The Pankhurst Centre
Victorian villa where the suffragette movement was born, with a restored Edwardian family parlour.
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This guide to the Pankhurst Centre in Manchester begins with an impatient daughter, Christabel Pankhurst, and a visit by the American campaigner Susan B. Anthony in nineteen oh-two. It follows her widowed mother Emmeline, the Independent Labour Party women she invited to this Nelson Street house in October nineteen oh-three, and the rules they set for themselves. Later it turns to the Edwardian parlour and the fight in the late twentieth century over whether the house would survive at all.
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