History of Manchester - 8. Suffragette City

In the late 1800s, Manchester’s political revolution was well underway. Ideas and movements born or nurtured in the city were fast becoming mainstream ideas that would go on to influence national and international politics. It’s a story that starts with Lancashire cotton workers voting to keep the blockade of cotton from Southern States during the US Civil War, even during a regional famine, and the the long and violent fight for the rights and recognition of women as equal members of society to men. In that story are the formidable women of Manchester - Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela, Annie Kenney, Lydia Becker, Constance Gore-Booth and the many radical supporters of the movement that would come to be known as the ’Suffragettes’. See how Manchester influenced the lives not only of great statemen like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, but millions of women around the world, galvanised by the actions of the city’s unwavering women. ============