Women Win Vote 1918 Centenary. Blog 22 of 100 on Votes for Women 1866-1918
1897-1901: Esther Roper revitalised the Manchester Society for Women’s Suffrage, which had lacked direction since the death of early leading …
1897-1901: Esther Roper revitalised the Manchester Society for Women’s Suffrage, which had lacked direction since the death of early leading …
1901 – by the turn of the century various women’s suffrage societies had been combined to form the National Union …
1899/1901 – Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, now a widow, had to resign from her voluntary work on a Board of Guardians …
1898: One of women’s suffrage’s most important and ardent male supporters, Richard Pankhurst, died. He had been involved in winning …
1890’s: Just as Asquith was to stop women getting the vote during the time of the Suffragettes, Gladstone did likewise …
1893: But for disingenuous MP’s putting power and party politics ahead of their own beliefs (no change there then!), Britain’s …
1889: It wasn’t just men who were hampering suffragists. In 1889 an appeal against women’s suffrage was signed by 104 …
Blog 14: The 1886 General Election resulted in a Conservative government without an overall majority having to rely for support …
1888 – Suffrage campaigner Annie Besant published an article entitled “White Slavery in London,” detailing the appalling conditions women were …
1884: Suffragists had been told by the Liberal government they intended to introduce a new Reform Bill which included a …