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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes / Diane Atkinson.

By: Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvi, 670 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781408844052
  • 9781408844045
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.6230941 23
Summary: On February 6th 1918, after campaigning for over 50 years, British women were finally granted the vote. In November 1919, the first woman MP, Lady Nancy Astor, was elected to the House of Commons. History was made. 100 years on, it is time to reflect on the daring and painful struggle women undertook to break into a political system that excluded them. In the voices of key suffragettes, 'Rise Up Women!' chronicles the founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in the 1860s, led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and the formation of the more militant Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. 'Deeds not words!' was their slogan and they took increasingly violent action, enduring police brutality, imprisonment and force-feeding. Diane Atkinson depicts a truly national and international struggle.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 324.6230941 ATK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available for reference in the library (Available for research in the library) 90666

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On February 6th 1918, after campaigning for over 50 years, British women were finally granted the vote. In November 1919, the first woman MP, Lady Nancy Astor, was elected to the House of Commons. History was made. 100 years on, it is time to reflect on the daring and painful struggle women undertook to break into a political system that excluded them. In the voices of key suffragettes, 'Rise Up Women!' chronicles the founding of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in the 1860s, led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and the formation of the more militant Women's Social and Political Union in 1903. 'Deeds not words!' was their slogan and they took increasingly violent action, enduring police brutality, imprisonment and force-feeding. Diane Atkinson depicts a truly national and international struggle.

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