Women's fight for voting rights is charted in exhibition

Sarah Hartley holding a votes for women paper.Sarah Hartley holding a votes for women paper.
Sarah Hartley holding a votes for women paper.
Women have good cause to celebrate the centenary of a law which gave them the right to vote.

For without the Representation of the People Act, would we now have a female Prime Minister and would Chesterfield have given birth to one of the most influential Government ministers of all time?

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