The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage

Volume Introduction: What was different about the British suffrage campaign? 

Part 1: Approaches to the study of British women’s suffrage

1. Locating the suffrage movement in Edwardian politics.

Ian Packer

2. Looking at British suffrage from abroad

Blanca Rodríguez-Ruiz 

3. Post-colonial suffrage histories: race and empire in the British suffrage movement

Sumita Mukherjee   

4. Life writing and British women’s suffrage

Krista Cowman 

5. Local dimensions to women’s suffrage in Britain 

June Hannam 

6. Social network analysis: mapping suffragettes’ political journeys 

Gemma Edwards 

7. ‘Revolutionary potential?’ The role of web mapping and other web technologies in the study and democratisation of British suffrage histories.

Tara Morton with Tim Hollies.

Part 2: The material cultures of the British suffrage movement 

8.  Art and the suffrage campaigns

Zoë Thomas 

9. Suffrage news and print media 

Maria DiCenzo

10. Purple, white and green: selling militant women’s suffrage

Diane Atkinson 

11. Keeping alive the suffragette spirit: curating, collecting and displaying suffrage at the Museum of London

Beverley Cook

12. Collecting suffrage

Elizabeth Crawford 

13. Suffrage fiction

Ruth Robbins

14. Suffrage on the Edwardian stage 

Naomi Paxton 

Part 3: Organisations of the British suffrage movement 

15 . Antecedents to the women’s suffrage campaigns 

Sarah Richardson 

16. ‘You can't kill the spirit, it's like a mountain, old and strong, it goes on and on’: a reassessment of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies: the view from Manchester

Alison Ronan 

17. The Women’s Social and Political Union

June Purvis

18. The Women’s Freedom League and discourses of feminism in Great Britain (1907–1914)

Claire Eustance

19. Religious suffrage societies 

Carmen M. Mangion

20. Women’s suffrage and political parties 

Lyndsey Jenkins

21. Occupational suffrage societies

Alexandra Hughes-Johnson

22. ‘A chivalry that includes and surpasses justice.’ male support for women’s suffrage in Edwardian Britain

Claire Eustance

Part 4: Legacies of the British suffrage movement   

23. Suffrage during the First World War

Angela K. Smith 

24. Taking a view on suffrage militancy

Laura E. Nym Mayhall   

25. What difference did the vote make? Suffrage in Parliament, 1919–1928: the Representation of the People Act, 1918

Pat Thane 

26. International connections in the British women’s suffrage movement 

Krista Cowman

27. Suffrage centenaries  

Mari Takayanagi

28. Suffragette revisited: an interview with Sarah Gavron

Krista Cowman

Biography

Krista Cowman is the Head of the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She has published and broadcast extensively on the suffrage movement for a number of years and was the historical advisor to the 2015 feature film Suffragette.

"An extraordinarily wide-ranging, rich collection of 28 essays by leading scholars on the history of the British women’s suffrage movement. Essays reach back to the early 19th century and come as far forward as 2018 to discuss that year's celebrations, which marked the partial achievement of the vote in 1918, and to anticipate what might happen in 2028 to mark the centenary of granting women the vote on the same basis as men. The volume's main focus, however, is on the intense period just before WW I, when the agitation for the vote was at its most intense. There are fine discussions of the tensions between those who believed in more militant activities, led by the Pankhursts, and the less militant organizations. The number of organizations involved, somewhat hard to keep straight, is amazing."

- Peter Stansky, Emeritus Professor of History, Stanford University, USA