Tommy0161

By Tommy0161

Front door...

For International Women's Day, the front door of a Victorian villa in Manchester, 62 Nelson Street to be precise. The former home of Emmeline Pankhurst who campaigned for universal suffrage in the UK at the beginning of the last century. In 1918, women 30 and over were given the vote, for men it was 21. But she died in 1928, just before universal suffrage for everyone over 21 became law. A statue is to be raised in the city for her. Where it will be we don't know as yet.

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