Women 'We owe it to their memory': family stories 100 years since the suffragette movement Stories of readers’ relatives as the nation marks a century since the act that paved the way for universal suffrage Gladice Keevil campaigning at the Manchester North West byelection in 1908. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Suffragette brooch passed down among the family of Dora Spong. All the women in their family attended WSPU demonstrations. I am very grateful to them for obtaining the above family photograph taken in about 1900, as it means I can identify all the children from the census record for 1901! I feel we owe that to the memory of these women and others who advanced women’s access to education and professional careers.

Source: The Guardian February 06, 2018 14:03 UTC