Members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, lead by Canonbury resident Diane Brace (top), ended a feminist walk of London last weekend by meeting Emily Thornberry MP (middle), who showed them a very special broom cupboard under the House of Commons.
The cupboard, in St Mary's Undercroft under Westminster Hall, was a hiding place for Suffragette Emily Davison on the night of the 1911 Census. By hiding there, Ms Davison was able to give her address that night on the Census form as the "House of Commons" - to make her claim for women to have the same political rights as men.
A plaque inside the cupboard, installed by Tony Benn out of his own initiative and expense, commemorates her actions. The plaque describes her as "a brave Suffragette campaigning for votes for women at a time when Parliament denied them that right"
