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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#OnThisDay, 26 July 1913, around 50,000 people - mostly women - rally in Hyde Park, London as part of campaigning for votes for women in Britain.

Some of the marchers had set out from Cornwall or Scotland six weeks earlier. Many of them had faced abuse and assault along the way.

https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-1913-suffrage-pilgrimage-peaceful-protest-and-local-disorder/

#WomenInHistory#OTD #History#WomensHistory#VotesForWomen #BritishHistory#Histodons

Millicent Fawcett addressing the crowd at Hyde Park. The banner behind her highlights that her National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies are "law abiding suffragists". All the women on the speaking platform are white.
Millicent Fawcett addressing the crowd at Hyde Park. The banner behind her highlights that her National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies are "law abiding suffragists". All the women on the speaking platform are white.
Millicent Fawcett addressing the crowd at Hyde Park. The banner behind her highlights that her National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies are "law abiding suffragists". All the women on the speaking platform are white.
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