23 November 2011

Explore Suffragettes' records: 100 years on


A bit late with this one, but the UK National Archives have posted a news item:

One hundred years ago today, the Suffragettes of the Women's Social Political Union, armed with stones and hammers, tried to storm Parliament as their campaign for women's right to vote entered a new, more militant phase.

Read it at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/640.htm

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