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... House of Commons had passed the Contagious Diseases Acts which said that in towns where troops were billeted , women suspected of being pros- titutes could be compulsorily examined for venereal disease- and in the days before Wassermann ...
... House of Commons had passed the Contagious Diseases Acts which said that in towns where troops were billeted , women suspected of being pros- titutes could be compulsorily examined for venereal disease- and in the days before Wassermann ...
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... House of Lords had rejected the govern- ment's budget . Politics naturally became livelier , and the methods of the ... Commons lying uneasily beneath the heavy , brooding and unwelcome menace of ' Votes for Women ' VID SON VOTES FOR WOME THE ...
... House of Lords had rejected the govern- ment's budget . Politics naturally became livelier , and the methods of the ... Commons lying uneasily beneath the heavy , brooding and unwelcome menace of ' Votes for Women ' VID SON VOTES FOR WOME THE ...
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... House of Lords had to be held in December 1910 , and in this election ... Commons , the Liberals remained in office , and early in 1911 the WSPU ... House , Bath , to recuperate . For everyone who stayed there a tree was planted in a ...
... House of Lords had to be held in December 1910 , and in this election ... Commons , the Liberals remained in office , and early in 1911 the WSPU ... House , Bath , to recuperate . For everyone who stayed there a tree was planted in a ...
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19th century agitation American Annie Besant Annie Kenney arrested Asquith Australia became bill Bottom right British campaign cause Christabel Pankhurst Congress countries demonstration Downing Street election electoral Emily Davison Emmeline Emmeline Pankhurst enfranchised England English equality female fight France French gettes girls give votes given the vote giving women going H.G.Wells House of Commons husband Jeanette Rankin Labour Party lady leader less Liberal living London marriage married meant meeting ment middle-class militant movement NAWSA nursing opponents of votes organisation parades police political politicians position of women Prime Minister prison prostitutes reform right to vote Senate servants social struggle suffrage societies suffragettes suffragists supporters of votes Sylvia Sylvia Pankhurst things took Top left Top right United Victoria Victoria Woodhull votes for women wanted the vote woman women the vote women who wanted Women's Freedom League Women's Party women's rights women's suffrage WSPU