The east London origins of votes for women - BBC London News

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This year marks the one hundred year anniversary of the first women getting the right to vote. But the fight for all women to get the vote went on. And east Londoners played a key role in that campaign - because working class women mobilised to add their voice to the cause. Nicola Ford reports from Bow.

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