2nd Edition

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928 Revised 2nd Edition

By Harold L. Smith Copyright 2010
182 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British women’s suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928.  In this second edition, Smith provides new evidence drawn from the author’s research on how the main post-1918 women’s organisation (the NUSEC) worked with Conservative Party women to persuade the... Read more

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Abbreviations

Who's Who

Glossary

PART ONE

1. Introduction

PART TWO

2 . The Victorian Suffrage Campaign, 1866-97

3. The Constitutional Societies, 1897-1910

4. The Militant Societies, 1903-14

5. The Nuwss-Labour Alliance, 1910-14

6. War And Suffrage Reform, 1914-18

7. Equal Franchise, 1919-28

PART THREE

8. Assessment

PART FOUR   

Documents

 

Guide To Further Reading

References

Index

Biography

Harold L. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. His previous books include: (with Judith N. McArthur) Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics (2003); Britain in the Second World War: A Social History (1996) and British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990).