Sources
This section contains over 50 archive sources - photographs, newspaper articles, cartoons, diary extracts and pamphlets - which help to tell the story of the women's suffrage movement in Scotland.
Most of the sources are from the National Library of Scotland collections. Additional sources are individually credited. Please see the 'About' section for general information about copyright and permissions.
- Source 1:'The Citizenship of Women: A Plea for Woman's Suffrage', pamphlet by Mr Keir Hardie, MP
- Source 2:Pamphlet, Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1876
- Source 3:Pamphlet, Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1876
- Source 4:Newspaper cutting, 'Shetland News', 23 March 1912
- Source 5:Pamphlet, Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, 1876
- Source 6:Poster - Men's Deputation from the North (Edinburgh to London)
- Source 7:Suffrage news, 'Shetland News', 23 March 1912
- Source 8:Reader's letter, 'Shetland News', 29 June 1912
- Source 9:Newspaper cutting, 'Shetland News', 20 July 1912
- Source 10:Postcard image - the Edinburgh March, 10 October 1909
- Source 11:Newspaper report, The Scotsman, 11 October 1909
- Source 12:Postcard image, Census night, April 1911
- Source 13a:Census Resistance, 1911, Votes for Women newspaper
- Source 13b:Photograph - Census Night ‘sleepover’, 1911, Votes for Women newspaper
- Source 14:'No Vote, No Census', cartoon from Votes for Women newspaper, 1911
- Source 15:Newspaper report - 'Daring outrage at Perth', Glasgow Herald, 1914
- Source 16:Photograph showing Churchill being ‘attacked’ by suffragettes in Aberdeen
- Source 17:Newspaper report - 'Stormy scenes at Edinburgh trial', The Suffragette, 10 July 1914
- Source 18, Pg.3:Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, Eighth Annual Meeting, 1876
- Source 18, Pg.4:Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage, Eighth Annual Meeting, 1876