 1920s, including MPs David Reid and John Morrow Simms of the Ulster Unionist Party and candidate Michael Murney of the political party Sinn Féin.

The article looks at the British members of Parliament (MPs) and Parliamentary candidates for the East Fife, Scotland, district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, citing MP and British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, MP Alexander Sprot, and 1918 legislative candidate W. P. Morgan.

The author briefly recounts highlights from the political and military careers of A. E. Y. Trestrail, a former mayor of Torquay, England.

Presents the results of a survey conducted by `New Statesman' magazine concerning politicians who would be nominated for cabinet posts in Great Britain. Clement Attlee; William Whitelaw; Gordon Brown.

The article profiles the candidates for the British parliamentary seat in the Limehouse II district which were Clement Attlee, who would become British Prime minister, Conservative politician Richard Girouard, and taxi driver and writer Herbert Hodge.

The article offers a brief profile of former Labour Party British member of Parliament (MP) David Ensor, citing his book "Thirty Acres and a Cow" about his experience as a dairy farmer and his careers as a lawyer and as an actor.

The article offers brief profiles of Conservative Party, or Tory, British members of Parliament (MPs) who represented the Croydon area of London, England, from 1918 through the 1950s, World War I veteran Herbert Williams, historian H. A. L. Fisher, and explorer William Martin Conway.

The article briefly profiles Albert Sigismund Elwell-Sutton, a candidate for the British Parliament in the Croydon South, England, district, noting his World War I military service and his book "Humanity v. Unhumanity: A Criticism of the German Idea in Its Political and Philosophical Development."

The article presents a brief history of British members of Parliament (MPs) and candidates for the Derbyshire North East (NE) district in England in the 1920s, citing Labour Party MP Frank Lee, Liberal Party candidate Philip Guedalla, and Conservative Party candidate George Harland Bowden.

The article profiles former member of the British Parliament Major Harland Bowden, focusing on his service in the British army, his views on Protestants in Ulster, Northern Ireland, and his training as an engineer.