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The Suffragette's Window Smashed Campaign
My great grandmother, charlotte shaw, and also her sister mabel were suffragettes at the beginning of the twentieth century. They actually lived in manchester, so they were part of the movement there. However, my great grannie decided that she was going to be an early adoptor of the window smashing campaign. She got a brick in her muff, which people don't know were amd. It was like a fur tube that you put your hands into. And asked a policeman in her politest voice, could you tell me where john burn's office is? He was a cabinet minister at the time. The very next day,great grannie thought, right. She
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