Norwich Suffragettes:'Deeds Not Words'with Gill Blanchard

Discover the long history of womens fight for the right to vote. Looking at the broader context of womens campaigns and protests in the decades after the Great Reform Act of 1832 up to 1928 when all women could vote on equal terms to men. Find out about the different female suffrage campaigns with a focus on Norwich.About the speaker
Gill Blanchard is a historical biographer, a writer of local histories, professional genealogist and house historian, based in Norwich. She has had four books published on tracing family and house histories and writing a family history, and writes regularly for national magazines on related topics. Her books include Struggle and Suffrage in Norwich: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality which explores the lives of womenboth ordinary and extraordinarywho fought for change in Norwich, England, from 18501950.