Documentary Heritage of The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain, 1865-1928

"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied.”
MILLICENT FAWCETT

A collection telling the extraordinary struggle of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain from the 1860s to all women gaining the vote in 1928. It includes the 1866 Petition which enabled John Stuart Mill to be the first person in Parliament to call for women’s suffrage; and ends with the success of the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act of 1928.

The documents represent the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, and Parliament’s response to this, and seeks to epitomise a movement that continues to excite the public imagination and generate academic debate among historians of suffrage, feminism and British political life. This select group of items has been chosen to create a narrative of this movement, an inheritance that

‘keeps alive the history of women’s long march to equality, which is so often forgotten or ignored’ MARY STOTT

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