law that allowed women to participate in politics at a local level, 1892 Local Government Act. This was significant in giving women the vote as the increased politicisation led to women starting to campaign, which can be seen by the rise of the suffragette and the suffragist campaigns. As Martin Pugh has argued the importance of this by saying: “involvement in politics at a local level made women’s exclusion from national politics increasingly untenable” . This was evidenced by the support for women’s…
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