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The ‘Votes for Women’ movement was incredibly creative in the strategies it employed to get its message through to those in power. But where did roller skating come into the equation? Dr Naomi Paxton has the answer.

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The music in this clip is Cecile Chaminade's Valse carnavalesque for two pianos, Op.73 performed by Bengt Forsberg and Peter Jablonski.
The image is composite of images from the LSE Library and the Internet Archive Book Images collection.