Pankhurst Lecture 2017 at The University of Manchester

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Pankhurst Lecture 2017 at The University of Manchester

University Place, Manchester
9 March 2017

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Margaret Hodge
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Hear from an eminent Parliamentarian how far women have come since Christabel Pankhurst was not allowed to practise law after graduating from Manchester with a First – and how far we still have to go.

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