I cringed a little at the names that the Mayor of London came up with for six Overground railway lines – Windrush, Suffragette and Lioness among them. Their uncritical agitprop implied everyone had signed up to an approved version of history.
Glynis Johns, the husky-voiced British actress most widely known for her role as a suffragette who reconnects with her children thanks to a magical nanny in the blockbuster 1964 musical movie 'Mary Poppins', has died at the age of 100.
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Almost 110 years ago, on July 7, 1913, Edith Rigby, a suffragette from Preston, burned down Lord Leverhulme’s bungalow in Rivington. On her arrest…