UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents
Eight documents from the Parliamentary Archives and the Women's Library were recognised by UNESCO on their Memory of the World UK Register in 2011 and are displayed together for International Women's Day in 2012
The eight documents are displayed together for the first time for International Women's Day 2012.
Extracts from Emily Wilding Davison's Holloway prison diary
Letter of congratulations from the Prime Minister on equal franchise
Documents illustrating the founding of the NUWSS under their President, Millicent Fawcett
This petition marks the beginning of the continuous women's suffrage movement in Britain
Album of banner designs for the Artists Suffrage League
This Act allowed suffragettes on hunger strike to be repeatedly freed and re-arrested
Women finally got the vote on the same terms as men in 1928
Women's Freedom League banner unfurled in the House of Commons in 1908
In this section
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Women and the vote
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UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents
- Women's Suffrage UNESCO exhibition in the Royal Gallery, House of Lords, 2012
- Writings related to imprisonment and force-feeding by Emily Wilding Davison, 1912
- Stanley Baldwin to Millicent Fawcett, 1928
- Founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), 1897
- Petition circulated by the Women's Suffrage Petition Committee, 1866
- Mary Lowndes Album, c.1908
- 'Cat and Mouse' Act, 1913
- Equal Franchise Act 1928
- Suffragette Banner, 1908
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UNESCO Women's Suffrage documents