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The National Council of Women exists to co-ordinate the voluntary efforts of women across Great Britain.
[1] 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".
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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.
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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.
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1895:
Louise Creighton
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1897: Mrs Alfred Booth
1899:
1900:
Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
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1901:
Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
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1902:
Lady Constance Battersea
1903:
Mary Clifford
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1905:
Elizabeth Cadbury
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1907:
Mrs Edwin Gray
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1909:
1910:
Lady Laura Ridding
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1911: Mrs Alan Bright
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1913:
1916:
Maria Ogilvie Gordon
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1920:
Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne
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1921:
Frances Balfour
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1923: Mrs George Morgan
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1925:
Henrietta Franklin
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1928:
Florence Ada Keynes
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1931:
Lady Trustram Eve
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1933:
Eva Hartree
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1937: Ruth Balfour
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1938: A. F. Johnston
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1940:
E. Wilhelmina Ness
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1941: Home Peel
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1943:
E. Wilhelmina Ness
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1945:
1953: Kathleen Freeman
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1955: Mrs Stanley Moffat
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1957:
Eva Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading
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1959:
Joan Robins
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1962: Norah Dean
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1964:
Kathleen Baxter
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1966:
Joan Boulind
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1968:
Guinevere Tilney
1970:
1972: Margaret Lampard
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1974: Kay Fox
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1976: Helen Waldsax
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1978: Diane Reid
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1980:
Margaret Wingfield
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1984: Mary Mayne
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1986: Evelyn Fairfax Martin
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1988: Rosalind Preston
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1990: Elizabeth Bavidge
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1992: Patience Purdy
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1994: Jean Clark
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1996:
2008: Sheila Eaton
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2012: Elsie Leadley
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2014: Gwenda Nicholas
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2017: Andrena Telford
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Eminent members have included:
^ Serena Kelly, ‘Ridding , Lady Laura Elizabeth (1849–1939)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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"Socities [sic ] Which Help Women And Children. No. 1. The National Union Of Woman Workers" . chestofbooks.com . Retrieved 24 September 2020 .
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"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.
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"NCW News" (PDF) . National Council of Women . Retrieved 15 June 2018 .
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"NCW elects a new president" . National Council of Women . Retrieved 15 June 2018 .