| Ref No | 2NWS |
| Acc No | 1930/NoAccNo02 |
| Title | Records of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
| Description | The archive consists of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) Minutes: Executive committee 1899-1918; combined subcommittees 1986-1909; organisation (1905-1913), election fighting fund (1912-1915), Friends of Women's Suffrage (1912-1915), women's interests (1913-1915), professional women's patriotic service fund (1915) and magazine (1908-1909) subcommittees; Council meetings reports (1907-1918), annual reports (1907, 1917), rule books (1910-1914); circular letters (1897-1917); leaflets; broad-sheets; pamphlets; scrapbook; posters; emblem blotting paper; photographs. |
| Date | 1896-1919 |
| Subject | Women |
| Womens organisations |
| Womens suffrage |
| Related Material | The Women's Library also holds the papers of several constituent member organisations of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies:
The Artists' Suffrage League (2ASL); the Actress' Franchise League (2AFL); National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: Portsmouth Branch (2PWS); Oldham Women's Suffrage Society (2OWS).
It also holds papers of related groups:
Consultative Committee of Constitutional Women's Suffrage Societies (2CSS); National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (2NSE); Scottish Women's Hospitals (2SWH); etc.
It also holds the papers of the leader of the NUWSS, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (7MGF; 10/: Autograph Letter Collection 9/).
For records after 1919 see National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC)
Pamphlets and annual reports issued by the NUWSS can be found in TWL Printed Collections, e.g. class number 324.62306041 NAT, but also in TWL Printed Collections UDC Collection.
The TWL Visual Resource Collection contains additional material on the NUWSS and some of the Scottish societies e.g. photographs.
NUWSS papers are also held by: Manchester Archives and Local Studies 1889-1918: minutes, correspondence and papers (ref M50); Manchester University: John Rylands Library 1910-1914: press cuttings (30 volumes) (ref. NUWS) 1917-1920: correspondence with International Woman Suffrage Alliance (ref IWSA/2/23 ); Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle Headquarters, 1909-1918: papers, (ref D/Mar ). |
| Place_Code | NA467 |
| Access_Status | Open |
| CatalogueStatus | Catalogued |
| Extent | 8 A boxes and OS items |
| Level | Fonds |
| Person_Key | Blackburn | Helen | 1842-1903 | | Suffragist |
| Marshall | Catherine | 1880-1961 | | Suffragist and Pacifist |
| Cooper | Selina Jane | 1864-1946 | | Suffragist and Socialist |
| BoxNumber | Box FL83-FL85; FL299-FL303; Box OS35; PC 6.2 |
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA966 | National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies; 1897-1919; suffrage organisation | 1897-1919 |
| NA764 | Women's Social & Political Union; 1903-c.1919; suffrage organisation | 1903-c.1919 |
| NA1041 | National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship; 1918-1945 | 1918-1945 |
| NA1014 | Central & Western Society for Women's Suffrage; 1897-1900; suffrage organisation | 1897-1900 |
| NA712 | Central & East of England Society for Women's Suffrage; 1897-1900; suffrage organisation | 1897-1900 |
| NA488 | Strachey; Philippa [Pippa] (1872-1968); feminist activist and organiser | 1872-1968 |
| NA412 | Royden; Agnes Maude (1876-1956); suffragist and preacher | 1876-1956 |
| NA889 | Pankhurst; Emmeline [née Goulden] (1858-1928); suffragist | 1858-1928 |
| NA897 | Pankhurst; Dame; Christabel Harriette (1880-1958); suffragist | 1880-1958 |
| NA436 | Rathbone; Eleanor Florence (1872-1946); independent MP and social reformer | 1872-1946 |
| NA506 | Balfour; Lady; Frances [née Campbell] (1858-1931); suffragist leader and churchwoman | 1858-1931 |
| NA1186 | Swanwick; Helena Maria Lucy [née Sickert] (1864-1939); suffragist | 1864-1939 |
| NA1171 | Booth; Eva Selina Gore- (1870-1926); suffragist and poet | 1870-1926 |
| NA1048 | Bristol & West of England Society for Women's Suffrage; 1868-1914; suffrage organisation | 1868-1914 |
| NA1420 | Birmingham Women's Suffrage Society; 1868-; suffrage organisation | 1868- |
| GB/NNAF/P141508 | Fawcett; Dame; Millicent Garrett (1847-1929); feminist and suffragist | 1847-1929 |