Women's right to vote Document: Representation of the People Act 1918. Catalogue ref: C 65/6385 Description: This is the cover of the Representation of the People Act from February 1918, which gave voting rights to women over the age of 30 who met minimum property qualifications. It was the first time in British history that women gained voting rights. Women wouldn’t gain the same voting rights as men until ten years later in the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. These voting rights were granted after decades of intense and dedicated campaigning by the Suffragettes. Most notably, this included the

Women's right to vote Document: Representation of the People Act 1918. Catalogue ref: C 65/6385 Description: This is the cover of the Representation of the People Act from February 1918, which gave voting rights to women over the age of 30 who met minimum property qualifications. It was the first time in British history that women gained voting rights. Women wouldn’t gain the same voting rights as men until ten years later in the Equal Franchise Act of 1928. These voting rights were granted after decades of intense and dedicated campaigning by the Suffragettes. Most notably, this included the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, a movement founded in the 1860s, and the more radical Women’s Social and Political Union, founded in 1903. By the summer of 1914, over a thousand British suffragettes had acquired a criminal record and many were imprisoned for demanding the vote. Read a transcript of this document here:

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