SEX AND GENDER
Manuscript Sources from the Public Record Office
Part 2: Empire and Suffrage (FO, HO, LAB, LO, PREM, T and WO files)
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FO 371/3715:
Nationalist Disturbances in Egypt in 1919; Madame Saad Zaghlul Pasha; Reports and Papers for 1919
FO 371/17883:
Palestine and Transjordan, 1934: including a Protest of the Jewish Women Workers of Palestine against the New Municipal Ordinance which deprived the Women of Palestine of their Civic Rights, May 1934 (see especially E3421 folios 139-146)
REEL 20
FO 371/21875:
Palestine: Internal Matters, 1938: including material on Arab ladies of Jerusalem
FO 371/23966:
Dominions and the war effort; intelligence matters; telegrams; Inter-Dominion co-operation; papers relating to Canada, India, Rhodesia, New Zealand and China, 1939
FO 371/67488B:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1947
FO 371/67615:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1947: Resolutions and statistics
FO 371/67616:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1947: Questionnaire results: UK and Burma
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FO 371/67617:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1947: Questionnaire results from all colonial territories
FO 371/67618A:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1947: Questionnaire results from all colonial territories
FO 371/67827:
Liberia: female suffrage in Liberia, 1947
FO 371/72816:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1948: general papers
FO 371/72817:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1948: general papers
FO 371/72818:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1948: UK and the Colonies: Nationality and Status of Women
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FO 371/72819:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1948: marriage, education and pay
FO 371/72820:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1948: marriage, nationality and taxes
FO 371/72821:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1948: civil liberties, civil service, military, taxation
FO 371/78924:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1949: including questionnaires covering the Colonies
FO 371/78925:
UN: Status of Women Commission, 1949: including memorandum on the status of women in the Colonies
FO 371/88773:
UN questionnaire on the status of women, 1950
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FO 371/88774:
UN questionnaire on the status of women, 1950
FO 371/90795:
Cuba: Law concerning equal civil rights of women in Cuba, 1951
FO 371/97702:
Bolivia: establishment of universal suffrage, 1952
FO 371/107134:
UN Commission on the Status of Women; opening of Convention on the Political Rights of Women for signature, March 1953; Draft Convention on Nationality of Married Women, 1953 (Folder 1)
FO 371/107135:
UN Commission on the Status of Women; opening of Convention on the Political Rights of Women for signature, March 1953; Draft Convention on Nationality of Married Women, 1953 (Folder 2)
FO 371/107143:
Notes on the Proceedings in the UN General Assembly Third Committee dealing with self-determination, political rights of women, freedom of information, refugees and the Report of the ECOSOC; papers of the Commission on the Status of Women; opening of Convention on the Political Rights of Women for signature, March 1953; Draft Convention on Nationality of Married Women, 1953
FO 371/109261:
Paraguay: Legislation according civil rights to women in Paraguay, 1954; Womens Political Rights in Latin America, 1954
FO 371/112484:
Work of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1954
FO 371/119713:
Libya: Position of women in Cyrenaica, 1956
FO 371/123797:
UK ratification of the UN Convention on Political Rights of Women, 1956
FO 371/129968:
UN Convention on Political Rights of Women, 1957
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FO 371/129972:
UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1957 and UN Draft Convention on Nationality of Married Women, 1957
FO 371/129973:
UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1957: much material on Latin America
FO 371/129974:
UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1957
FO 371/129975:
UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1957
FO 371/129976:
UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1957
FO 371/145417:
UN Convention on Political Rights of Women, 1959; Thirteenth Session of UNGA; UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1959
FO 371/145419:
UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1959, general papers (Folder 1)
