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The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928

Revised 2nd Edition
2nd Edition

Harold Smith

Nov 2009, Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN13: 9781408228234
ISBN10: 1408228238
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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 Conservative Party to endorse equal franchise rights.

Smith focuses on the actions of reformers and their opponents, with due attention paid to the campaigns in Scotland and Wales as well as the movements in England. He explores why women’s suffrage was such a contentious issue, and how women gained the vote despite opponents’ fears that it would undermine gender boundaries.

Suitable for students studying the Suffrage Movement, modern British history and the history of gender.

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

  • Places the suffrage campaign in the context of the gender conflicts that developed during this period
  • Places the campaign in the context of wider political picture
  • Sheds light on issues such as the reasons for the Liberal Party’s decline and the Conservative Party’s unexpected electoral success in the interwar years
  • Pays special attention to the period after 1914 when suffrage legislation was actually obtained

Dr. Harold L. Smith is Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain. A Visiting Fellow at Corpus College, Oxford in 1994, he is the author or co-author of five previous books and numerous journal articles. These 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); British Feminism in the Twentieth Century (1990).

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