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Historic women in politics you should know about
With the centenary of some women getting the vote, we look at how a renaissance in women’s political history is changing our understanding of our recent past and of Parliament today. Nan Sloane is the former Director of the Centre for Women and Democracy and Oonagh Gay was a senior librarian in the House of Commons Library. They discuss writing about some of our earliest and forgotten women MPs.
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