Picture Set Of The Month - July - Women Fighting For The Vote

Between a hundred and thirty and one hundred years ago
English women protested for the universal franchise.
Many protested with extreme violence for equality
with men, others worked within the law.

 

Many suspended their protests
for the duration of the first world war
in the hope of being given the vote after.  

In 1918 they had partially succeeded
-as long as the women were married to men
who owned the property that the women lived in.
Only on July 2nd 1928 was the triumph of women
made complete, and then it was for women over 21.