From the first petition to the first female MP, follow the key events during the campaign for female suffrage.
Footnotes
[1] ‘Imperial parliament of Great Britain and Ireland’, Morning Chronicle, (No. 19,638, 4 August 1832), p. 1.
[2] ‘The Women’s Suffrage Question’, Morning Post (No. 29,438, 16 April 1868), p. 7.
[3] M A Butler and J Templeton, ‘The Isle of Man and the First Votes for Women’, Women & Politics (4:2, 1984), pp. 33–47.
[4] J Marlow, ed., Suffragettes: The Fight for Votes for Women (London, 2000).
[5] ‘Another Suffragist Raid’, Morning Post (No. 42,065, 21 March 1907), p. 7.
[6] Jill Liddington, Rebel Girls, (London, 2006), p. 67.
[7] KevinGrant, ‘British Suffragettes and the Russian Method of Hunger Strike’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 53, no. 1 (2011), pp. 113–143.
[8] Paula Bartley, Votes for Women, 1860-1928 (Oxon, 2003), p. 85.
[9] ‘An Act to provide for the Temporary Discharge of Prisoners whose further detention in prison is undesirable on account of the condition of their health’, 1913 Cat and Mouse Act, Parliamentary Archives, HL/PO/PU/1/1913/3&4G5c4 (1913).
[10] Leslie Parker Hume, The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies 1897-1914 (London, 1982), pp.198–99.
[11] Julia Bush, Women against the vote: Female anti-suffragism in Britain (Oxford, 2007), p. 3.
[12] Gail Braybon, Women workers in the First World War (Oxon, 2012).
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