1900 election
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Concentration camps
Emily Hobhouse
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Imperial propaganda
Military welfare
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Primrose League
South African War Boer War
Women's Liberal Federation
Women's suffrage
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- ISBN 9780719079450
- Weight: 571g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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When the South African War broke out in 1899 British middle-class women, already well-integrated into party politics and public life, were quick to respond. Women across a wide political spectrum actively engaged in public debates over the war through meetings, speeches, petitions, electioneering, and the press. From the start pacifist women made important contributions to the anti-war movement, later providing vital backing for Emily Hobhouse’s campaign to reform the concentration camps. Women imperialists supported the war effort through military philanthropy and imperial propaganda. Under Millicent Garrett Fawcett the government-appointed Ladies’ Committee transformed the camps, while hundreds of British women were recruited as camps teachers and nurses. Fundamentally shaped by ideologies of gender and race, women’s responses to this imperial war continued to influence women’s public action and discourses of citizenship into the First World War.
Eliza Riedi is a Lecturer in Imperial History at the University of Leicester
