Women, War and Peace

As the events of WW1 unfolded, the role of women in Wales and the wider UK was to change forever - culminating in 1918 in some women finally attaining the vote after many years of campaigning for women's suffrage (the right to vote).

February 2018 marked the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, culmination of generations of campaigning for the vote to be extended - not just to women, but also to working class men returning from war. Even though it would be another 10 years till equal voting was extended to women in 1928, the impact of the suffragettes and suffragists movements was to secure the right to a voice for future generations - and one that would be built upon by Peace Campaigners through the 1920s