The Forgotten Heroes of the British Suffrage Movement

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Mae Forgotten Heroes yn plymio'n ddwfn a diddorol i'r llu o hunaniaethau gwahanol a oedd yn ffurfio menywod y mudiad pleidlais i'r bleidlais.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The Forgotten Heroes of the British Suffrage Movement investigates the struggle for women's right to vote through the eyes of some of the lesser-known activists.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Andrew Griffiths is an independent researcher who has been studying the past for over twenty years. He graduated with a History Degree in 2007, and the following year, he began a career as a freelance writer. In 2012, he launched historyoffighting.com, a website dedicated to teaching the history of martial arts, combat sports and military history. He has also authored a book called The Birth of the Samurai, which charts the development of the warrior elite in early Japanese society. The author resides in Cardiff and as suffragettes Rachel Barrett and Lady Rhondda did much of their suffrage work in South Wales.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

It delves into the themes, events and political issues that formed the bases of the movement and seeks to highlight the sacrifices made in the process of winning female enfranchisement. It begins with a look at the early campaigners and organizations that led the way at a time when the concept of women voting was seen as nothing more than a quaint idea. The book charts how for some, progress was deemed too slow which led to the introduction and gradual increase in militant tactics, culminating in arson attacks and a bombing campaign. Forgotten Heroes also takes a fascinating deep dive into the myriad of different identities that made up the women of the suffrage movement. They came from all walks of life, supported different political parties, had various sexual preferences and some even came from other races. Despite this diversity, in a period spanning a little under one hundred years, women banded together and fought a political war. They gave up their time, money, freedom, health and even their lives for an objective that today is taken for granted as a basic human right, the entitlement for women in the UK to vote on the same terms as men.