Professor Sarah Pedersen, Robert Gordon University, looks at the ways in which suffrage history has been written. She argues that the early accounts written by former suffrage activists have shaped the ways that historians have evaluated the success of the movement. Historians have tended to view the two groups as opposed camps rather than strands of the same cause. Professor Pedersen argues that this has distracted commentators ever since from a fair evaluation of the very real contribution made by all campaigners.