Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom
Women's right to vote in the United Kingdom was established through acts of Parliament in 1918 and 1928. In 1832, the Representation of the People Act (or First Reform Act) had passed into law, extending the franchise to various groups of property-owning men, thus legally excluding women. In 1872, the fight for women's suffrage became a national movement with the formation of the National Society for Women's Suffrage and later the more influential National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). As well as in England, women's suffrage movements in Wales, Scotland and Ireland gained momentum. The movements shifted sentiments in favour of women's suffrage by 1906. At this time a militant campaign began with the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 led to a suspension of party politics, including the militant suffragette campaigns. Lobbying did take place quietly. In 1918 a coalition government passed the Representation...
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