Celebrating Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month: a celebration dedicated to the recognition of achievements of women socially, culturally, politically and economically throughout history. It takes place in March in th ...
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Celebrating the anniversary of the campaign for Votes for Women and the life of Sylvia Pankhurst
Robert Tanitch reviews Sylvia at The Old Vic, London SE1 100 years ago 8.5 million women in the UK over 30 and on the property register were entitled to vote for the first time. The show is a potted h ...
A letter from Bob Chapman – Suffragettes
I have been interested in the establishments praise and support for the suffragettes 100 years ago. It is a shame that the media of that day were not more supportive of the suffragettes courageous fig ...
Suffragettes in trousers
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, which, amongst other changes, granted the vote to some women in the UK for the first time. Although this was only for wom ...