Parliamentary Pioneers: Margaret Wintringham, the first Liberal Woman MP

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In this video made with the UK Parliamentary Archives and History of Parliament Trust we explore the life and career of Margaret Wintringham, the first Liberal woman MP and the second woman to take her seat in the House of Commons after the Conservative Nancy Astor.

Image credits:
0.38: Margaret Wintringham (née Longbottom) by Bassano Ltd, whole-plate glass negative, 22 October 1921, NPG x121190. © National Portrait Gallery, London. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
1.06 and 2.04: Note on the Louth by-election 1921. © Parliamentary Archives, LG/F/34/4/20.
1.21: In the Smoking-Room: The Division Bell Rings. Illustration for Living London edited by George Sims (Cassell, c 1900), © Look and Learn M814093
2.34: Margaret Wintringham and Nancy Astor, 1922. © The Women's Library at LSE.
3.12: Edith How-Martyn, 'The Need for Women Members of Parliament'. © University of Reading, Special Collections.
3.41: Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act 1925 © Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/PU/1/1925/15&16G5c70.
4.20: Guardianship of Infants bill 1924. © Parliamentary Archives, ST/56/3.
4.26 and 5.23: Margaret Wintringham (née Longbottom) by Lafayette, half-plate film negative, 23 February 1928, NPG x184745. © National Portrait Gallery, London. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
4.46: Equal Guardianship Act 1925. © Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/PU/1/1925/15&16G5c45.