Women suffrage movement

In 1918, the 'Representation of the People's Act' was passed to give women over the age of 30 the right to vote.

Suffrage is the right to vote in an election.

The achievement of women's suffrage was a hard fought battle, which brought together women from different social backgrounds, from all across the country.

Many campaigners felt that without the right to vote and participate in the democratic process they were being treated as second class citizens, with no rights, no voice and no way of making a change.

In Hillingdon, there is evidence of local women taking part in the activism.

Women's suffrage

'Deeds not Words'

Slow moving, but unstoppable

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Further reading

  • The Middlesex County Advertise (available to view on request from the Hillingdon Local Studies search room)
  • March, Women, March: Voices of the Women's Movement From the First Feminist to Votes For Women - Lucinda Hawksley (2013)
  • Votes for Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female - Jenni Murray (2018)
  • Death in Ten Minutes: Kitty Marion - Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette - Fern Riddell (2018)
  • Rebel Girls: Their Fight for the Vote - Jill Liddington (2006)
  • Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes - Joyce Marlow (2001)
  • Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote - Jane Robinson (2018)
  • Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr - Lyndsey Jenkins (2015)
  • Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes - Diane Atkinson (2018)