Women's Suffrage - British

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First Woman to Vote in England

Who was the first woman to vote in England? Here's a claim for that honor.

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Sister of suffrage activist Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first woman physician in Great Britain. She overcame much opposition to win her license.

Helen Blackburn

Helen Blackburn was a women's suffrage worker in the British suffrage movement who donated her books for researchers into the movement's early years.

Barbara Bodichon

A biography of Barbara Bodichon, artist and women's rights activist.

Emily Davies

A profile of Emily Davies, British suffrage worker and educator.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

A biography of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, British women's suffrage activist, known for her constitutional approach -- more peaceful and rational than the confrontational style of the Pankhursts.

Emmeline Pankhurst - British Suffrage Leader

A biography of Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffrage leader.

Woman Suffrage Timeline

A year-by-year history of women's voting rights around the world.

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

NUWSS, founded in 1897, was the main umbrella suffrage organization in the last phases of the campaign in Britain.

Spy Pictures of Suffragettes Revealed

Nearly a century ago, Scotland Yard engaged in secret surveillance of the women's suffrage movement in the UK, including some of the first police surveillance photographs.

Women's Social and Political Union

More radical of the British suffrage organizations, WSPU was founded in 1903 by the Pankhursts.