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Lydia Becker

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Lydia Ernestine Becker (24 February 1827 – 18 July 1890) was a leader in the early British suffrage movement, as well as an amateur scientist with interests in biology and astronomy. [1]

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Agnes Pochin

Agnes Pochin or Agnes Heap (1825 – 1908) was an early British campaigner for women's rights.

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Aix-les-Bains

Aix-les-Bains (French: Èx-los-Bens, Aquae Gratianae), locally called Aix, is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

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Astronomy

Astronomy (from ἀστρονομία) is a natural science that studies celestial objects and phenomena.

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Barbara Bodichon

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, and a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.

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Biology

Biology is the natural science that studies life and living organisms, including their physical structure, chemical composition, function, development and evolution.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Caernarfonshire

Caernarfonshire (Sir Gaernarfon), historically spelled as Caernarvonshire or Carnarvonshire in English, is one of the thirteen historic counties, a vice-county and a former administrative county of Wales.

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Caroline Ashurst Biggs

Caroline Ashurst Biggs (1840-1889) was an advocate for women’s rights and a third generation member of the Ashurst family of radical activists.

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Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage

Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage was a committee formed in 1872 in London to lobby parliament.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist and leader of the British suffragette movement who helped women win the right to vote.

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Eva McLaren

Eva Maria McLaren (1852-1921) was an English suffragist, writer and campaigner.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist, and leading women's suffrage campaigner.

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Free Trade Hall

The Free Trade Hall in Peter Street, Manchester, England, was a public hall constructed in 1853–56 on St Peter's Fields, the site of the Peterloo Massacre and is now a Radisson hotel.

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Girton College, Cambridge

Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.

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Helen Blackburn

Helen Blackburn (25 May 1842 – 11 January 1903) was a feminist and campaigner for women's rights, especially in the field of employment.

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House of Keys

The House of Keys (Yn Kiare as Feed) is the directly elected lower branch of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Jessie Boucherett

(Emilia) Jessie Boucherett (November 1825 – 18 October 1905) was an English campaigner for women's rights.

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John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, PC (3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894) was an English lawyer, judge and Liberal politician.

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Kensal Green Cemetery

Kensal Green Cemetery is in Kensal Green in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Lilly Maxwell

Lilly Maxwell or Lily Maxwell (c.1800 – 1876) was a British Scottish suffragist who was said to be the first woman to vote by campaigning suffragists in Manchester.

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Local election

In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Margaret Bright Lucas

Margaret Bright Lucas (14 July 1818 – 4 February 1890) was a British temperance activist and suffragist.

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Millicent Fawcett

Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was a British intellectual, political leader, activist and writer.

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National Society for Women's Suffrage

The National Society for Women's Suffrage was the first national group in the United Kingdom to campaign for women's right to vote.

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Northern England

Northern England, also known simply as the North, is the northern part of England, considered as a single cultural area.

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Ohrdruf

Ohrdruf is a small town in the district of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia.

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Parliament Square

Parliament Square is a square at the northwest end of the Palace of Westminster in central London.

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Pedestal

A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo, "foot of a stall") or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase.

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Priscilla Bright McLaren

Priscilla Bright McLaren (8 September 1815 – 5 November 1906) was a British activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement in the nineteenth century.

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Returning officer

In various parliamentary systems, a returning officer is responsible for overseeing elections in one or more constituencies.

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Richard Pankhurst

Richard Marsden Pankhurst (1835/6 – 5 July 1898) was an English barrister and socialist who was a strong supporter of women's rights.

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Roger Fulford

Sir Roger Thomas Baldwin Fulford CVO (24 November 1902 – 18 May 1983) was an English journalist, historian, writer and politician.

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Savoie

Savoie (Arpitan: Savouè, Italian: Savoia, English: Savoy) is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of the French Alps.

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School boards in England and Wales

School boards were public bodies in England and Wales between 1870 and 1902, which established and administered elementary schools.

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Spa town

A spa town is a resort town based on a mineral spa (a developed mineral spring).

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Statue of Millicent Fawcett

The statue of Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist leader and social campaigner, in Parliament Square, London, is a work of 2018 by the Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing.

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Suffrage

Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).

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Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen) is a federal state in central Germany.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Women's Library

The Women's Library @ LSE is England's main library and museum resource on women and the women's movement, concentrating on Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Women's Suffrage Journal

The Women's Suffrage Journal was a magazine founded by Lydia Becker and Jessie Boucherett in 1870.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Becker

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