Looking back

Little-seen photographs and artefacts linked to the women and children involved in the suffragette movement in Edinburgh a century ago are to take centre stage in a major exhibition planned for this summer.

Women today are free, liberated and in power. And the men, honour, respect and worship the ground they walk on. Mothers, sisters, grannies, daughters and aunts are our companions and our figureheads, our guardians and our protectors. The modern western women is loved and admired and embraced, especially in the Western hemisphere. Much work by the feminists still needs to be done to assist the women of Iran, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Afghanistan and many other countries in that region.

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As evinced from recent postings on Clara Ponsatí, unionists would merely judge most suffragettes as criminals.

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The Suffragettes stood their ground and were often imprisoned and some were force fed. They didn’t flee to a foreign country when the going got tough.

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