Discover more about votes for women
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Overview
1866 petition for votes for women (interactive)
Women’s suffrage documents [UNESCO Memory of the world]
Votes for Women around the UK [Google Arts and Culture]
Women and the vote [UK Parliament]
Votes for Women [British Library]
Campaigns and organisations
Did the Suffragettes help or harm the cause of women’s suffrage? [Churchill archive challenge]
Suffrage campaigns in Scotland
The role of Scottish women in the suffragette movement
A guid cause: the women’s suffrage movement in Scotland [National Library of Scotland]
Women’s suffrage in Scotland [SCAN]
Women’s suffrage in Scotland timeline [Edinburgh University]
Campaigners
Emily Wilding Davison [BBC]
Suffragettes: Emily Davison’s death at Epsom Derby
Flora Drummond: nicknamed ‘General’.
Milicent Fawcett [UK Parliament]
Leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS)
Dr Marion Gilchrist [University of Glasgow]
doctor, suffragette, first female graduate of Glasgow University
Dr Elsie Inglis [ElsieInglis.org]
Doctor and suffragette, founded Scottish Women’s Hospitals in World War I
Constance Lytton / Jane Warton
Christabel Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst
Vote 100 from Glasgow Women’s Library – 100 animations of women from around the world who have campaigned for women to have the right to vote.
Attitudes
Militant suffragettes: morally justified or just terrorists? [The Converation]
How far did attitudes to women change after they secured the vote in 1918? [Churchill archive challenge]
Did you know?
Weird as it seems, plenty of women were against suffrage for their own gender. Queen Victoria privately said that the votes for women campaign was a “mad, wicked folly”.
Further reading
Discover these titles and more
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Things a bright girl can do by Sally Nicholls tells the story of three young women from different backgrounds, each with their own reasons for campaigning with the suffragettes. Library copy available.
Hazel by Julie Hearn is about a bored young woman who witnesses Emily Wilding Davison’s death at the Derby and is determined to find out what she risked her life for. Library copy available.
Make more noise! edited by Emma Carroll. Short stories about inspiring women to commemorate the centenary of some women being given the vote in 1918. Library copy available.
Fantastically great women who changed the world by Kate Pankhurst. This is a fun guide to amazing women and their achievements from around the world. Now part of a series of themed books. Library copy available.
The Suffragettes. This is a collection of historical documents relating to the suffrage movement, including both sides of the argument. Library copy available.
Bonnie fechters : women in Scotland 1900-1950 by Sheila Livingstone. Library copy available.
Literacy
Postcards were often used in the campaigns for and against women’s suffrage. Postcards were used in the way we might send a text today
Glasgow Women’s Library have created an online exhibition on Postcards and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage.
