The fact that the suffragette’s story is still so well remembered today, 100 years on, makes you realise how difficult it was to get the vote for women. A memorial to Emmeline Pankhurst is being unveiled on 14 December this year in Manchester, the birthplace of the British suffragette movement.Īfter lunch it was the Senior School’s turn to meet Helen.Helen’s grandmother, Sylvia Pankhurst was an artist as well as a campaigner and there is currently an exhibition of her work up in Scarborough.Purple stood for dignity, green symbolised hope and white indicated purity.
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