Opponents assert that the voting age decision is an obvious attempt to expand their own support base by offering the vote to ...

Britain on Thursday set out plans to lower the voting age to 16 in a landmark reform to the process that underpins one of the world's oldest parliaments. Who can currently vote? At present, anyone ...

Britain on Thursday set out plans to lower the voting age to 16 in a landmark reform to the process that underpins one of the ...

They fought to secure the vote for women. They used direct action, civil disobedience, and increasingly militant tactics to ...

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

In November 2023, four UN Special Rapporteurs (part of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council) pointed out that the ...

A team of Welsh seamstresses have made 264 sashes for every woman MP to mark 97 years since women were given the right to vote. The group, based in Newport, call themselves Lucy and the Sashmeisters, ...

They are white twill sashes, with one purple ribbon down one side and green on the other side, the iconic colours of the British suffragette movement.

The HBO series is peppered with references to real-life personages and historical events—but it lacks the anything-goes ...

Today, because of the importance of this historic period, such items are very much collected, especially those items that can be traced and substantiated as belonging to one of the suffragettes.

Her efforts to stop the suffrage movement may be a mark against her but she also spent her final year writing articles about the British first world war effort – bravely working on the frontline ...