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The Spanish Flu pandemic

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The Pankhursts

Suffragette Annie Kenney is arrested during a demonstration. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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5 women’s rights activists you might not know about

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A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain
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What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park
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The 1913 march for women’s suffrage

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The Suffragettes

Diversity in nursing
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In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull
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The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

A woman casts her vote, accompanied by her children, in December 1918. Women weren't as
20th Century

The Library Female suffrage: Victory at last!

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The Library Female suffrage: How the battle was won

A century since women's suffrage. (Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)
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The Library Female suffrage: A century for women?

Mahatma Gandhi in Britain
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Gandhi in Britain

A group of students celebrate their graduation in Cardiff
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My student days

Notre Dame and Paris, France
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The Library My favourite place: Paris, France

American novelist John Updike
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My history hero: John Updike (1932-2009)