Books
Elizabeth Crawford, 'The Women's Suffrage Movement', (Routledge, 2000)
Andrew Rosen, 'Rise Up Women!', (Routledge and Kegan Paul, Law Book Company, 1974)
Martin Pugh, 'The March of the Women', (OUP, 2000)
Martin Pugh, 'The Pankhursts', (Allen Lane, 2001)
Leslie Parker Hume, 'The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 1897-1914', (Garland, 1982)
Jill Liddington and Jill Norris, 'One Hand Tied Behind Us', 2nd ed, (Rivers Oram Press, 2000)
Brian Harrison, 'Separate Spheres: the Opposition to Women's Suffrage in Britain', (Holmes & Meier, 1978)
Constance Rover, 'Women's Suffrage and Party Politics in Britain 1866-1914', (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967)
Research papers
House of Commons Library research papers on elections
House of Commons Library note on Women in Parliament and Government (PDF) (
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Online sources
Bibliographic database from the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Portal for research into and sources for Women's History