An organized women's suffrage movement operated continuously in
Britain for more than sixty years, from the mid-1860s until the
achievement of equal voting rights in 1928. This volume represents
the first comprehensive investigation into this movement in Wales,
which participated in agitation throughout the period. Covering the
dramatic and sensational actions carried out by suffragettes in
Wales, as well as the more mundane day-to-day campaigns for equal
rights, Ryland Wallace uses extensive archival material in order to
assess the impact of various campaigning organizations and the
hugely committed but unsung individuals who carried out their
ideals.
'The publication of this pioneering volume undoubtedly represents a real breakthrough in the historiography of modern Wales. It also presents the Welsh dimension of a central theme in British history.' J. Graham Jones, Morgannwg. June Purvis, professor of women's and gender history, University of Portsmouth, is reading Ryland Wallace's The Women's Suffrage Movement in Wales 1866-1928 (University of Wales Press, 2009). "This lucidly written book offers the first comprehensive coverage of the women's suffrage agitation in Victorian Wales until the granting of equal voting rights in 1928. Drawing on extensive primary sources, it has chapters on the Women's Social and Political Union, the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, the Women's Freedom League, the impact of the Great War and the campaign for equal suffrage. An invaluable read for all suffrage scholars." Times Higher Education "This book, claiming to be the first comprehensive study of this movement inWales, records the names of committed but lesser-known individuals, covering not only the sensational actions carried out by suffragettes in Wales but also the more mundane day-to-day campaigns for equal democratic rights for women and men." Internatonal Review of Social History
Ryland Wallace is a lecturer in History at Coleg Gwent, Pontypool. He has written one previous volume in this series, 'Organize! Organize! Organize!': A Study of Reform Agitations in Wales, 1840-1886, published in 1991.
