The Chartist Circular began publication in Glasgow, under the auspices of the Universal Suffrage Central Committee for Scotland .

The movement for conservative reform remained strongest in Yorkshire, where it used newspapers, pamphlets, and correspondence to publicise its demands. A Yorkshire petition was presented on 8 February 1780, and more than another forty followed. They called for economic reform, shorter parliaments, and more equal representation, though not universal male suffrage. This and another round of petitioning in 1783 failed to secure their objectives. A moderate Reform Bill was roundly defeated on 19 April 1785.

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies refused an invitation to participate, on the grounds that they could not associate with those whose methods they deplored.

Most Swiss women finally acquired the right to vote; however, several states or cantons continued to disallow women's suffrage until 1994.

Thomas Attwood and John Fielden presented to Parliament a petition for universal suffrage.

Its opening pages set a tone combining personal and political. I have decided to tear up the parts of my diary which do not bear upon Woman's Suffrage, and to keep the remainder, however disjointed and spasmodic, as a souvenir of the time I have spent in the ranks of the Purple, White, and Green since that remarkable day when I first looked with pity and surprise at a bright-faced brave girl selling papers at a corner of a street in the drizzling rain.

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At meetings of local branches, members debated whether the Guild should accept nothing less than full adult suffrage, but decided to support any step towards that goal.

The ban on paying for canvassing made life difficult for the suffrage movement, while setting a premium on women as unpaid canvassers for non-suffrage parties and causes.

It was edited by Amelia Lewis and was published weekly at first, then fortnightly. It had begun on 24 January 1874. The magazine was pro-suffrage and anti-Contagious Diseases Acts.

The DublinUnited Irishmen made public their plan to introduce universal manhood suffrage.

Sheehy Skeffington had been trying to stop people from looting when he was arrested and ordered to be shot. The captain was soon afterwards promoted. But the injustice was too blatant to pass even in a time of violence: Bowen-Colthurst was court-martialled, found to be insane on 7 June 1916, and imprisoned in Broadmoor Prison until 26 January 1918. Sheehy Skeffington had been active in the suffrage movement with his wife Hanna . His death drew her to the nationalist movement, and she raised support for the movement by lecturing in the USA on British Militarism as I Have Known It.

International Women's Day was marked by the largest demonstration of women in London since the days of the suffrage struggle.

Although this weekly was aimed at middle-class women, the sixpenny price put it more securely within the reach of the upper class. Contents included fashion information, household tips and gossip as well as demands for suffrage and employment advice. Virginia H. Cope observes that it proposed an impossible dream of womanhood allowing for femininity, domesticity, brilliance, assertiveness, and political activism.

The cruise missiles had left in 1992 and the runway been demolished in 1997. Women embarked on raising funds for a monument: a statue of a woman with a child on her hip, a chain round her waist, and suffrage ribbons in her hair, to suggest the idea of one generation protecting the next, and passing on feminist ideals.

The first women Members of Parliament for a European country were elected—in Finland—following an Act of the previous year which extended the suffrage to women.

Born in Germany in 1831 to English parents, she had emigrated with them to New Zealand in 1851. Three years after her husband died in a Maori attack leaving her with two small daughters, she travelled from New Zealand to Melbourne to publish her first book. She moved to England in 1870 for her daughters' education, migrated to Florida in 1886, returned from there to New Zealand in 1907, and died four years later. She had by then published two more books and a number of articles on peace, rational dress, co-operative housekeeping, women's suffrage, and other reformist topics. Causes for which she took an activist role included the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts, and most of the subjects of her publication.

During the First World War it could manage only a weekly issue. It was subsidised by the TUC (Trades Union Congress ) until in 1929 it was taken over by Odham Press . An important early editor was George Lansbury , who had served a prison term for supporting the suffrage cause in 1912. Writers for the paper included (briefly) the young Rebecca West .

Like the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ' procession of 13 June 1908, Woman's Sunday was a response to Herbert Asquith 's promise to enfranchise women if he could be persuaded that women wanted it.

The Congress of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance was held at Budapest in Hungary.

A Liberal Member of Parliament, Henry York Stanger, introduced a women's suffrage bill which passed its second reading by a majority of 179 votes.

Kathleen Ainslie published Votes for Catherine, Susan and Me, a children's book which is also anti-suffrage propaganda.

The Association aimed to bring together middle-class radicals (such as Joseph Hume and Joshua Walmsley ), Manchester School radicals (such as John Bright and Richard Cobden ), and moderate Chartists. Its programme consisted of four points: household suffrage, the ballot, triennial parliaments and more equitable seat distribution.

Shortly after founding, the word "co-operative" was dropped from its name. By 1895, at the same rate of pay as men, it employed approximately forty women whose printing jobs were primarily for suffrage societies and work related to other women's causes.

The first weekly number appeared in London of Shafts: a magazine of progressive thought (founded and edited by Margaret Shurmer Sibthorp ), which aimed at a working-class and female readership, and supported women's suffrage.