File: N.U.W.S.S. now N.U.S.E.C.

Scope and Content

Correspondence with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (later the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship), the I.W.S.A. auxiliary in Britain.

The file includes a regular exchange of news and enquiries between the I.W.S.A. and the N.U.W.S.S./N.U.S.E.C., and their respective Information Bureaus and Journals, regarding: the worldwide progression of emancipation; women's societies; biographies of suffragists; and subjects such as women's work in medicine and agriculture, equal pay for equal work, women inthe police and the I.W.S.A. International War Relief Committee.

There are lists of women on government committees, women in "Important Positions", women holding salaried positions in public departments and members of the N.U.S.E.C. Executive Committee. Also included is the I.W.S.A. recommendation that the N.U.W.S.S. should consider the plea of Marie Stritt and the Deutscher Reichsverband für Frauenstimmrecht to their "sister societies in the International Woman Suffrage Alliance to use all their influence with their governments against the continuation and increased pressure of the hunger blockade during the Armistice" and the N.U.W.S.S. response.

Also included are: a Report of a Conference held in March 1919, attended by representatives of women's groups, to hear a report of the Inter-Allied Suffrage Conference; a draft `Convention Creating a Permanent Organisation in Connection with the League of Nations for the Improvement in the Status of Women'; a suggested scheme for widows' pensions; correspondence relating to an embryonic Greek suffrage society; a circular letter regarding the N.U.S.E.C. £10 000 Appeal; and details of the N.U.S.E.C. Election Fighting Fund.

Language: includes 1 piece in French and some endorsements in shorthand.