Disney’s 1964 classic film had a suffragette theme, but it remains to be seen if the new version will celebrate votes for women.
Articles on 100 years of votes for women
Displaying all articles
New research reveals that changes in attitudes led to Sinn Féin’s landslide victory – not the new surge of young voters.
It’s 100 years since women won the right to be MPs, but what was Parliament like for women back then?
Emmeline Pankhurst’s youngest daughter fought for women’s right to vote, but she’s more problematic to commemorate.
Justified or not, some of the suffragettes’ actions were still criminal. And many would consider a conviction a badge of honour.
Ireland was quick to elect a woman member of parliament, but it’s been slow going thereafter.
It’s been 100 years since women over 30 won the right to vote in Britain. But that didn’t solve gender injustice – and young people today need feminism more than ever.
Not everyone won the vote in 1918, and not everyone is living their best life now.
Saudi Arabia is the most recent country to grant women the vote. Pakistan has some serious work to do. And Vatican City really needs to get with the programme.
The women’s suffrage campaign shows the advantages of petitioning, even when demands are rejected.
Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Top contributors
-
Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool
-
Professor of Politics and Director of the Gender Research Centre, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
-
Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
-
Historian and heritage professional, University of Exeter
-
PhD candidate, Durham University
-
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool
-
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Justice, University of Manchester
-
Barrister and Human Rights Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
-
Professor, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast
-
Professor of Sociology of Religion, Coventry University
-
Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen's University Belfast
-
Senior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Rethinking Petitions project, Durham University
-
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Tennessee
-
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast
-
Lecturer in Economics, Queen's University Belfast