Votes for Women

by Diane Atkinson

In 1918 women in Britain finally won the vote after a long and determined fight. The struggle of these courageous women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is examined in Atkinson's new study. The author compares and contrasts two very different campaigns: the battle waged by the militant Suffragettes and the persistent though less well-known activities of the Suffragists who campaigned peacefully but doggedly for the vote. A handful of fascinating and previously unpublished photographs from the Museum of London Collection are dispersed throughout the text.

48 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1986

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

A slim but really informative intro to the suffragist and suffragette movements. Excellent photographs, cartoons, extracts from diaries, newspapers, propaganda. Amazing contrast in reporting between 'The Times' and 'Daily Express' Full of 'did you know?' details: horrors of force feeding, hostile tactics of Asquith & Churchill, women only given complete suffrage in Switzerland in 1971 (88 years after New Zealand) A timely reminder of what we owe to so few.

[Vicky Ashwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting short introduction covering the major events in the lead up to women gaining universal suffrage in the United Kingdom.