The Guardian view on the Women’s Library at 100: a cause for celebration but not complacency | Editorial

The ups and downs of the collection launched by Millicent Fawcett make it an apt symbol of an ongoing struggle When the Women’s Library opened a century ago, the movement it documented appeared triumphant. Most British women had gained the vote in 1918, and in 1928 suffragist campaigners would ensure that they held it on the same basis as men. The London Society for Women’s Service, led by Millicent Fawcett, intended the library to become a home for the suffrage movement’s archives. But even ...

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