Showing posts with label Votes for Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Votes for Women. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 January 2025

What if Rin Tin Tin had been born a cat?

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You will have to be of a certain age to remember Rin Tin Tin. Where the North Begins, 1923 He was a star of films radio and TV and his media...
Thursday, 3 February 2022

The Valentine Card …… that just keeps giving …… votes for women ….. a postcard artist .... and a place in Indiana

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Now here is a picture postcard which offers up so much history.  On one level it mixes that annual event of Valentine’s Day with the campaig...
Monday, 18 January 2021

Doing time for your beliefs ……. a picture post card and a place in Yorkshire

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Now, I can’t make my mind up about this picture postcard which was sent in the March of 1911. The historian in me is drawn into what quite c...
Tuesday, 10 March 2015

A life rediscovered and the campaign to get women the vote part two

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Miss Maxwell, possibly 1867 This is Lily Maxwell and until last year ago I knew nothing of her but she has caught my imagination. She...
Monday, 17 March 2014

Looking for Lily Maxwell, who voted in a municipal election in 1867

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Now I blame Graham, who posted this picture of Lily Maxwell and the accompanying notes “First woman to record a vote in a municipal ele...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

In the summer of 1906

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It is the July of 1906 and you are looking at the school athletic ground.   The picture I think perfectly conveys that image of mid Edwa...