The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the suffrage movement. This collection includes personal papers of suffragists and suffragettes, records ...

However, if the parliamentary vote remained the elusive holy-grail for suffragists in the United Kingdom in 1913, they had still achieved many rights for women since 1867. Crucially, the suffrage ...

Last week, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution authorizing the placement of a monument honoring the women’s suffrage ...

Women's suffrage was the work of many hands, and two tapestries that celebrate Australia's part in that story, and that were ...

Race also played a part in women’s experiences of the suffrage movement. The suffragettes were mostly made up of white women but many women from ethnic minorities were active campaigners.

Race also played a part in women’s experiences of the suffrage movement. The suffragettes were mostly made up of white women but many women from ethnic minorities were active campaigners.

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

After seven years of legislative effort to make it happen and 128 years after she became the country’s first female state ...

In 1867 the all-male House of Commons at Westminster rejected John Stuart Mill’s amendment to 1867 Franchise Reform Act to allow women the vote ... of formal suffrage societies across England ...

Anthony stepped down as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association ... Pioneers of the movement, Susan B. Anthony among them, had to content themselves with slow but steady ...

It was officially inaugurated as the Library of the London Society for Women’s Service in 1926 and it had two aims: to preserve the history of the women’s suffrage movement and to provide a resource ...

But for many thousands of women, it was not a moment of celebration. Known as the anti-suffrage movement, these women had been working to oppose the suffragettes. They believed women didn't have ...