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organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. In 1919 it was renamed the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship...

later by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the Women's Social and Political Union.[citation needed] Women's suffrage in the United...

anthem of the Women's Institute, and historically was used by the National Union of Suffrage Societies. It has also been sung at conferences of the Conservative...

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...

Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies is a Scottish organisation for women's suffrage. It was established in 1910 as an affiliate of the National Union of Women's...

(2016). The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies 1897–1914. Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-317-21326-0. "Women's National Anti-Suffrage League Manifesto"...

with Millicent Fawcett, head of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), as its guest speaker. The society set up headquarters in Lord...

Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was...

Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage was a leading group for women's rights in Scotland. It was one of the first three suffrage societies to be...

Edinburgh societies in the National Society for Women's Suffrage. In 1897, with about 500 other suffrage societies, the MNSWS joined the National Union of Women's...

International Alliance of Women – founded in 1904 to promote women's suffrage. Woman's Christian Temperance Union – active in the suffrage movement, especially...

The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the...

in 1850, however, suffrage was becoming an increasingly important aspect of the movement's activities. The first national suffrage organizations were...

organized by the suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns for the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Planning for the event began in Washington...

active suffrage, as distinct from passive suffrage, which is the right to stand for election. The combination of active and passive suffrage is sometimes...

the extension of the franchise to women through promoting suffrage societies, collecting signatures for petitions and lobbying members of parliament. (See...

(1872–1916) – campaigned in support of women's suffrage, organized a meeting of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies Selina Cooper (1864–1946) – textile...

preserved. This meeting voted to form an international union of national woman suffrage societies; but in order that each association entering into such...

person, one vote" principle. For many, the term universal suffrage assumes the exclusion of the young and non-citizens (among others). At the same time...

Women's suffrage in Wales has historically been marginalised due to the prominence of societies and political groups in England which led the reform for...