The report is memorable for enunciating adult suffrage in elections to Parliament. A few of its recommendations read as below- 8. The Senate shall consist of 200 members to be elected by ...

Adelaide soon left the WSPU, which she believed had little interest in working class women and, with Donald, joined the Adult Suffrage Society. Apart from the photographs of the "Coronation ...

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

As political fever rises both here in Jamaica and the US, we have a grave warning about political tribalism. After a ...

George Mason, one of America’s “Forgotten Founders,” insisted that “no free government” could be preserved except “by ...

Medieval or Renaissance era – were very powerful. They exercised absolute powers in political, legal, financial, military, ...

The Comstock Act was named for Anthony Comstock, a leader of the anti-obscenity movement. It grew out of his effort to stifle ...

Fawcett was a shrewd and tireless campaigner and leader, who resolutely broke down the barriers to women’s suffrage. But this fight for the right to vote was not the work of one woman. Gottlieb worked ...

As National Voter Registration Day nears, we reflect on the long struggle for voting rights and the ongoing fight for ...

Our collections contain primary source material relating to the campaign for women’s suffrage. The majority of this collection forms part of the Women’s Library, whose roots are founded in the ...