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Swindon Suffragettes make
plans for annual festival

Over 70 people took part in a to soldiers returning from the
suffragette march through Old battlefields and to women over
Town on 25 October, culminating in 30 who met a minimum property
a rally at Radnor Street Cemetery qualification.
Chapel to celebrate the contribution More than 8 million women were
made by Swindon born suffragette enfranchised but it was another 10
Edith New to the Votes for Women years before all women were able to
campaign over 100 years ago, vote on equal terms with men.
writes Frances Bevan. Swindon Suffragette’s joint
Undoubtedly Edith New was a organiser, Leah Bevan-Haines said:
radical. She was the first suffragette “We aim to make our first festival an
to chain herself to railings and annual event moving forwards to the
to break windows as a means of nationwide centenary celebrations Swindon Suffragettes on the march along Wood Street,
protest in the battle for female in 2018.” watched closely by the constabulary
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