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The Women’s Local Government Society in Britain 1888-1914. ‘To Serve and to Elect’

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In 1888, this group defined its main objective as ‘to promote the return, independently of party politics, of women as county councillors.’ they adopted the ‘Society to Promote the Return of Women as County Councillors’ as a name (Minutes of the Executive Committee, [MEC], 1888, 17 November); in early 1893, the ‘Women’s Local Government Society’ (WLGS) was durably adopted. The object of the society became ‘to secure that women shall be equally with men eligible to be elected and serve on local governing bodies.’ Thus, they spelt out three claims that the law did not then sanction: equally with men, married women and spinsters alike should have access to all types of local administration
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hal-03737701 , version 1 (25-07-2022)

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Myriam Boussahba-Bravard. The Women’s Local Government Society in Britain 1888-1914. ‘To Serve and to Elect’. Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré et Romain Garbaye (dir.), A City of One’s Own: Blurring the Boundaries between private and public. Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp.181-200, 2008, ISBN-10 : 0754675025, ISBN-13 : 978-0754675020. ⟨hal-03737701⟩
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