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Sunday 29 April 2018

The bizarre excuses given to forbid women from voting

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE : WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE HATS ?!?!?

"There are obvious disadvantages about having women in Parliament. I do not know what is going to be done about their hats. How is a poor little man to get on with a couple of women wearing enormous hats in front of him?" – Rowland Hunt, MP for Ludlow, 1917.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43740033
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2 comments:

  1. Dan Weese29 April 2018 at 16:06

    Eeee-normous hats.

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  2. Catherine Braiding30 April 2018 at 14:39

    This is, of course, just making me want to buy another hat. An enormous one to wear to conferences and upset the men sitting behind me.

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