Showing posts with label suffragettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suffragettes. Show all posts

Monday, 2 July 2018

Women's long journey to win the right to vote


It was 90 years ago, on 2 July 1928, that women in Britain finally achieved equal voting rights with men. But it took almost 100 years of losing vote after vote before women won the right to vote.

Monday, 4 May 2015

Can’t vote or don’t vote?

















Tony Benn once defined democracy very succinctly:  'The right of the people to get rid of their government.'  That’s a right all of us who live in democracies should cherish.