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Kenny Arnold, owner of Kenny Arnold Hairdressing, is also founder of Stevenage People for People – a community group which helps support people who are struggling. He and his team of volunteers have supported food banks, day centres, schools and individuals.
Former MP for Hitchin and Stevenage Shirley Williams was made Baroness Williams of Crosby in 1993. She is pictured here after being awarded the Companies of Honour for services of political and public life
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The late Baroness Shirley Williams, daughter of famous memoirist Vera Brittain, served as MP for Hitchin from 1964 to 1974 and for Stevenage and Hertford from 1974 to 1979. She later became a life peeress and served as President of Stevenage Liberal Democrats.
A daughter of suffrage activist Emmeline Pankhurst and a sister of Sylvia Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst advocated the use of militant tactics to win the vote for women in England. With her mother she founded the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1903. Reflecting the Union’s slogan, “Deeds not Words,” Pankhurst, with Annie Kenney, fired the opening salvo in the militant suffrage campaign by disrupting a Liberal Party meeting in Manchester in 1905. Her action (she unfurled a banner reading “Votes for Women”) received worldwide attention after she was sent to jail.
Pankhurst subsequently directed a campaign that included direct physical action, hunger strikes, and huge open-air rallies. During World War I, she declared a suffrage truce and helped to lead the war effort in England; in 1928 women became enfranchised in that country. In later life Pankhurst became a religious evangelist.
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What was Emmeline Pankhurst’s family like?
Both of Emmeline Pankhurst’s parents were abolitionists. Her father was on a committee that welcomed American abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher to England, while her mother read her bedtime stories from
Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Both also supported equal suffrage. Her parents’ dedication to ending social injustices likely shaped her own commitment to the women’s suffrage movement.
Why was Emmeline Pankhurst so influential?
Emmeline Pankhurst was a founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union, a British organization that thrust the disenfranchisement of women into public consciousness. Her organization focused on “deeds, not words,” and used public demonstrations and acts of militancy to tip public opinion in favour of equal suffrage. Pankhurst also frequently lectured on women’s suffrage.
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