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Gallery Tour - A Selection of Elections: votes, suffrage and reform

Join the curator for a guided walk through the exhibition and learn about the stories behind the objects on display.

Image: Election candidates in Mansfield, 1970, probably photographed for the Mansfield Chronicle and Advertiser. Fred Westacott Collection, FWC 4/15/21.

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A Selection of Elections: votes, suffrage and reform

The year 2018 marks the centenary of the first UK general election in which some women were entitled to vote. We celebrate that fact by looking back at some memorable elections and exploring how electioneering has changed over the years.
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Talk - Women's Suffrage up to 1928

Val Wood of the Nottingham Women’s History Group considers the impact of the franchise for the women of Nottingham in terms of women’s political representation and suffrage activism in the city from 1918 to 1928.