Talk:William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford

Flappers
We seem to have a little dispute about Jix's role in the 1928 Voting Act. The article contained a claim, cited to a 1933 biography, that it is a myth that the government's pledge to reduce the female voting age was anything much to do with him. However, the ODNB (2004), says that he did play a key role.

The first generation of historical writing usually consists of unpicking the fibs which politicians tell in their memoirs and examining the documents to find out what was really being written at the time. Under normal circumstances a work by a scholar in 2004 would obviously strongly be preferred to a claim made in somebody's official biography, written seventy years previously, shortly after his death and when lots of the key people were still alive. However, I don't have enough information to get to the bottom of the matter - the ODNB certainly contains errors and it is far from impossible that the writer on Joynson-Hicks may just be repeating myths. I have therefore left both versions in the article for the time being. A more detailed work on the Baldwin government may shed some light.Paulturtle (talk) 12:53, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

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