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Dear All Apologies for not seeing this thread until too late! It appears some well versed archivists have beaten me to it. The theme of women's voting rights predating suffrage in local politics, school boards, and especially in Parish Councils(!) has been looked at by several researchers - these being important paths for politicised women to take. Not only could they vote, but in some instances they could also stand. A lot of the 'rules' seem to be regional. It's also worth pointing out that there were several calls for women's suffrage prior to the main 'push' that most people are taught about. The militant movement of the suffragettes led by the Pankhursts in the early 1900s comes some time after the constitutional (boring letter writing and petition bearing) suffrage movement led by Millient Fawcett dating from the mid 1860s right through to 1928. And there were calls prior to this as well. Anyway, just a reminder that if anyone wants to really delve into this topic our catalogues are online 24=7, see our website www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk (esp our source note on suffrage, available in our 'About Collections' section) for more detail. Our opening hours are also available! Enjoy the weekend ;) Teresa Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra