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The Women Who Fought for the Vote
Ireland's Suffragettes is a collection of biographical essays introducing the suffragettes who influenced Ireland's struggle for women's rights. Many of the women were political activists while others became militant suffragettes between 1912 and 1914. The struggle of the suffragettes is different to that of the UK, in that many Irish suffragettes were also included in the struggle for independence and the inclusion of women in the trade unions movement. Drawing on primary sources located in the National Archives and the National Library, Ireland's Suffragettes will bring to life not only the most famous names in the suffragette movement but also the other women who made women's rights their lives work.
7th March, 2018 in Women in History
International Women’s Day had a special significance for women in Britain in 2018. A century earlier the Representation of the People Act gave some women in Britain the chance to vote in parliamentary election for the very first time. But the struggle for women’s rights has a lon…
24th November, 2017 in Society & Culture, Women in History
Women in Britain aged over 30 got the vote in 1918, but they weren’t the first women to vote in Britain. Political history is often dominated by characters who have certain things in common; they are well-connected, well-educated, wealthy. Lily Maxwell was none of thes…
19th July, 2016 in Society & Culture, Women in History
The Women’s Suffrage Pilgrimage of July 1913 was a peaceful march designed to show the British government the sheer number of women from across the country who demanded the right to vote. Members of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) set off on foot, or some…
18th December, 2015 in Local & Family History, Military, Society & Culture, Women in History
In popular accounts of the outbreak of the First World War in Britain, mention is sometimes made of the fact that the Women’s Social and Political Union suspended their militant campaign for the vote to take up an intensely nationalist, pro-war agenda. Sylvia Pankhurst and the ra…
16th December, 2015 in Local & Family History, Women in History
Women have struggled to gain equal rights for centuries. The question of women’s voting rights finally became a core issue in the 19th century, with the struggle particularly intense in Great Britain and the United States. The suffragette movements of the late 19th and 20th Centu…
