The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. June 11, 2018 Women March Across United Kingdom to Celebrate 100 Years of Female Suffrage --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thousands of women in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales poured into the streets Sunday to celebrate the suffragette movement. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the British 1918 "Representation of the People Act," which granted property-owning British women over age 30 the right to vote. .