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You can view more than 80 objets d’art, ranging from monumental paintings, woodcuts, and fine embroidery to stained glass, ...
The United Kingdom is preparing to lower the national voting age to just 16 years old ahead of the next general elections. Government offices announced the initiative on Thursday in ...
Britain on Thursday set out plans to lower the voting age to 16 in a landmark reform to the process that underpins one of the world's oldest parliaments. Who can currently vote? At present, anyone ...
Britain on Thursday set out plans to lower the voting age to 16 in a landmark reform to the process that underpins one of the ...
They fought to secure the vote for women. They used direct action, civil disobedience, and increasingly militant tactics to ...
Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...
The first movement, of course, was the suffragettes, and our MPs dressed themselves in the totemic purple, white and green sashes of this venerated struggle, smiling at the camera. Everyone today, of ...
WESTMINSTER has been branded “broken” as MPs celebrated the Suffragettes on the same day as voting to ban a protest group under terrorism laws… ...
In November 2023, four UN Special Rapporteurs (part of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council) pointed out that the ...
A team of Welsh seamstresses have made 264 sashes for every woman MP to mark 97 years since women were given the right to vote. The group, based in Newport, call themselves Lucy and the Sashmeisters, ...
They are white twill sashes, with one purple ribbon down one side and green on the other side, the iconic colours of the British suffragette movement.