The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage

Krista Cowman is the Head of the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester. She has published and broadcast extensively on the suffrage movement for a number of years and was the historical advisor to the 2015 feature film Suffragette.

Volume Introduction: What Was Different About the British Suffrage Campaign? Part One: Approaches to the Study of British Women’s Suffrage Introduction 1. Locating the Suffrage Movement in Edwardian Politics 2. Looking at British Suffrage from Abroad 3. Post-Colonial Suffrage Histories: Race and Empire in the British Suffrage Movement 4. Life Writing and British Women’s Suffrage 5. Local Dimensions to Women’s Suffrage in Britain 6. Social Network Analysis: Mapping Suffragettes’ Political Journeys 7. ‘Revolutionary Potential?’ The Role of Web Mapping and Other Web Technologies in the Study and Democratization of British Suffrage Histories Part Two: The Material Cultures of the British Suffrage Movement Introduction 8. Art and the Suffrage Campaigns 9. Suffrage News and Print Media 10. Purple, White and Green: Selling Militant Women’s Suffrage 11. Keeping Alive the Suffragette Spirit: Curating, Collecting and Displaying Suffrage at the Museum of London 12. Collecting Suffrage 13. Suffrage Fiction 14. Suffrage on the Edwardian Stage Part Three: Organisations of the British Suffrage Movement Introduction 15 . Antecedents to the Women’s Suffrage Campaigns 16. ‘You can't kill the spirit, it's like a mountain, old and strong, it goes on and on.’ A Reassessment of The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies: The View from Manchester 17. The Women’s Social and Political Union 18. The Women’s Freedom League and Discourses of Feminism in Great Britain 19. Religious Suffrage Societies 20. Women’s Suffrage and Political Parties 21. Occupational Suffrage Societies 22. ‘A Chivalry That Includes and Surpasses Justice.’ Male Support for Women’s Suffrage in Edwardian Britain Part Four: Legacies of the British Suffrage Movement Introduction 23. Suffrage During the First World War 24. Taking a View on Suffrage Militancy 25. What Difference Did the Vote Make? Suffrage in Parliament, 1919 – 1928. The Representation of the People Act, 1918 26. International Connections in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement 27. Suffrage Centenaries 28. Suffragette Revisited: An Interview with Sarah Gavron