Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 106 2MNS
Held at	: Women's Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library ›
Full title	: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage
Date(s)	: 1871
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

This group, initially named the Manchester Committee for the Enfranchisement of Women, was formed in the 1860s, possibly initially to support John Stuart Mill's 1866 suffrage petition. Early members included Elizabeth Wolstenhulme Elmy, Jacob and Ursula Bright, Rev, S.A. Steinthal and Dr. Richard Pankhurst. It was formally re-founded in 1867 to canvass women householders in Manchester to support further suffrage petitions. It became federated to the National Society for Women's Suffrage, changing its name in 1897 to the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Bound and illuminated volume containing a letter of thanks to John Grave, Mayor of Manchester, and signed by the members of the Executive Committee of the Manchester National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Handlist

Collection level description available on-line on the Women's Library website

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Library by a descendent of Dr Richard Pankhurst in 2003.

Allied Materials

Related material:

At The Women's Library see Records of the Becker Family including papers of Lydia Becker (ref. 7LEB) and the Autograph Letter Collection - Becker Collection (ref 9/28).

Also see Lydia Becker's correspondence as secretary of Manchester Society for Women's Suffrage (1867-90) in Manchester Archives and Local Studies reference M50/1.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
This document was generated by Javascript from an HTML form which structured the input according to the elements of ISAD(G) Version 2. Collection description May 2003 by Jennifer Haynes, Head of Special Collections, The Women's Library. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Dec 2008