Pankhurst Centre needs public funding, say women's rights activists

Campaigners hope centenary of women gaining the vote might bring change of fortunes for Manchester museum dedicated to suffragette movementThe UK’s only museum dedicated to the suffrage movement is in dire need of investment, campaigners have argued, speaking before the 100-year anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.The Women’s Social and Political Union, an organisation that campaigned for woman’s suffrage in the UK, was founded in the parlour of Emmeline Pankhurst’s home in Chorlton-on-Medlock, south Manchester, in 1903. Continue reading…
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