Author: Jad Adams

During the 1890s, British women for the first time began to leave their family homes to seek work, accommodation, and financial and sexual freedom....

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, ...

The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil di...