Well done, Sister Suffragette!

After many years of protest and action, the British government finally acquiesced. In February of 1918 Parliament passed the Representation of the People Bill, allowing women over the age of 30 to vote if they met minimum requirements of owning property.

The following November the Parliamentary Qualification of Women Act was passed, enabling women to stand as Members of Parliament. In November 1919 Nancy Astor takes her seat in the Houses of Commons, as the first female MP for Britain.

But women were still not fully enfranchised. Under the new laws, only 40% of women could vote because they did not own property or were under age 30. It took another decade until, in July 1928 the Representation of the People Act gave the vote to everyone over the age of 21.