An outstanding piece from Mr Collins, linking to his 25 audio pieces with slides. It starts with this:
This is a shameless bit of advertising. I have made my first – and possibly last – foray onto YouTube.
The epochal 1918 Representation of the People Act will have its centenary in February 2018. This Act gave the vote to the majority of women for the first time in the UK. It also gave the vote to a far larger number of men than any other kindred Act. It is right that it should be celebrated. But it should be celebrated as a triumph for the principle of democracy – that the Parliamentary vote is a matter of right, not a matter of wealth.
My concern is that it may be celebrated for the wrong reasons. So my videos are a pre-emptive strike.
Nice one. Fed up to my back teeth with hearing about how women finally got the vote from those rotten men, and how wonderful the sufragettes were – when most men didn’t have a vote either, and the suffragettes didn’t actually want all women to have the vote anyway, just the “nice” (rich) ones with the “correct” views and society connections. From the way most women talk and view the world you’d think that all women were taken out of the kitchen or nursery and beaten thrice daily until the nineteen-sixties.
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