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The Campaign for Women’s Votes

Delve into the historical significance and impact of women's suffrage campaigns in local government, exploring diversity of views, hegemony, and milestones like the 1882 Municipal Corporations Act. Uncover the struggles faced by suffragists and anti-suffrage campaigners, tracing the see-saw journey towards women's enfranchisement. Witness how women's roles expanded in governance through the lens of pivotal acts like the 1902 Education Act. Discover the relentless efforts of women fighting for recognition and rights in a changing political landscape.

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The Campaign for Women’s Votes

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  1. The Campaign for Women’s Votes

  2. Sorted, isn’t it? • Diversity – what sorts of women, what sorts of views? • Continuity and Change • Depth and Breadth of Understanding – the heritage that suffrage campaigners drew on… • …historical significance – does it change over time? • Use – and abuse – of sources, and history.

  3. Women electing and elected • 1869, 1882: Municipal Corporations Act • 1888: County Councils Act The Society for Promoting Women As County Councillors • 1893: The Women’s Local Government Society • 1894: introduction of parish and district councils

  4. Hegemony of views? • Anti-suffrage campaigners and local government… • Political parties – and independent candidates • Breadth of radicalism and extremism – options for violence • 1908: Ladies League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage • 1910: National League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage

  5. See-saw? Rollercoaster? • End of 19th century – women more and more enfranchised • Development of borough councils • 1902 Education Act

  6. The work now under [women’s] hands, for which the nation calls upon them… is already more than they can accomplish. [Women] were more industrious… they did most of the work of the workhouse, most of the sewing, most of the real work which kept the place clean, and which supplied the inmates with clothes

  7. We know what happened when your forefathers decided that they must have representation for taxation, many, many, years ago. When they felt they couldn’t wait any longer, when they laid all the arguments before an obstinate British government that they could think of, and when their arguments were absolutely disregarded, when every other means had failed, they began by the Tea Party at Boston, and they went on until they had won the independence of the United States of America. …

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