Colour in this picture of a suffragette rally. Women in the early 20th century are marching to gain votes for women. The motto of the WSPU, whose members were known as suffragettes, was "Deeds Not Words".
On 6th February 1918, women won the right to vote for the first time. Under the 1918 Representation of the People Act, women over the age of 30 who either owned property themselves or were married to men with property were given the right to vote.
Many women had worked before the outbreak of World War I, but as increasing numbers of young men went to the Front, they began to take on heavier roles that had traditionally been undertaken only by men.