first female statue in Parliament Square - reps 56 activists!
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Millicent Fawcett, Parliament Square
Millicent Fawcett Statue, Parliament Square, London, September 2018; photograph by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa. After a grassroots campaign, the leader of the constitutional suffrage movement became the first woman to be represented in Parliament Square, directly outside the British Houses of Parliament.
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Millicent holding Westminster accountable
Viewing the British Houses of Parliament.
Millicent Fawcett Statue, Parliament Square, London, September 2018; photograph by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa.
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1 statue for 56 activists
The plinth on which Fawcett stands carries the further images of 55 women – and four men – who were part of the fight for women’s right to vote.
Millicent Fawcett Statue, Parliament Square, London, September 2018; photograph by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa.