suffragette

This year marks the centenary of a great turning point in social history. After several decades of suffrage struggle, The Qualification Act of 1918 permitted women (over the age of 30) to vote and stand as candidates in elections. In the…

Harriet Tubman was born as Araminta Ross in Dorchester County, Maryland, sometime around 1822. The exact year is debatable - nobody bothered recording it, as nobody in authority really cared exactly when a slave baby was born. Because…

The cinema-goer remembers his late mother, a laundry worker, as he watches the film Suffragette. It's the hard-hitting tale of a struggle for equality; a mediation on violence and non-violence; a set of family dramas and a major…