Women's votes.

I re-watched this series on Channel 4 today and I heard the narrator say on episode 7 "In 1900 British women, whatever their social class did not have the right to vote.", and I thought to myself...I'm sure I heard differently on another tv programme set a couple of decades before 1900 about two seamstresses called Pearl and Ruby Pratt who owned a shop in the town. (Lark Rise to Candleford)

A quick search on Wikipedia confirmed it, some women did have the right to vote. From the 1830's single women who had their own property and paid taxes were allowed to vote. Misleading show ;)