Only 40% of British women actually won the right to vote in 1918. Who were the women who missed out and, 100 years on, how universal is suffrage today?

... women who might vote in Britain was not being raised. They were not there to ... Barbara Beese, who part of the protest, was the only woman that was ...

... women and most people without property – did not qualify. Meanwhile, the ... With under a third of its MPs female, the UK still lags behind most western European ...

George Lansbury was the Labour Party MP for Bow & Bromley, and is one of the best known male supporters of women's suffrage. In 1912 he resigned his seat in the ...

1780-1848) was the first woman to publicly protest against the absence of women's rights in England. ... Women over 21 would have the right to vote and Article 3 ...

The Suffrage Atelier did not require ... London Museum. Explore more. Related theme. Road to Equality. Celebrating the stories behind women's rights in the UK.

One hundred years on from the first women getting the vote, 14-18 NOW and Artichoke, the UK's largest producer of art in the public realm, invite women* and ...

... vote, the NWSA did not because it neglected women. In 1890, however, both organizations merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association ...

... make its own decision to ordain women. In 1971 Jane Hwang and Joyce Bennett were ordained in Hong Kong. Joyce was the first British born woman to be ordained.

... Votes for Women” variety was the most widely used of any suffrage pin. ... did the WSPU in England. The 19th century items pictured below, a mock-up ...

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first British woman to qualify as a doctor. Instead of the Rod of Asclepius (a snake entwined around a rod – the symbol associated ...

A nationwide women's suffrage pilgrimage involving women walking from all corners of England for a rally in Hyde Park on 26 July 1913.

While London was the centre of the English women's suffrage movement, women in other parts of southern England and the Midlands also played vital roles.

One hundred years on from the first women getting the vote, 14-18 NOW and Artichoke, the UK's largest producer of art in the public realm, invite women* and ...

100 years on, how have women changed the face of the UK Parliament? ... The watershed 1918 general election took place on 14 December, shortly after the end of ...

... UK capitals, to celebrate 100 years of votes for women. 100 ... The group created a banner celebrating the centenary of the first women to get the vote.

2018 marks 100 years since some women in Britain got the vote. Nowadays the ... "It may have been, probably was, the wrong time to do it; it was ...

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North LDN WMN. Remembering north London women, from suffrage campaigners to cultural icons, and a British Muslim war hero · Online Exhibit. East LDN WMN.

Later known as Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, she was the first woman in Britain to gain a medical qualification. Elizabeth's impressive list of ...