The National Council of Women exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain. Founded as the National Union of Women Workers, it said that it would "promote sympathy of thought and purpose among the women of Great Britain and Ireland".
History
It was founded in 1895. It changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain & Ireland in 1918. In 1928 it changed its name to the National Council of Women of Great Britain.
Its early archives are held in the London Metropolitan University: Trades Union Congress Library Collections.
H. Pearl Adam published Women in Council, the history of the National Council of Women of Great Britain, in 1945.
Notable members
Presidents
- 1895: Louise Creighton
- 1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
- 1899:
- 1900: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
- 1901: Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
- 1902: Lady Constance Battersea
- 1903: Mary Clifford
- 1905: Elizabeth Cadbury
- 1907: Mrs Edwin Gray
- 1909:
- 1910: Lady Laura Ridding
- 1911: Mrs Alan Bright
- 1913:
- 1916: Maria Ogilvie Gordon
- 1920: Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne
- 1921: Frances Balfour
- 1923: Mrs George Morgan
- 1925: Henrietta Franklin
- 1928: Florence Ada Keynes
- 1931: Lady Trustram Eve
- 1933: Eva Hartree
- 1937: Ruth Balfour
- 1938: A. F. Johnston
- 1940: E. Wilhelmina Ness
- 1941: Home Peel
- 1943: E. Wilhelmina Ness
- 1945:
- 1953: Kathleen Freeman
- 1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat
- 1957: Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading
- 1959: Joan Robins
- 1962: Norah Dean
- 1964: Kathleen Baxter
- 1966: Joan Boulind
- 1968: Guinevere Tilney
- 1970:
- 1972: Margaret Lampard
- 1974: Kay Fox
- 1976: Helen Waldsax
- 1978: Diane Reid
- 1980: Margaret Wingfield
- 1984: Mary Mayne
- 1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin
- 1988: Rosalind Preston
- 1990: Elizabeth Bavidge
- 1992: Patience Purdy
- 1994: Jean Clark
- 1996:
- 2008: Sheila Eaton
- 2012: Elsie Leadley
- 2014: Gwenda Nicholas
- 2017: Andrena Telford
Other members
Eminent members have included:
- Henrietta Barnett
- Nina Boyle
- Lucy Cavendish
- Emily Janes
- Antonella Kerr, Marchioness of Lothian
- Margaret MacDonald
- Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach
- Dorothy Peto
- Guinevere Tilney
- Laura Veale — founder and president of Harrogate branch
- Beatrice Webb
- Florence Mildred White
- Margaret Wintringham
References
- Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding , Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 Nov 2017
- Ridding, Laura. "Socities [sic] Which Help Women And Children. No. 1. The National Union Of Woman Workers". chestofbooks.com. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- "National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland". Archives Hub. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
- Bain, G. S.; Woolven, Gillian B.; Woolven, G. B. (29 March 1979). A Bibliography of Industrial Relations. CUP Archive. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-521-21547-3.
- ^ Glick, Daphne (1995). The National Council of Women of Great Britain: the first one hundred years. National Council of Women of Great Britain. ISBN 978-0900915079.
- ^ NUWW Annual Reports 1899-1901 TUC Library Collections, London Metropolitan University GB1924 HD6079
- ^ "NCW News" (PDF). National Council of Women. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ^ "NCW elects a new president". National Council of Women. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
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