"Letter from the Manchester, Salford, and District Women's Trade and The Labour Council and National Industrial and Professional Women's Sufferage Society" [NMLH.2018.178]

Catalogue Number
NMLH.2018.178

Object Name
Letter

Title
'Manchester, Salford and District Women's Trade and Labour Council. Nationa Industrial and Professional Women's Suffrage Society'

Place
Manchester

People
Eva Gore-Booth, Sarah Dickenson, Esther Roper, Sarah Reddish, Women's Trade and Labour Council, National Industrial and Professional Women's Suffrage Society

Events
Womens' Suffrage campaign

Date
1917

Description
Letter from The Manchester, Salford and District Women’s Trade and The Labour Council and National Industrial and Professional Women’s Suffrage Society, dated March 30th, 1917. Signatories listed: Eva Gore-Booth, Sarah Dickenson, Esther G. Roper and Sarah Reddish.


Women over 30 won the right to vote in 1918, and suffrage was extended to all adults over the age of majority (then 21) in 1928.

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