Emily Goulden was born on 14 July 1858 in Manchester into a family with a tradition of radical politics. In 1879 she married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer and supporter of the women's suffrage movement. He was the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and 1882, which allowed women to keep earnings or property owned before and after marriage. In 1889 Emily founded the Women's Franchise League, which fought to allow married women to vote in local elections. In October 1903 she helped found the more militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organisation that gained much attention for its militant activities and whose members were the first to be christened 'suffragettes'. British politicians, press and public were astonished by the demonstrations, window smashing, arson and hunger strikes of the suffragettes. In 1913, WSPU member Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the King's horse at the Derby as a protest at the government's continued to give women the right to vote. Emily was imprisoned and went on a hunger strike during imprisonment, resulting in violent force-feeding. Emily's cause was ended abruptly on the outbreak of war in 1914, when Emily turned her energies to supporting the war effort. In 1918 the Representation of the People Act gave voting rights to women over 30. Emily died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women were granted equal voting rights with men.

Collonges-la-Rouge, France "Collonges takes its name from the Latin Colonica "house of the column". The monks of the Abbey of Charroux in Poitou a priory founded in the eighth century. It draws under its protection a population of farmers, artisans and merchants. Around its buildings protected by an enclosure, thriving community. The reception of pilgrims on the way to Compostela via Rocamadour is a sustainable source of profits. In 1308, Viscount de Turenne gives the town a charter franchise. The right to court high, medium and low to the program. He presides at birth lines of prosecutors, lawyers and notaries. The enclosure is no longer sufficient to contain its population. Created then was barris: the suburb of Veyrie to the east, as Hautefort, Faure, Guitardie. After the religious wars, the reconstruction of the heritage of the minor nobility coincides with the rise of viscountcy. At that time amounted nobles logis officers of the viscountcy. Following the sale of the viscountcy in 1738, then the Revolution, which destroyed buildings of the priory, the town would find that ephemeral prosperity in the early nineteenth century. Collonges is gradually losing its inhabitants, the village is transforming into a stone quarry. In the early twentieth century, some Collongeois created the Association des Amis de Collonges to the classification of the site as a whole in 1942." Wikipedia