The six points were manhood suffrage, annual parliaments, the ballot, payment of MPs, equal electoral districts, and the abolition of the property qualifications for parliament.

This weekly magazine addressed temperance issues but also broader topics like suffrage, working conditions, and domestic violence. Its editors had been Lady Henry Somerset and Annie E. Holdsworth , and later Florence Fenwick Miller (1854-1935). The first issue had appeared on 4 January 1894.

Although the WSPU's presence in Ulster was considered wholly superfluous by many Irish suffragists, the Belfast branch had a strong membership. In April 1914 the Irish Women's Suffrage Society disbanded because most of its members had joined the WSPU.

John Stuart Mill presented the House of Commons with a second women's suffrage petitionpetition, bearing over three thousand signatures.

H. A. Bruce presented Parliament with a women's suffrage petition bearing 3,559 signatures.

Marie Mulvey Roberts edited a collection of reprinted women's writings as The Disenfranchised: the Fight for the Suffrage.

As later in the revolution of 1917, demands for women's rights were an important part of the agenda for broader social change. Female activists, spanning the factories and the intelligentsia, succeeded early in the year in establishing the Women's Equal Rights Union in Moscow, though the concessions of October included universal male suffrage with nothing for women.

The pilgrimage, on the lines of suffrage marches, was first moved by Helen Ward and seconded by Kathleen E. Innes at a Women's International League meeting. Many marchers set out this month in order to reach London in time, although organizers had at first hesitated to leave during the General Strike. Women setting out from Edinburgh had to wait until 13 June because the Chief Constable forbade public meetings.

A meeting was held at Spa Fields in Bristol, with the object of starting a petition for various reforms including general male suffrage.

Jill Liddington and Jill Norris together published a history of the Britishsuffrage movement entitled One Hand Tied behind Us.

The new Sinn Féin League (the Irish Republican party) officially supported women's suffrage, but argued that the women's vote must wait until after Ireland gained independence.

Russell Gurney presented Parliament with a women householders' petition for suffrage.

The Constituent Assembly of Prussia, elected by indirect universal suffrage, sat in Berlin.

In response to the support for Britain's war effort pledged by Millicent Garrett Fawcett and other National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Executive Committee members, several leading members of the Union resigned to form the Women's International League .

The Daily Sketch printed a condemnatory report with pictures of the previous day's suffrage demonstration at the House of Commons , couched in a tone of strong disapproval.

The Central Committee and several branches of the Women's Co-operative Guild affiliated themselves with the newly-founded People's Suffrage Federation for Adult Suffrage .

Letters to the London Review of Books from protesters in Parliament Square on the day the new tuition fees were voted on describe a disquieting level of police provocation and violence, reminiscent of accounts of suffrage demonstrations a hundred years before.

The Coming Day, from the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage , ended its monthly publication in London.

Edith Palliser edited the first issue of the Women's Suffrage Record, a monthly periodical published in London.

Sarah Reddish and seven other members of the Women's Co-operative Guild presented a pro-suffrage petition signed by about 31,000 textile workers to the House of Commons.

Similar to the former Contagious Diseases Acts, Regulation 40.D was a reaction to the venereal disease problem in Dublin. Groups protesting it included the Irish Women's Franchise League and the Irish Women's Suffrage and Local Government Association .

She writes of selling suffrage papers in the street as involving the hateful experience of verbal sex filth from elderly men in particular, and describes how factory girls from a food-processing plant—less perhaps out of hostility than high spirits, and amusement at seeing middle-class women experiencing the harsh realities of life—lobbed over-ripe tomatoes at the vendors.

Ethel Fenwick (also known as Ethel Gordon Fenwick or Mrs Bedford Fenwick) was Matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1881 to 1887. She resigned when she married Dr Bedford Fenwick, and became an activist for nursing reform and women's suffrage. She founded in 1899 the International Council of Nurses , the oldest international association of professional women, in 1894 the Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland , and in 1902 the Society for the State Registration of Nurses .

A revised version of the Conciliation Bill (on suffrage) passed its first reading in the House of Commons .