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And now welcome to the podcast for our history program witness.

My name is Louis Adagelgo and today I'm taking you back to February the 6th, 1918, when women

in Britain were given the vote for the first time.

The campaign for women's suffrage had begun decades earlier, but it

wasn't until the final months of the First World War that Parliament relented and gave them the

vote. I've been listening back to accounts of direct action

taken by the women activists known as suffragettes, and I've been talking to the

daughter of an early feminist, early feminist. It was in February 18.

Shoupe, shout,

up with your song. It was in February 1918 that Parliament in Britain passed the representation of the People Act, giving all men over the age of 21 and all property owning women over 30 the right to vote.

The March of the Women was the Battle Song of the Suffragettes, a militant band of women led by

Emeline Pankhurst who in the years before 1918 had waged a war of civil disobedience

to get women the vote.

Dame Ethel Smyth, who composed the anthem,

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