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Initial impressions of women's voting rights in the country can appear to suggest apathy or even hostility towards suffrage, but historians such as Kay Cook and Neil Evans writing in 1991, and built upon by Dr. Kirsti Bohata, argue specific cultural environments led to a more cautious and considered political ideology.
1928: Women in England, Wales and Scotland received the vote on the same terms as men (over the age of 21, without property requirements) as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1928. [64] 1968–1969: The Electoral Law Act (Northern Ireland) and the Representation of the People Act 1969 reduced the voting age to 18 for men and ...
Between 1908 and 1914, she took the campaign for women's suffrage across South Wales. This activity saw her attend protest marches with the Pankhursts, endure an attack from the crowd after she attempted to stop the prime minister's car, and suffer a period of imprisonment, ended only by her going on hunger strike, after she tried to ignite a ...
She has researched women's lives during the First and Second World Wars, women's suffrage, and women's writing in twentieth-century Britain. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She was a founder member of Women's Archive of Wales , established in 1997 to raise the profile of women in the history of Wales. [ 5 ]
This act expanded on the Representation of the People Act 1918 which had given some women the vote in Parliamentary elections for the first time after World War I. It is sometimes referred to as the Fifth Reform Act. [2] [3] The 1928 Act widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men.
Long title: An Act to amend the law about the qualification of electors at elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom or at local government elections in Great Britain, and the qualification for election to and membership of local authorities in England and Wales, about the conduct of and manner of voting at those elections and about candidates' election expenses thereat, and otherwise ...
The story of the Wales women’s team began against the Republic of Ireland with a first ever international in May 1973. But this was an unofficial team, run by volunteers and with no affiliation ...
Welsh women's rights activists (5 P) Pages in category "Women's rights in Wales" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.