Useful links and online resources

Below are some links to online resources which we found useful when putting together the database and other materials for this website. If you have any suggestions for additional resources, please email suffrage@history.org.uk. 

Women and politics from the 15th to 19th centuries

• Women at the Polls in the 17th Century (History of Parliament site)
• Women and Parliament in the 15th Century (History of Parliament)
• Before the vote was won: women and politics, 1832-68 (Victorian Commons site, The History of Parliament)
• Women in Democracy during the 19th century (Victorian Commons site, The History of Parliament)

Parliament and the suffrage campaign

• ‘The first humble beginnings of an agitation’: the women’s suffrage petition of 7 June 1866 (Victorian Commons, The History of Parliament)
• ‘The only really important public service I performed’: John Stuart Mill’s women’s suffrage amendment, 20 May 1867 (Victorian Commons, The History of Parliament)
• ‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 (Victorian Commons, The History of Parliament)
• Emily Wilding Davison and women in Parliament (The History of Parliament)
• Votes for Women and the Speaker’s Conference on Electoral Reform 1916-17 (The History of Parliament)
• Representation of the People Act 1918 (The History of Parliament)
• Women in Democracy during the 1970s and 1980s (The History of Parliament) 

Media related to the suffrage campaign

• Overview of the organisation of the 1866 petition  - containing documents and photographs (Google Arts and Culture)
• Slide show of the women’s suffrage campaign in regions around the UK (Google Arts and Culture)
• Overview of women’s rights before the suffragettes - containing a number of documents and photographs (Google Arts and Culture)
• Article on the women who didn’t get the vote in 1918 (Google Arts and Culture)
• Music and words to the chorus of the WSPU 'Purple, White and Green' song (LSE Library)
• Suffragettes on file: documents related to the suffrage campaign (The National Archives)
• The Garrett Andersons: Pioneering Mother And Daughter (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour)
• Who Won the Vote for Women, the Suffragists or the Suffragettes? (BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour)
• ‘Emily Wilding Davison and the Suffragette banner’, film overview of militant campaigners (YouTube: Museum of London)
• Art and women’s suffrage (Google Arts and Culture)
• Overview of working-class women in the movement (British Library)
• Film clip of a 1906 pageant in London, organised by the WSPU (The National Archives)