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Banner encouraging the United Kingdom to give women the vote, by Dora Meeson Coates, 1908

This banner was created by Australian artist Dora Meeson and was first carried by Vida Goldstein and other Australian women in a march in London in 1908. The banner asks ‘Mother England’ to entrust women with the responsibility and the right to vote, as the Australian nation had done in 1902.

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