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We were delighted to announce in February 2018 that the Alice Hawkins collection was to be shown for the first time ever on public display in our ‘Voice and Vote: Women’s Place in Parliament’ exhibition in the summer of 2018. Our Vote 100 volunteers Oonagh Gay and Isobel White have been finding out all about her in preparation. Read more...
With a statue of Alice unveiled in centenary year 2018 and her very own suffragette memorabilia loaned to the UK Parliament as a star feature in the summer Voice and Vote exhibition, her great-grandson Peter Barratt gives a stirring and passionate account of Alice's suffrage campaign over a 100 years ago. Read more...
On Sunday 4th February 2018, at the first major event in the year's suffrage centenary celebrations, an imposing seven-foot-tall bronze statue of Alice Hawkins was unveiled in Leicester’s New Market Square; the first ever of a named woman in the city. Read more...
UK Parliament “Voice and Vote: Women’s Place in Parliament”, a ground-breaking free exhibition which opened on 27 June 2018.
Located in Westminster Hall, the exhibition used immersive and interactive technologies to tell the story of women and parliament. Read more...
Late 2017.We are very pleased to have another blog from Peter Barratt, great grandson of suffragette Alice Hawkins. Peter has been bringing her amazing story to life through talks and, this summer, performances at Edinburgh Festival. Now he gives us an insight into the making of her statue. Read more...
As a great-grandson of Leicester suffragette, Alice Hawkins, I have always found the account of her campaign for the right to vote truly inspiring and one that needed to be told. So with this in mind for the past ten years I have spoken to many groups, societies and schools and have never lost the enthusiasm. Read more...
