Bright's team spotted Maxwell's name and alerted the National Society for Women’s Suffrage - which had only been founded eleven months earlier. A member of the society, Lydia Becker, accompanied her to the polling station.

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Maxwell owned a shop, and paid rates (a local tax) on it. Her name appeared on the electoral role by mistake. When the local by-election was called, the Liberal candidate, Jacob Bright, was a supporter of women’s suffrage.

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I know that page: I'd like to understand if the women in the photo are the sisters or not. That page doesn't include the image, so it doesn't help!

Thank you for flagging. We've been checking and I don't think our source for the image indicated which sister was which, which is why our image description says "three sisters". If you could point us to a source that is clear, we're very happy to fix.

In 1999, the UN designated 25 Nov as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the Mirabal sisters' memory. The day now marks the start of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence.

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No women were allowed to be equal members of the union until 1963, although some were invited to speak there.
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The protest becomes known as Black Friday for the violence, including sexual assault, by the Met police and other men towards the 300 women protestors.

Calls for a public inquiry into the abuse were rejected by the Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.
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Bhutto was accused of corruption, and fled the country after her second term as PM. She lived in exile in Dubai until October 2007. She was assassinated in December 2007.
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Women established the first Greenham camp in September 1981 to protest the hosting of US nuclear missiles on UK common land. Over time, several more camps grew up around the site, most of which were women-only. The peace camps were active for nearly 20 years.

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We tag every achievement pre-2000 as history. Often the recency of the date can startle people into realising just how close something is, and how fragile.

We know Ruby is alive: we corrected someone who used the past tense about her (“Ruby was a hero”) just yesterday.

*is* a hero. She ain’t dead yet.