{"id":2626,"date":"2016-06-10T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:39","slug":"1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/06\/10\/1866-suffrage-petition-150th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"1866 suffrage petition 150th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">It is 150 years since The Women&#8217;s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women&#8217;s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament by John Stuart Mill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Find out with an introduction from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/business\/committees\/committees-a-z\/commons-select\/petitions-committee\/petition-of-the-month\/votes-for-women-the-1866-suffrage-petition\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Parliament website<\/span><\/a> where t<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">here is an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.uk\/about\/living-heritage\/transformingsociety\/electionsvoting\/womenvote\/parliamentary-collections\/1866-suffrage-petition\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">online exhibition with a list of names.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The LSE Library has a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/library\/exhibitions\/home.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">special exhibition Endless Endeavours<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> which is commemorating this.\u00a0 It also has an online <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lselibrary\/albums\/72157667367597386\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Flickr Album with some images form the exhibition.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0 These include fascinating letters from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lselibrary\/26303808710\/in\/album-72157667367597386\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">Helen Taylor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> describing the process of organising the petition\u00a0 and hoping that 100 signatures would be collected!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 150 years since The Women&#8217;s Suffrage Committee, formed by Barbara Bodichon, collected 1,500 signatures on a petition for women&#8217;s suffrage in 1866 and it was presented to parliament by John Stuart Mill. Find out with an introduction from the Parliament website where there is an online exhibition with a list of names. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41,52,331,93,315,99],"class_list":["post-2626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-feminism","tag-suffrage","tag-united-kingdom","tag-voting","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2627,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626\/revisions\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}