Remarkable Women
by Staff | The Guardian | April 24, 2018
The first statue of a woman in Parliament Square has been unveiled two years after the campaign for female representation outside the Palace of Westminster began. The statue of Millicent Fawcett, the suffragist who fought for women’s right to vote in the early 20th century, joins 11 male statues in the square.
At the event Helen McCrory read a speech by Fawcett. You can see an excerpt of the speech here.
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