this features Dame Millicent Fawcett the famous suffragist.
It followed a campaigned by Caroline Criado Perez whose website provides details of her activism for this.
See the Guardian newspaper gallery of images of the event
Read the transcript of the Prime Minister's speech
Mayor of London Press release
it forms part of the year long #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign
Google Arts and Culture has a special feature Road to equality which includes discussion with Gillian Wearing on the creative process that went into making the statue.It also has an online exhibition with a timeline and biography of Millicent Fawcett's life and work with stunning original photographs and manuscript images.
here are some resources to find out more.
Read her writings via Project Gutenberg.
They include
Women's Suffrage: A Short History of a Great Movement
The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918
BBC Radio 4 Great Lives series provides a short podcast discussing her life . thi was recorded in 2006 and features. Matthew Parris talking to feminist campaigner Lesley Abdela about why she has nominated Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a suffragette campaigner, for great lives status. Historian Elizabeth Crawford joins the debate
Use the National Archives Discovery Catalogue to find records of archives
The include the personal papers of Millicent Garrett Fawcett; which are held by the Womens Library@LSE
Find out more about contemporary campaigns on the Fawcett Society website
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