National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies

Early in the war, particularly up to the end of 1914, members of the mainstream suffrage movementt—with the notable exception of the WSPU —were united in their desire for peace. The immediate reaction of the...

After attending her first WSPU meeting, CC was drawn to Annie Kenney . This influenced her joining the WSPU and later the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

She found the occasion amusing and exhilarating; she rushed around and flirted with men; but she continued her account: But I am in earnest. I really do feel a great belief in the need of...

ER became Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Women's Suffrage Society , which was affiliated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).

MGF was President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies . She held office until the NUWSS changed its name at a council meeting in January 1919, following the victory of 1918.

This event motivated her to leave the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and join the Women's Social and Political Union . Her true activism, however, began in 1911, when she began working for the...

ER became President of the Lancashire and Cheshire's regional federation of suffrage groups, which operated under the auspices of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies .

MGF was a member of the first Women's Suffrage Committee , formed in July 1867 after John Stuart Mill proposed his suffrage amendment in parliament. She was the youngest woman at the initial gathering. At...

Tom Garrs introduced MG to Socialist politics. This was a time, she wrote later, when in a place the size of Leeds the labour movement was deeply aware but not yet moving, much less on...

ER resigned from the NUWSS executive after opposing changes to the group's Election Fighting Fund. She later rejoined, however.

The organisation was formed by consolidating all the local societies working for Women's Suffrage. By 1907, however, MGF turned definitively against the policy of direct action, which had become linked especially with the name of...

ER succeeded Millicent Garrett Fawcett as President of the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC )—formerly the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS )—a post she held for ten years.

Isabella Ormston Ford was a dedicated labour activist, suffragette, and anti-war advocate at the turn of the nineteenth century whose writing advocates her socialist-feminist ideals. She wrote newspaper articles, pamphlets, short stories, and novels, all...

ER first contributed to The Common Cause (journal of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies).

The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) , for which MR served as an executive member and then as editor of The Common Cause, published many of her polemical pamphlets and writings on...