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  2. Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The case gave women's suffrage campaigners great publicity. Outside pressure for women's suffrage was at this time diluted by feminist issues in general. Women's rights were becoming increasingly prominent in the 1850s as some women in higher social spheres refused to obey the gender roles dictated to them.

  3. Timeline of women's suffrage - Wikipedia

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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: Local Government Act 1894 confirms single women's right to vote in local elections and extends this franchise to some married women. [ 24 ] [ 26 ] By 1900, over 1 million women were registered for local government elections in England.

  4. Feminism in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    1913: The Great Pilgrimage of 1913 was a march in Britain by suffragists campaigning non-violently for women's suffrage. Women marched to London from all around England and Wales and 50,000 attended a rally in Hyde Park .

  5. 1906 WSPU march - Wikipedia

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    The 1906 WSPU march on 19 February 1906 was the first march held in London to demand the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom.Organized by Sylvia Pankhurst and Annie Kenney of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the event saw around 300–400 women march through central London to the House of Commons.

  6. Historiography of the Suffragettes - Wikipedia

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    Women's Social and Political Union members and suffragettes Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst. The Historiography of the Suffragette Campaign deals with the various ways Suffragettes are depicted, analysed and debated within historical accounts of their role in the campaign for women's suffrage in early 20th century Britain.

  7. Women's Social and Political Union - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. [1] Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and policies were tightly controlled by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel and Sylvia ...

  8. Women's Coronation Procession - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Coronation Procession was a suffragette march through London, England, on 17 June 1911, just before the Coronation of George V and Mary, demanding women's suffrage in the coronation year. The march was organised by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). It was "the largest women’s suffrage march ever held in Britain and ...

  9. History of women in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, 1950s Britain saw several strides towards the parity of women, such as equal pay for teachers (1952) and for men and women in the civil service (1954), thanks to activists like Edith Summerskill, who fought for women's causes both in parliament and in the traditional non-party pressure groups throughout the 1950s. [140]