ePetition - Bring Back our City's Suffragette Banner
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Bring Back our City's Suffragette Banner
B & H Women's History Group Petition: Bring Back our City's
Suffragette Banner
Brighton and Hove played a very important part in the struggle for
women’s suffrage – our right to vote. The magnificent
suffragette banner of the Brighton branch of the National
Women’s Social & Political Union (formed in 1907) is made
of beautiful purple twill woven wool, with an applique lettering of
cream cotton sateen and white silk-wrapped cotton cord. However, it
is displayed in Manchester, not here in Brighton.
Many activists, including Mary Clarke, sister of Emmeline Pankhurst
and the first suffragette to die for the cause, worked tirelessly
in Brighton to drum up support from local people and to help turn
the tide of women’s rights.
One of Brighton's Borough Councillors, the late Andy Durr,
discovered the banner in a local second-hand shop, and donated or
loaned it for safekeeping to the People’s History Museum in
Manchester. We are convinced that this banner needs to come back
home to stand as proud testimony to the work of the women of
Brighton & Hove and to educate future generations.
Members of the B&H Women's History Group and those undersigned
call on Brighton & Hove Council to negotiate the return of our
banner to Brighton & Hove, whether permanently or on
loan.
This ePetition ran from 25/02/2019 to 10/07/2019 and has now finished.
216 people signed this ePetition.
Council response
To be presented at the Policy Resources & Growth Committee on 11 July 2019