Women's Freedom League
Split off from the Women's Social and Political Union where Emmeline Pankhurst held sway. Worked for equality between men and women. Dissolved in 1961.
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Women's Initiative Network
The name 'Women's Initiative Network' seems to be used by groups of women in various organisation. The groups are formed to work towards gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in those ...
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Women's Liberal Association
Women's suffrage movement. It seems that many of these groups merged to form the Liberal Women's Foundation in 1887.
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Women's Social and Political Union
The leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage, founded in 1903, was known from 1906 as the suffragettes. These were the women who set fire to post boxes, broke windows in promi...
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Women's suffrage
Throughout history women have generally not been allowed to vote, with, by the 19th century, a few exceptions based on the woman's marital status or her property ownership, and then only in some el...
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Women's work in WW2
The vital work done by over seven million women during World War II.
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Woodford Green Men's Club
Either the club or its Harrier section was established in 1904.  Its origins are back in the 1880s when it was part of the sports section of the Woodford Green Working Mens' Institute.  More inform...
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Alice Zimmern
Pioneering advocate for women's education and suffrage.  Born Nottingham.  Studied at Bedford College, and then Girton College, Cambridge.  Taught classics for income and wrote influentially on wom...
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