British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928, 2nd edition
By Harold L. Smith
May 2010
Pearson Education
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9781408228234
160 pages, Illustrated
$37.50 Paper Original
OUT OF PRINT
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.
Contents
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
Features
- 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
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