The Houses of Parliament are celebrating International Women’s Day 2012 on Thursday 8 March with a display of historic documents charting British women’s fight for the vote. The items in the display - Women and the Vote: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain 1865-1928 - are drawn from the collections of The Women’s Library and The Parliamentary Archives. When the display finishes the items will return to their respective collections where they will be accessible to the public.
The eight items in the display document the history of the women’s movement from the 1860s until 1928, when women were granted suffrage on the same terms as men.
March 08, 2012
