What Women Want: Stories from The Women's Library

Thursday 1 May - Saturday 27 September 2008
Closed Saturdays in August
Entrance free

What have women fought for, longed for and achieved? How much have their aspirations changed?
90 years on from the award of the parliamentary vote to women, What Women Want: Stories from The Women's Library uses historic photographs, documents, posters and ephemera to bring to life the struggle for political representation and equality at work, and reveal unexpected insights into the worlds of leisure, beauty and the home.

The exhibition included an impressive display of original suffrage banners marking the 100th anniversary of the March of the Great Women, when up to 15,000 women paraded through the streets of London to demand the right to vote. Visitors were also able to listen to memories of women involved in the suffrage campaigns, originally recorded in the 1970s.

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