It featured an introduction by Frances Power Cobbe advocating female suffrage, in which she commented: When the time comes to look back on the slow, universal awakening of women all over the globe, on their gradual entrance into one privileged profession after another, on the attainment by them of rights of person and property, and, at last, on their admission to the full privileges of citizenship, it will be acknowledged that of all the Decisive Battles of History, this has been, to the moralist and philosopher, the most interesting.

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Cobbe, Frances Power. “Introduction”. The Woman Question in Europe, edited by Theodore Stanton, Source Book Press, 1970, p. xiii - xviii.

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On 30 November the Executive of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies issued a statement condemning WSPU militancy.

The Women's Total Abstinence Union , committed solely to temperance, broke away from the National British Women's Temperance Association after the NBWTA voted to support women's suffrage.

Suffrage supporters including Violet Hunt and May Sinclair were shocked. Hunt wept, and Sinclair later wrote a letter of protest to Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence .

The Women's Franchise began weekly publication in London; it featured contributions from major societies within the suffrage movement and from individuals.

Widespread arrests of Chartist leaders followed uprisings in protest of the rejection of the third petitionpetition for universal manhood suffrage.

A women's suffrage amendment to the bill was defeated—by the opposition of the Liberal government in office, said Emmeline Pankhurst in 1907, and although it was strongly supported in the country.

A one-day conference was held at the University of Portsmouth to commemorate the centenary of the Women's Social and Political Union , leader in the struggle for British women's suffrage

The bill, a Private Member's Bill, was far from ideal. According to suffrage historian Leslie Parker Hume: It withheld the vote from women lodgers, women owners, and women university graduates, and also from most married women, because husband and wife could not qualify with respect to the same property. Nevertheless, since the bill would see some women enfranchised it was deemed a step in the right direction.

US feminist Carrie Chapman Catt donated her book collection, as a gift from the National American Woman Suffrage Association , to the Library of Congress .

The London and National Society for Women's Suffrage changed its name to the London Society for Women's Service shortly after the start of the First World War.

The Central and East of England Society for Women's Suffrage began to publish an annual paper in London.

In response to Women's Social and Political Union militancy, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies passed a resolution stating that it would employ only constitutional means towards achieving the vote.

He was explicitly in favour of universal manhood suffrage.

The LCC or London County Council had come into existence on 17 January 1889 (with two women councillors whose status was later challenged), but the wider county had remained hitherto distinct from the central, ancient City of London. The progress of the bill through parliament (till it received the royal assent on 15 May 1900) was punctuated by debate as to whether women might be permitted to serve not only as councillors (the vestry equivalent) but also as aldermen or even as mayors of the new boroughs. This issue was accurately perceived as linked to the larger issue of women's suffrage, since potential aldermen were identified from the voters' register and mayors were parallel to magistrates.

Many of the techniques used by the repealers were inherited from the anti-slavery abolitionist movement. The orchestrated techniques they developed for grassroots organising, canvassing, and agitating by provincial branches, accompanied by political lobbying and parliamentary, legal, and electoral work organized by a national office, and widespread use of the press, proved good apprenticeship for the upcoming suffrage campaign, which involved many of the same women.

At their annual meeting at Newcastle in 1893, the organisation voted to support suffrage and other causes in addition to temperance, and became the National British Women's Temperance Association

Their protest spread quickly: 200,000 mostly male workers were in the streets the next day. At a further demonstration on 19 March, two of the female leaders, Poliksena Shishkina-Iavein (first gynaecologist in Russia) and Vera Figner (who had spent twenty years in prison for her part in assassinating Tsar Alexander II ), met with the princely head of the Provisional Government, who agreed to exchange the promised universal male suffrage for universal suffrage including women. This measure passed in July, and women first voted in Russia in November, after the civil war, the October Revolution, and the Bolsheviks' assumption of power.

Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first issue of the Women's Union Journal, a monthly publication of the Women's Protective and Provident League , an organization founded by Paterson in London in July 1874 designed to foster trade unionism among women as well as covering suffrage, education, women's rights, and dress reform.

This kind of demonstration was common after the rejection of the petition for universal suffrage, but such activities were quickly quelled by the police.

Late in the day of England's declaration of war on Germany, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies membership demonstrated with members of trades unions and women's socialist organizations at a large peace rally held in Kingsway Hall, London.

The protest followed riots earlier in the month by factory workers in neighbouring industrial towns such as Halifax, Huddersfield, Bradford, Todmorden, Bingley, Skipton, and Keighley. Local newspapers printed the Chartists' People's Charter which called for universal male suffrage, equal electoral districts, removal of the property qualification for MPs, payment of salaries to MPs, secret ballots and annual general elections.

It deals with the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) campaign, during the last couple of years before the first world war, to compel Asquith 's Liberal government to take action over women's suffrage. Asquith's great-grand-daughter Helena Bonham Carter had a major role in the film.

James Connolly , founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896, included a pro-suffrage chapter entitled Women in his socialist, nationalist text The Re-Conquest of Ireland.