Participant Info
- First Name
- Mari
- Last Name
- Takayanagi
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- mari@maritakayanagi.com
- Affiliation
- Independent Scholar
- Website URL
- maritakayanagi.com
- Keywords
- women's history, Parliament, archives, suffrage, suffragettes, politics, legislation, law, House of Commons, House of Lords, women MPs, working women, Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminster
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian, archivist, author and heritage professional, with particular expertise on women, politics and Parliament from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries.
After 25 years working in the Parliamentary Archives, I am now working as a freelancer, available for research, writing, talks, media appearances, and archives and heritage work.
I’m currently researching Parliament, women and politics c. 1918-1945 with a view to celebrating the centenary of Equal Franchise in 2028.
- Recent Publications
Books:
Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith, Necessary Women: the Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women (History Press, hardback 2023; paperback 2025)
Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying, edited by Rosemary Auchmuty, Erika Rackley and Mari Takayanagi (Hart Publishing, 2024)
Articles and chapters:
Mari Takayanagi, ‘Suffrage Centenaries’ in The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage, ed. K. Cowman (Routledge, 2024).
Mari Takayanagi, ‘The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919; its origins, passage and significance for working women’, in The Evolution of the Gender Pay Gap: A Comparative Perspective, eds. F. Hamilton and E. Griffiths, (Routledge, 2023).
Mari Takayanagi, ‘The UK Parliament as a historical space for women’, in Parliament Buildings: the architecture of politics in Europe, eds. S. Psarra, C. Sternberg and U. Staiger (UCL Press, 2023).
Mari Takayanagi, ‘Astor the Fairy Godmother: The Intoxicating Liquor Act 1923’, Open Library of Humanities Journal, 6:2 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.567
- Media Coverage
- BBC Six o'Clock News, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, Parliament Matters podcast, Red Box Politics podcast, Blue Peter
- Social Media
- Mari Takayanagi on LinkedIn
- Country Focus
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Geography
- England, United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, Modern, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Government, Libraries & Archives, Politics, Women
