On the Wrong Side of History
A celebrated novelist and tireless social reformer, Mary Ward has been all but forgotten because of her support for the anti-suffrage movement.
Suffragettes
Sisters In Arms: Race, Empire and Women’s Suffrage
The women’s suffrage movement was global, but racial inequality often undermined the notion of universal sisterhood.
Fighting Across Borders
The national campaign for suffrage saw women forming societies from Land’s End to John O’Groats.
Feminist Energy vs Vehement Opposition
Four new studies challenge familiar tropes to consider some important but lesser-known areas of the women’s suffrage movement.
Votes for All!
Why did only some women get the vote in 1918 and what did they do with it?
The Suffragette Songstress
Ethel Smyth took on the forces of inequality, in both politics and culture, producing highly acclaimed works of music that are now all but forgotten.
Suffragettes: Militant Tendency
The Women’s Social and Political Union played a crucial role in the campaign to gain the vote for women.
Sanitising the Suffragettes
Why is it so easy to forget an unsavoury aspect of Britain’s recent past?
After the Vote was Won
Winning the vote for women brought new energy to campaigns for social and political equality. Joanne Smith looks at the remarkable flowering of women’s associations in Britain during the 20th century.
Slavery, Women’s Suffrage and the American Civil War
As calls for women’s suffrage gained momentum following the Civil War, an uncomfortable racial faultline emerged dividing white suffragists from their African-American sisters.