The Historical Association Suffrage Project.

The Women's Suffrage Project was funded by Cabinet Office to help young people understand the history of democracy and to encourage them to use their own democratic voice. The project explores women at the hustings through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the growth of the suffrage movement in the nineteenth century and the emergence of contemporary democratic voices. Through a remarkable database detailing over 3,000 individuals, it brings to life the ordinary people who campaigned for the right to vote - both through peaceful means and through more militant methods [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]