womens suffrage
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‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867
More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a…
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The reinvention of the political wife in the age of suffrage
Ahead of next Tuesday’s hybrid Parliaments, Politics and People seminar, we hear from Ellie Lowe of Selwyn College, Cambridge. On 13…