Category: Thinking
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Hearing Voices – Some Thoughts on Suffrage
My first home was 47 North Hill, Colchester, Essex. Eighty-seven years before I arrived there, over the road, at number 12, the women of Colchester had organised themselves to send the first ever suffragette petition to Parliament. Just thirty-two years before my birth, the Conservative government had passed the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise)…