The fight for women to have the vote was at its fiercest in the Edwardian era and Knutsford became a battleground thanks to a small but hugely significant group of activists. Led by women who became famous international figures they fought, not with the militancy of the Pankhurst Suffragettes, but with strongly held principles and stone-cold reason. That they came together in Knutsford, one of the country’s most conservative towns, was remarkable. That their story has only just emerged, even more so. Author and retired journalist Colin Evans reveals it here.
