Stornoway Women's Suffrage Society

[3] The notion of a woman's rights to work and travel was normal in coastal communities, making it a simpler case for equal franchise.

[3] The Stornoway Town Council supported the movement to give women the vote, before the Representation of the People Act (1918) made it real.

Despite their rural setting members spoke at public meetings, distributed fliers, and wrote articles in the local press to promote women's suffrage.

Even prior to the formation of the society, they invited speakers such as Jessie Craigen[6] from the better known suffrage movement in larger cities.

[7][1] In 2018 to celebrate the centenary of the passing of the 1918 Representation of the People Act (which gave some women the right to vote), the play Deeds Not Words was commissioned.