Joanna M. Williams

The Great Miss Lydia Becker

Suffragist, Scientist & Trailblazer

Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868. This surprising event o...

The Great Miss Lydia Becker

Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer

Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868. This surprising event o...

Manchester's Radical Mayor

Abel Heywood, The Man Who Built the Town Hall

Known in his day as the man who built the Town Hall, Abel Heywood was a leading Manchester publisher who entertained royalty at his home and twice bec...