Suffragists set for English Heritage blue plaque honour in Westminster
Briefly

The building at 22 Great Smith Street was the London base of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in the eight years leading up to the 1918 change in the law that finally gave some women the right to vote.The suffragists, who used legal campaigning methods as opposed to the more extreme suffragettes, were led by Millicent Garrett Fawcett whose 2018 statue in Parliament Square was the first monument unveiled in the landmark London site.
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