By Harold L. Smith
This Seminar research was once the 1st booklet to track the British womens suffrage crusade from its origins within the 1860s via to the fulfillment of equivalent suffrage in 1928. In this second version, Smith offers new proof drawn from the authors study on how the most post-1918 womens organization (the NUSEC) labored with Conservative occasion ladies to cajole the Conservative celebration to advise equivalent franchise rights.
Smith specializes in the activities of reformers and their rivals, with due cognizance paid to the campaigns in Scotland and Wales in addition to the pursuits in England. He explores why womens suffrage was once this sort of contentious factor, and the way ladies received the vote regardless of competitors fears that it will undermine gender limitations.
Suitable for students studying the Suffrage move, glossy British background and the history of gender.
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