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06 Jun 2016
Early Day Motion
Commons
150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1866 VOTES FOR WOMEN PETITION
Helen GoodmanLabour
That this House celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first mass petition for women's suffrage on 7 June 1866 which marked the start of the organised campaign for votes for women; salutes the many women who organised it and gathered signatures including Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies, Elizabeth Garrett and Helen Taylor; acknowledges the role of supportive men including John Stuart Mill MP who presented the petition to Parliament and asked Mary Somerville to be the first signatory of a subse...