Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.166.6
Object Name
Quilt
Title
'Preston Lasses Mun Hey The Vote'
Place
Preston, Lancashire, England, UK
People
Suffragettes
Events
Women's Suffrage (1918, 1928)
Date
circa 1992
Description
Portrait of a half-timer based on a painted banner by Patti Mayor. Largely painted image with faces in foreground, terraced houses in mid-ground and mill silhouetted sky line.
This banner was created in 1992 on the theme of women's suffrage. The text is in Lancashire dialect and can be translated as 'Women from Preston must have the vote'. While some women had been granted the right to vote when the 1918 Representation of the People Act was passed, this only applied to women over the age of 30 who owned property. Young, and working class women, like the working class 'Preston lass' depicted on the banner, were still not permitted to vote. Universal suffrage for all adults over the age of 21, regardless of gender or class, was finally legalised in 1928.
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