UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents
Eight documents from the Parliamentary Archives and the Women's Library (now at LSE) were recognised by UNESCO on their Memory of the World UK Register in 2011 and were displayed together for International Women's Day in 2012.
The eight documents are displayed together for the first time for International Women's Day 2012.
This petition marks the beginning of the continuous women's suffrage movement in Britain
Documents illustrating the founding of the NUWSS under their President, Millicent Fawcett
Album of banner designs for the Artists Suffrage League
Women's Freedom League banner unfurled in the House of Commons in 1908
Extracts from Emily Wilding Davison's Holloway prison diary
This Act allowed suffragettes on hunger strike to be repeatedly freed and re-arrested
Women finally got the vote on the same terms as men in 1928
Letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister on equal franchise
In this section
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Women and the vote
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UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents
- Women's Suffrage UNESCO exhibition in the Royal Gallery, House of Lords, 2012
- Petition circulated by the Women's Suffrage Petition Committee, 1866
- Founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), 1897
- Mary Lowndes Album, c.1908
- Suffragette Banner, 1908
- Writings related to imprisonment and force-feeding by Emily Wilding Davison, 1912
- 'Cat and Mouse' Act, 1913
- Equal Franchise Act 1928
- Stanley Baldwin to Millicent Fawcett, 1928
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UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents