In 1918 the Representation of the People Act granted some women the right to vote in parliamentary elections, and the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 gave men and women equal voting rights for the first time. Explore short articles and examine scrapbooks, political pamphlets, photographs and posters to discover how suffragists and suffragettes campaigned for this democratic right.
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Maud Arncliffe Sennett's scrapbook, volume 5
22 August - 31 October 1908
Photograph of Christabel Pankhurst
c. 1912 - 1916
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