Centenary of the women’s vote in London
Let's take a quiet moment and go back to the women's rights movement in London, to coincide with contemporary events that led women in the shadows to the polls.
Through a long project of collating photography, newspaper articles and unpublished documents, there are few amazing events across England which celebrate the centenary marking the 1918 Act that gave some women the right to vote for the first time:
National Portrait Gallery is running a series of events to mark the centenary aptly called Rebel Women. One of their first exhibitions is a special display called Votes for Women, and features portraits of the main players in the fight for universal suffrage as well as real surveillance pictures of Suffragettes from the police at the time.
Votes for Women exhibition at the Museum of London: The Representation of the People Act was passed 100 years ago, giving (some) women the right to vote in the UK for the first time. Take a closer look at some of the less well known suffragettes whose perseverance made it all happen at Votes for Women, an exhibition from the Museum of London.
A Woman's Place, Abbey House Museum, Leeds:
Throughout the year, the Abbey House Museum are running stories and talks on, and from, pioneering women on the struggles and progress to achieving gender equality. Olympic medallist and Leeds native Nicola Adams will be just one of the speakers.
Voice and Vote, London, This summer, (27 June to 6 October) Westminster Hall will also host an exhibition called Voice and Vote: Women's Place in Parliament. It will be free of charge and will show previously unseen historic objects telling the story of women in parliament as time has gone by.
The Pankhurst Centre in Manchester:
It is possible to also visit the former home of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester, where the first WSPU (suffragette) meeting was held. The centre is also curating an event called Women's Words at Manchester Central Library in February which invites women to share their stories, poems and memories.
Combat de Femmes 1914-1918, Les Françaises, pilier de l’effort de guerre, Évelyne Morin-Rotureau
In the fields, factories, and hospitals of France, French women participated massively in the war effort.
The War marked a turning point in women's emancipation in France. However, it is the men who died in the horror of the trenches and women feel more or less aware of a debt owed to them.
From the armistice, everyone resumes his and her place and women remain, despite everything, excluded from citizenship.
Unlike their English neighbours, they will have to wait almost thirty years to have access to the right to vote...
With Culturetheque, you have the chance to read an intelligent, well-designed book about this process in France and to rediscover these women of the twenties and better understand the struggle and the engagement.
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