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FO 371/145420:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1959, general papers (Folder 2)
FO 371/145421:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1959, general papers (Folder 3)
FO 371/145422:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1959, general papers (Folder 4)
FO 371/145423:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1959, especially replies to questionnaires; good responses regarding Tanganyika, Gambia, Nigeria and the Cameroons (Folder 5)
FO 371/145424:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1959, especially replies to questionnaires (Folder 6)
FO 371/172744:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1963 (Folder 1)
FO 371/172745:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1963 (Folder 2)
FO 371/172746:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women, 1963 (Folder 3)
FO 371/178305:
UN: Human Rights: political freedom for women, 1964
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FO 371/178310:
Future of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1964; questions regarding UK representation, 1964
FO 371/178442:
UN: Human Rights; Status of Women; Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1964
FO 371/183659:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women: Meeting in Tehran, 1965 (Folder 1)
FO 371/183660:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women: Meeting in Tehran, 1965 (Folder 2)
FO 371/183661:
UN: Commission on the Status of Women: Meeting in Tehran, 1965 (Folder 3)
REEL 27
FO 371/189941:
UN: Convention on Political Rights for Women, 1966
FO 371/189948:
UN seminars on Human Rights in Developing Countries: papers on women in public life, human rights and apartheid. (Folder 1)
FO 371/189949:
UN seminars on Human Rights in Developing Countries: papers on women in public life, human rights and apartheid. (Folder 2)
REEL 28
FO 371/189950:
UN seminars on Human Rights in Developing Countries: papers on women in public life, human rights and apartheid. This file has particularly good material on Apartheid. (Folder 3)
FO 371/189951:
UN Commission on Status of Women, 1966 (Folder 1)
FO 371/189952:
UN Commission on Status of Women, 1966 (Folder 2)
FO 371/189953:
UN Commission on Status of Women, 1966 (Folder 3)
HO 44/34:
London Society for the Protection of Young Females and Prevention of Juvenile Prostitution: Printed pamphlet on the Society, February 1839. J B Talbot, Secretary [folios 223-230 only]
HO 45/1892:
Police: Apprehension of Prostitutes, 1847
HO 45/5166:
Police: Annoyance by Prostitutes in the street, 1853-1854
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HO 45/6628:
Prostitution: London street prostitution and brothels, 1857-1858
HO 45/7370:
Prostitution: Nightly prostitution in refreshment houses, 1862
HO 45/9547/59343L:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Reports of Local Government Board Inspectors, 1885
HO 45/9575/80993:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women); Police authority to prevent use of Music and Dancing Rooms by prostitutes, 1879
HO 45/9740/A55536:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Vice in Garrison Towns; Proposed Legislation, 1893-1896
HO 45/9745/A56729:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Proposed bill of 1895 to amend Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885
HO 45/9784/B2917:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Vagrant Act Amendment Bill, 1888-1889 (folder 1)
HO 45/9785/B2917A:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Vagrant Act Amendment Bill, 1888-1889 (folder 2)
HO 45/9964/X15663:
Prostitution and White Slave Traffic; Contagious Diseases Act (Women): Difficulty experienced by Police in obtaining convictions of prostitutes unless supported by persons annoyed, 1887-1889
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HO 45/10390/171419:
Aliens: Expulsion of alien prostitutes, 1908
HO 45/11072/387653:
Prostitution and Allied Offences: League of Nations: International Convention on the Traffic in women and children, 1919-1922
HO 45/11574/419359:
Elections: Women's Enfranchisement Bill, 1922; Representation of the People's Bills, 1922-1924; Papers for 1920-1924
HO 45/12998/437063:
Elections: Wives of persons residing in a University College or Hall: Entitlement to parliamentary franchise, 1922-1928
REEL 31
HO 45/13020/474274:
Equal Franchise Committee, 1927-1928 (Parts I and II; 2 folders)
REEL 32
HO 45/16914:
Prostitution and Allied Offences: White Slave Traffic Convention, Paris 1910: extradition of offenders, 3 April 1913 7 January 1929
