Members’ Meeting – 14th November
Our next Members’ meeting will be on Thursday 14th November at 2:15pm at the Knutsford Methodist Church. Please aim to be seated by 2pm.
Joanna M Williams will speak on “The Great Miss Lydia Becker Suffragist, Scientist and trailblazer.”
Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the General election of 1868. This surprising event occurred due to the feisty and single-minded dedication of Lydia Becker, the acknowledged but unofficial leader of the Women’s suffrage movement in the later 19th century.