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Women and Politics in Smethwick, 1918-1929

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Muggeridge, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9722-649X (2022) Women and Politics in Smethwick, 1918-1929. Midland History, 47 (2). pp. 191-207. ISSN Print: 0047-729X Online: 1756-381X

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2022.2073511

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This article examines the experiences of two women who stood in general elections in Smethwick in the aftermath of women’s enfranchisement. The first, and far better known, was Christabel Pankhurst, who stood as the Women’s Party candidate there in 1918. A little over a decade later, in 1929, the relative unknown Maude Marshall stood as the Liberals’ candidate. Both ran very different campaigns: Pankhurst as a celebrity candidate, who made overtly feminist appeals to voters, and Marshall as a candidate enmeshed within the party machine, but both were defeated. This article argues that their experiences as candidates, though distinct, were broadly indicative of wider contemporary trends in British politics. Furthermore, the article considers the role played by local women in both campaigns, examining the ways in which local women responded to, and were involved with, general elections in the years following enfranchisement.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	Smethwick, women’s politics, women’s suffrage, Christabel Pankhurst, Maude Marshall, general elections, labour party, conservative party, liberal party, women’s party
Divisions:	College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Humanities
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Copyright Info:	© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Depositing User:	Miranda Jones
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2022 15:20
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2022 13:25
URI:	https://worc-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/12328

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