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Women's Rights Collection

This collection contains newspapers, journals, pamphlets, leaflets and annual reports of different groups covering the women’s campaigns from the late 19th century until the late 1930s.

In this collection...

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  The Common Cause

  This was the newspaper of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies published from 1909 until 1920. Helen Swanwick was its first editor.

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  Votes for Women

  Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and her husband, Frederick, co-funded and co-edited this newspaper for the Women’s Social and Political Union. It was published between 1907 and 1918 and printed at St Clement’s Press.

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  The Vote

  This was the newspaper of the Women’s Freedom League and its first editor was Charlotte Despard. It was published by Minerva Press from 1909 to 1933.