southside Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 I came across this article in the 1892 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent about votes for Women! Can anyone tell me when the Suffrage movement started in Sheffield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob123 Posted February 6, 2018 Share Posted February 6, 2018 commemorative plaque for the site of the Suffrage Shop on Chapel Walk Help raise £700 to Celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage with a commemor.. Please #donate on @justgiving and RT https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/suffrageshopplaque?utm_id=66&utm_term=prqDJeGpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lysander Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 A few weeks ago there was a small debate on here about the same issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckweed Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 It all depends what you are talking about Suffragettes, Suffragists or women Chartists who became a female political association. In the 1880s it revived partly from the Wilsons, Mrs fighting against the prostitution laws that could imprison a woman without trial deemed to be a prostitute in a hospital. Definition was pretty loose of what constituted a prostitute and could be a woman simply in the wrong place at the wrong time as the government had put in curfews. So many a law abiding decent living woman found herself locked away. Most of the activity re Suffrage at that time seems to have been in Attercliffe. The Suffragettes seem to have formed in 1909. Re the Wilson's there was Helen Wilson, the first woman GP and her mother, and another relative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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