HO 45/16915:
Prostitution and Allied Offences: White Slave Traffic Convention, Paris 1910: extradition of offenders, 30 October 1929 4 March 1937
REEL 33
HO 45/17510:
Prostitution and Allied Offences: Traffic in women and children: International Convention, Geneva, 1933
HO 45/20163:
Nationality and Naturalisation: Home Office representation on Conference on the operation of Dominion Legislation and Merchant Shipping Legislation, 1929: Memoranda in connection with nationality matters; extra territorial effect of British Nationality Law; papers for 1927-1930, including Minutes of Meetings of the Conference on the Operation of Dominion Legislation, 1929
HO 291/122:
Foreign laws and practice; prostitution in India, 1919-1954
LAB 11/864:
Linen and cotton handkerchiefs: manufacturing shawls or quilts for native women from fents and tabs of cotton, 1929
REEL 34
LAB 13/2106:
United Nations: Draft declaration on Elimination of Discrimination against Women, 1963-1967
LAB 13/2415:
United Nations: Convention on the Political Rights of Women, notes and papers, 1965-1968
LAB 13/2422:
United Nations: seminar in Mongolia on the Participation of Women in the Field of Public Life, Ulan Bator, 1965: Note by Ministry of Labour
LAB 13/2429:
United Nations: Commission on the Status of Women: notes and papers, 1965-1967
LO 3/411:
Suffragette prisoners, May 1912
LO 3/439:
Forcible feeding of suffragettes, March 1913
LO 3/1151:
The Government of India Act, November 1936 (S.292)
PREM 1/14:
India: Sir Austen Chamberlains correspondence with Sir Michael ODwyer on the Punjab, 1921
PREM 1/40:
India: Deputation on Dominion Status for India: material by Annie Besant, 1924
PREM 1/58:
India: Statutory Commission and legislation involved, 1927
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PREM 1/216:
India: Discussion with Secretary of State for India on British policy, 1937
PREM 1/270:
India: Memorandum by Lord Lothian on India, 1938
PREM 1/271:
India: Viceroy of Indias views on situation in India, 1938
PREM 8/58:
India:Talks with Sir Evan Jenkins (Private Secretary to the Viceroy) about the situation in India, 1945
PREM 8/59:
India: Consideration of sending a plenipotentiary to India, 1945
PREM 8/247:
India: Manuscript letters from Lord Pethwick Lawrence reporting progress made by Cabinet in India, 1946
PREM 8/549:
Governors General for India and Pakistan: Lord Mountbattens appointment as Governor General of India, 1947
PRO 30/69/1817:
Papers of Ramsay MacDonald: Pamphlet [just one item; pamphlet numbered 333.12]
The Relation of Women to Municipal Reform: An Address made by Herbert Welsh at a meeting of the Friday Morning Class, February 23, 1894, printed by the Civic Club of Philadelphia.
PRO 30/69/1834:
Papers of Ramsay MacDonald: Printed Pamphlets on the Suffrage Question, c1832-1936
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T 161/88/S.6661:
Medical: Diseases: Contribution by Colonies to the Tropical Diseases Research Fund, 1920-1930 [just one sub-file numbered S.6661]
T 161/232/S.23957/04:
Emigration: Empire Settlement Act, 1922: memorandum of decisions of Imperial Conference on Australia, November 1926-June 1927 [just one sub-file numbered S.23957/04]
T 161/232/S.23957/06:
Emigration: Empire Settlement Act, 1922: Domestic Training Centre in England for women intending to settle in Australia as household workers, June 1927-February 1930 [just one sub-file numbered S.23957/06]
T 172/106:
Deputations from Womens Tax Resistance League, 1913
T 172/110:
Womens Suffrage: Deputation from Working Women Suffragists, 1913
T 172/968B:
Miscellaneous memoranda including deputations on women's enfranchisement, 1910-1914
T 172/1574:
Deputation from the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee to discuss the Enfranchisement of Women, 1927
WO 32/5940:
Medical: Compulsory prophylactic treatment for venereal disease for troops in India, 1925
WO 32/11401:
Medical: Measures to reduce incidence of venereal disease among overseas troops in the United Kingdom. Copies of Reports of Imperial Conference and Minutes of Conference at the Home Office on this subject, 1917-1918
WO 33/12:
Report of the Committee upon venereal disease in the army and navy, 1863 [part of volume only; folios 87-99]
WO 33/17A:
Report of Committee to inquire into treatment and prevention of venereal disease in the army and navy, 1863 [part of volume only; folios 76-95]
WO 33/40:
Remarks on, and precis of various suggestions for the prevention of contagious venereal diseases, 1883 [part of volume only; just item (21); folios 241-254]
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