‘A Most Independent Member: Eleanor Rathbone MP’ by Susan Cohen
2,148 views · Published 5 October 2016 · 54:23 · Indexed 22 September 2026
Channel: UK Parliament · 2016 · News & Politics
International Women’s Day Lecture: March 2016 ‘A Most Independent Member: Eleanor Rathbone MP (1872 - 1946)’ by Dr Susan Cohen. Introductions by Charlotte Mallon, winner of the Great Debate 2015, and Caroline Nokes MP, Chair of the Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art. The subject of this year’s Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art International Women’s Day Lecture is Eleanor Rathbone. Rathbone is an unsung heroine of the twentieth century and 2016 marks the 70th anniversary of her death. This lecture by Dr Susan Cohen, historian and author of ‘Rescue the Perishing: Eleanor Rathbone and the Refugees’, (2010) and co-founder of the Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Group, celebrates Rathbone's life and embraces her diverse humanitarian activism as well as her courage as one of the few female politicians of the time. International Women’s Day is held yearly in March, and is celebrated during Women’s History Month with a series of various talks and lectures at the Palace of Westminster. For more information, see Women’s History Month 2016.
More from this channel
-
1:20
House of Commons Transport Committee: Role of the Committee
-
1:08
House of Commons Justice Committee: The role of the Committee
-
1:55:11
Youth Select Committee 28 June 2013 AM Session
-
37:14
#AskPickles | 22 January 2014 | Communities and Local Government Committee
-
4:42
The role of the Committee | House of Commons Administration Committee
-
1:05
Evidence Check: Starting School
-
4:52
Access to the Parliamentary Archives
-
2:31
Prime Minister's Questions: New MP Ruth George asks her first question