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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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   Her father was an activist for women's rights. His opposition to taxes that differentiated between genders caused him to end up in Calton Gaol . Her father ran a number of fruit shops under the title of William Brown & Sons but he trained his daughters, Agnes and Jessie, well and refused to submit to laws that he objected to. [ 2 ]

4. 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.

5. 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 .

6. List of monuments and memorials to women's suffrage

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   This right was often not included in the original suffrage legislation of a state or country, resulting in both men and women campaigning to introduce legislation to enable women to vote. Actions included writing letters to newspapers and legislators, compiling petitions, holding marches and rallies and carrying out acts of violence.

7. Women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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   Despite that Ecuador granted women suffrage in 1929, which was earlier than most independent countries in Latin America (except for Uruguay, which granted women suffrage in 1917), differences between men's and women's suffrage in Ecuador were only removed in 1967 (before 1967 women's vote was optional, while that of men was compulsory; since ...

8. Lilly Maxwell - Wikipedia

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   Maxwell was born around the year 1800 in Scotland, and had originally worked in domestic service before setting up a shop selling crockery. She rented a shop and house at 25 Ludlow Street, Chorlton-upon-Medlock , Manchester which were of high enough monetary value to qualify their occupier under the pre-1867 £10 household borough franchise.

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 ...