GCPP Davies 17/51
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'To the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled', 1866
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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Davies 17/51
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Petition for the extension of the vote to women who fulfil the property or rental qualification. Printed. The first suffrage petition. In the Family Chronicle ED describes driving round Westminster with Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and Bessie Parkes in a carriage hired by BLSB with placards of support. A committee was formed to draft a petition in support of the franchise, presented by Mill on 7 June 1866 - some 1500 signatures collected from all over the UK in little over a...
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1866
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