1. The Campaign for Women’s Votes

2. Sorted, isn’t it?
Diversity – what sorts of women, what sorts of views?
Continuity and Change
Depth and Breadth of Understanding – the heritage that suffrage campaigners drew on…
…historical significance – does it change over time?
Use – and abuse – of sources, and history.

3. Women electing and elected
1869, 1882: Municipal Corporations Act
1888: County Councils Act
The Society for Promoting Women As County Councillors
1893: The Women’s Local Government Society
1894: introduction of parish and district councils

4. Hegemony of views? Anti-suffrage campaigners and local government…
Political parties – and independent candidates
Breadth of radicalism and extremism – options for violence
1908: Ladies League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage
1910: National League for Opposing Women’s Suffrage

5. See-saw? Rollercoaster?
End of 19th century – women more and more enfranchised
Development of borough councils
1902 Education Act

6. The work now under [women’s] hands, for which the nation calls upon them… is already more than they can accomplish.
[Women] were more industrious… they did most of the work of the workhouse, most of the sewing, most of the real work which kept the place clean, and which supplied the inmates with clothes

7. We know what happened when your forefathers decided that they must have representation for taxation, many, many, years ago. When they felt they couldn’t wait any longer, when they laid all the arguments before an obstinate British government that they could think of, and when their arguments were absolutely disregarded, when every other means had failed, they began by the Tea Party at Boston, and they went on until they had won the independence of the United States of America. …