The fight for women's suffrage in the UK - Feminism & Womens Rights

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by Paul Lines

The UK suffrage movement in the UK is commonly associated with the times of Emily Pankhurst. However, it actually started over a century before her time. Many attribute its modern origins to a the works of Mary Wollstonecr...read more
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by Christopher Luke

Whilst women worldwide celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March each year, 2008 like all years is no exception in the sense that it marks a number of significant anniversaries, most notably the 90th Anniversary o...read more

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by Wendy Bradley

Women in Britain started their battle for the vote in the early 20th Century. The battle was long and women suffered much. The movement grew fast though and from the point of the view of the establishment, the 'problem' ju...read more
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by Phil Hill

Women in the UK were not legally barred from voting in elections until the 1832 Suffrage Reform Act, a position reiterated by the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. So any investigation of the fight for women to claim the ri...read more
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by Melissa Zienkiewicz

In the UK, just before WW1, women were going through hell to fight for their rights. Whilst suffragists were writing rather angry letters, suffragettes were chaining theirselves to things, breaking windows, and committing ...read more

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