General Election 2010 – Remembering the Suffragettes

Polling has finished, and the first few seats have been announced as I write, so I thought it was apt to mention the Suffragettes, who fought for women’s right to vote. We have some plaques commemorating some of the most notable ladies:

1. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Holland Park
2. Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, Manchester
3. Lady Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Bristol
4. Annie Kenney, Bristol
5. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Camden
6. Victoria Lidiard, Brighton
7. Elizabeth and Helen Sturge, Bristol
8. Anne Knight, Chelmsford
9. Hannah Maria Mitchell, Manchester
10. Alice Hawkins, Leicester
11. Agnes Archer Evans, Leicester

Photograph: Jez Nicholson

Photograph: Simon Harriyott