OXFORD’S Bodleian Library has revealed more details about its forthcoming exhibition on women’s suffrage.
Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared will open at the Weston Library in Broad Street, from Tuesday, March 6.
Archive material will go on display to celebrate the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which paved the way for all women getting the vote.
Highlights will include a ‘lost banner’, a specially commissioned recreation of a banner originally used by the Oxford Women’s Suffrage Society in 1908, and a display featuring the perspectives of contemporary women one hundred years since the vote was won.
Professor Senia Paseta, co-Director of Women in the Humanities, History Tutor at St Hugh’s College, and the curator of the exhibition, said: “As well as highlighting the richness of the Bodleian’s holdings produced by women, this exhibition will showcase aspects of Oxford’s particular suffrage history.”
Books belonging to some of Britain’s most famous female monarchs will also be shown, including a beautifully embroidered book written and produced by an 11-year-old Elizabeth I for her step-mother Catherine Parr.
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