She also opposed restrictive women's clothing: as a matter of practicality, she did not wear a hat or make-up, preferred flat shoes, and kept her hair short.

After the war, she moved to Oxford with her husband and taught economic history at Somerville College and Lady Margaret Hall.

Stocks contested the London University seat at the 1945 general election as an Independent Progressive.

The by-election was caused by the death of Eleanor Rathbone (president of the NUSEC, whose biography Stocks wrote in 1949).

Stocks obtained wider public recognition in later life, when she became a radio broadcaster and appeared frequently on Any Questions?, on quiz shows and gave religious talks.

[3] She eventually retired to the House of Lords, having been created a life peer as Baroness Stocks, of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on 17 January 1966,[4] where she initially took the Labour Party whip before becoming a cross-bencher in 1974.

[1] She was commissioned to write a book on the first 50 years of the WEA (Workers Educational Association) which had been founded in 1903, published in 1953.

[6] In them she talks about her participation in the NUWSS and reasons for joining, as well as her relationships with other prominent names in the suffrage movement, such as Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Philippa Strachey and Elizabeth Macadam.