It is 100 years since British women won the right to vote. Few know that members and leaders of campaign groups included women and men of migrant heritage, from Germany to the USA, from Guyana to Australia.
When plans to deliver a petition to Parliament on women’s suffrage were drawn up in 1866, signatures were collected at Aubrey House, a centre of radical thought in London. The signatories included Harriet Martineau, a descendant of Huguenot refugees from France whose popular writings condemned slavery and the inequality of women.
Another signatory…
It is 100 years since British women won the right to vote. Few know that members and leaders of campaign groups included women and men of migrant heritage, from Germany…
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