Manchester's Emmeline Pankhurst statue gets government backing

Suffragette leader will join Queen Victoria among city centre’s otherwise all-male civic monuments next yearThe government is to help fund a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester, the city’s first monument to a woman in more than 100 years.The statue of the suffragette leader, who was from the city’s Moss Side neighbourhood, will be unveiled on 14 December 2018 to mark 100 years since women first voted in a UK general election. Continue reading...