This book tells the story of the British ''votes for women'' campaign in a sequence of 100 objects. From the beginning of the campaign in 1866 until all women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, women used every means in their power to persuade the government to allow them the right to elect members of parliament. Through the analysis of an astonishing array of objects - including books, bags, petitions, posters, postcards, plays, photographs, china, chess sets, leaflets, newspapers, games, jewellery, scarves, badges, belts, sashes, rosettes, films, and figurines - The British Women''s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects explores the role that material culture played in this vital struggle. Elizabeth Crawford looks at how, during the sixty-year campaign, items that played any part in life were put to work for ''votes for women'', as suffrage activists both used and abused buildings, transport, and communications. These included not only objects created by the campaigners to influence public opinion, but also those produced by commercial firms to capitalise on the extraordinary publicity generated by the ''votes for women'' movement. Every one of the 100 objects included in this highly illustrated book represents a stage in the journey to equal citizenship. Among them are many our ancestors could have had in their homes or noticed in the street. Using the words of suffrage campaigners and their contemporaries, the accompanying text sets each object in context, with passages explaining politics and key personalities included throughout.

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Elizabeth Crawford is an independent researcher and for decades ran a business selling antiquarian books and ephemera by and about women, specialising in the suffrage movement. She is author of The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (1999), Enterprising Women: The Garretts and Their Circle (2002), The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2005), and Art and Suffrage: a biographical dictionary of suffrage artists (2018). Elizabeth received an OBE in 2018 for 'services to education' and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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**'A most fascinating and wonderful book' - Helen Pankhurst CBE
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This book tells the story of the British 'votes for women' campaign in a sequence of 100 objects. From the beginning of the campaign in 1866 until all women were granted the vote on the same terms as men in 1928, women used every means in their power to persuade the government to allow them the right to elect members of parliament. Through the analysis of an astonishing array of objects - including books, bags, petitions, posters, postcards, plays, photographs, china, chess sets, leaflets, newspapers, games, jewellery, scarves, badges, belts, sashes, rosettes, films, and figurines - The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects explores the role that material culture played in this vital struggle.

Elizabeth Crawford looks at how, during the sixty-year campaign, items that played any part in life were put to work for 'votes for women', as suffrage activists both used and abused buildings, transport, and communications. These included not only objects created by the campaigners to influence public opinion, but also those produced by commercial firms to capitalise on the extraordinary publicity generated by the 'votes for women' movement.

Every one of the 100 objects included in this highly illustrated book represents a stage in the journey to equal citizenship. Among them are many our ancestors could have had in their homes or noticed in the street. Using the words of suffrage campaigners and their contemporaries, the accompanying text sets each object in context, with passages explaining politics and key personalities included throughout.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Object 1. The printed pamphlet form of the 1866 women's suffrage petition.
Object 2. Lydia Becker's dress, 1889.
Object 3. Cartoon of Lydia Becker and Jacob Bright, circa 1868.
Object 4. An advertisement in the Orkney Herald, 4 October 1871.
Object 5. An engraving of a suffrage meeting, 1872.
Object 6. Statue of John Stuart Mill, erected 1878.
Object 7. Annual reports of 19th-century suffrage societies.
Object 8. The Haslam memorial seat, St Stephen's Green, Dublin. Object 9. The Women's Suffrage Journal.
Object 10. Invitation card to 'A National Demonstration of Women'. 6 May 1880.
Object 11. Oil painting by Richard Staunton Cahill, 1888, 'Mary Smith Lecturing on Woman's Rights'.
Object 12. Carte de visite photograph, Sheffield 1882, annotated.
Object 13. Election handbill for Helen Taylor's candidature at the North Camberwell parliamentary election, 1885.
Object 14. An engraving of a meeting of the Women's Franchise League, 1891.
Object 15. Photograph of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy. Object 16. Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft. Object 17. Helen Blackburn's bookcase, 1897.
Object 18. Scenes at the National Convention for the Civic Rights of Women, magazine illustration, 1903. Object 19. The Pankhurst home, 62 Nelson Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. Object 20. Photographic postcard of the 'Lancashire and Cheshire Delegates on the Women's Franchise Deputation to the Prime Minister', May 1906. Object 21. A German photographic postcard, 23 October 1906.
Object 22. Illustration of 'The Mud March', February 1907.
Object 23. Press photograph taken on 31 October 1906.
Object 24. Women's Freedom League minute book 1907-8.
Object 25. A suffrage poster.
Object 26. Suffrage scrapbook compiled by Mrs Spencer Graves.
Object 27. Suffrage newspapers.
Object 28. Women's Social and Political Union 'Haunted House' buckle and belt.
Object 29. Women's Freedom League 'Dorothy bag'.
Object 30. 'Susan B. Anthony' suffrage banner, 1908.
Object 31. The train and the suffrage movement.
Object 32. The bicycle and the suffrage movement.
Object 33. The car and the suffrage movement.
Object 34. The caravan and the suffrage movement.
Object 35. Suffrage offices.
Object 36. Women's Freedom League 'Proclamation' banner, 1908.
Object 37. Bow Street Police Court, 1908.
Object 38. Photograph of women wearing replica prison dress, 1908.
Object 39. Record of a speech made by Christabel Pankhurst, 1908.
Object 40. Tea rooms and the suffrage movement.
Object 41. Suffrage medals.
Object 42. Postcard advertising the NUWSS 'Pageant of Women's Trades and Professions', April 1909.
Object 43. China and the suffrage movement.
Object 44. Women's Freedom League petition badge, 1909.
Object 45. Suffrage society badges.
Object 46. Designs for emblems of the federations of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
Object 47. Photograph of Millicent Fawcett planting a tree in Annie's Arboretum, Batheaston, 1910.
Object 48. Photographic postcard of the Prisoners' Pageant, 23 July 1910.
Object 49. Suffrage shops.
Object 50. Suffrage postcards.
Object 51. Suffrage games.
Object 52. Suffrage jewellery.
Object 53. Suffrage plays.
Object 54 Suffrage novels.
Object 55. Suffrage songs.
Object 56. May Billinghurst's 'Velociman'.
Object 57. A Votes for Women poster highlighting male activism.
Object 58. National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies flyer in support of the Second Conciliation Bill, 1911.
Object 59. 'Votes for Women' novelties.
Object 60. Diaries and suffrage.
Object 61. 'The Pillar Box and The Suffragette' money box.
Object 62. Anti-suffrage flyer, 1912.
Object 63. German photographic postcard of a window smashed by suffragettes, March 1912.
Object 64. 'Elusive Christabel', optic toy, 1912. Object 65. 'Topical Chessmen (Suffragettes v. The Law)'.
Object 66. A cloth embroidered with the signatures of suffragette prisoners, 1912.
Object 67. Forcible feeding: a 'comic' postcard.
Object 68. …