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Perth, Scotland
Posts by Gill
Perth, Scotland
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November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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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‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the casting of a parliamentary vote by Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, more than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918. On 2…
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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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/…done great mischief with his sorceries & witchcraft." During trial it became clear Bryce had been tortured to try to make him confess to witchcraft, so Bryce was freed, but his captors were instead later tried & hanged!
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Dunblane traditions by John Monteath | Open Library
Dunblane traditions by John Monteath, 1887, Reprinted by J. Miller edition, in English
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November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
/…done great mischief with his sorceries & witchcraft." During trial it became clear Bryce had been tortured to try to make him confess to witchcraft, so Bryce was freed, but his captors were instead later tried & hanged!
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