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2. Women's suffrage in Scotland - Wikipedia

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   Anna Munro advertising the Scottish Women's Freedom League. Women's suffrage was the seeking of the right of women to vote in elections. It was carried out by both men and women, it was a very elongated and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced on 6 February 1918, which provided a few women with the right to vote.

3. Agnes Brown (suffragist) - Wikipedia

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   Agnes Henderson Brown also known as Nannie Brown (12 April 1866 – 1 December 1943) was a Scottish suffragist and writer. She was one of the "Brown Women" who walked from Edinburgh to London in 1912.

4. Jane Taylour - Wikipedia

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   Jane E. Taylour (born c.1827 - died 1905 [1]) was a Scottish suffragist and women's movement campaigner, and one of the first women to give lectures in public. [2] [3] She travelled around Scotland and northern England as a suffrage lecturer, [4] and was a key figure in spreading the message of the women's suffrage throughout Scotland and inspiring others to join the National Society for Women ...

5. Shoulder to Shoulder - Wikipedia

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   Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC television serial relating the history of the women's suffrage movement, created by script editor Midge Mackenzie, producer Verity Lambert and actor Georgia Brown. It was broadcast on BBC2 between 3 April and 8 May 1974.

6. The Suffragette (newspaper) - Wikipedia

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   The Suffragette was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, as "the Official Organ of the Women’s Social and Political Union" (WSPU). It replaced the previous journal of the organization, Vote for Women , in 1912, and its name changed to Britannia after the outbreak of World War I .

7. Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage - Wikipedia

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   Inglis also played a role in the early years of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies, acting as honorary secretary from 1906 to 1914. [10] Sarah Mair, who was a leading activist for various causes including the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association, became president of the society in 1907. [11]

8. Helen Crawfurd - Wikipedia

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   Crawfurd first became active in the women's suffrage movement in about 1900, then in 1910 at a meeting in Rutherglen. [11] Agreeing with their tactics, Crawfurd became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) the same year. [12] Crawfurd was jailed three times for "militant" political activity during her career as an activist. [13]

9. Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage

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   The organisation is considered to be a non-militant suffrage association, and although it welcomed male members, it was organised and led by women. [1] Their methods of influence included drawing-room meetings, addressed by prominent male and female suffragists, as well as networking with other organisations, such as The Primrose League, West of Scotland Women's Liberal Unionist Association ...