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  1. 4 hours ago

    Have you been following the deaf children’s service debate? Watch it live now ⬇️

    . is leading a debate on deaf children's services. Watch with BSL interpretation on Parliament TV
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    9 hours ago

    THREAD: We’ve just had a reply from about parliamentary scrutiny of EU laws during the post- transition period. Why does this matter? 1/6

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  3. 6 hours ago

    💬Interested in sharing your views on other topics that matter to you? The Digital Engagement Programme from is a way for you to get your voice heard by MPs. Find out more at

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  4. 6 hours ago

    In August asked the public to share their views on deaf children’s services with . MPs will debate the topic in Westminster Hall at 1.30 today and you can watch live with BSL interpretation at:

    portrait of Jim Fitzpatrick MP with text "Do you have a deaf child? What has been their experience of education support services?"
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  5. Sep 12

    You can now watch today's over on our YouTube channel:

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  6. Sep 12

    Catch up on “Ask a Curator Day UK Parliament 2018”

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  7. Sep 12

    That's all from me. Thanks for reading. The 'Voice and Vote: Women’s Place in Parliament’ exhibition is open to the public Monday to Saturday until 6 October. Book your free ticket at - Mari.

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  8. Sep 12

    Helen Fox and Muriel Matters chained themselves to the Ladies’ Gallery and Violet Tillard lowered the banner into the chamber. The women were cut free and the banner put in a cupboard and forgotten about, rediscovered in the Serjeant at Arms office during the 1990s.

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  9. Sep 12

    💬"What’s your favourite item in the Parliamentary Archives?" This suffragette banner dropped into the chamber from the Ladies’ Gallery during a protest by the Women’s Freedom League on 28 October 1908. ©Parliamentary Archives

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  10. Sep 12

    The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), led by Millicent Fawcett, organised mass petitions, huge marches, sent deputations to Parliament and lobbied MPs. I would have loved to help with that kind of thing.

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  11. Sep 12

    💬"Would you have been a suffragette?" I don’t think I would have been a suffragette, I wouldn't have been brave enough to break the law, go to prison, or go on hunger-strike. I like to think I would have been a suffragist, one of the peaceful campaigners.

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  12. Sep 12

    She was a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union and imprisoned five times for her role in WSPU protests. Her collection of WSPU memorabilia is on public display for the first time in our Voice and Vote exhibition, on loan from her family. © Parliament

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  13. Sep 12

    I love this collection that once belonged to Alice Hawkins. She was a suffragette and a true working-class woman. She was a machinist at the Equity shoe factory in Leicester, a socialist and trade unionist, and a mother of six children.

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  14. Sep 12

    This space was where women watched proceedings through a ventilation shaft in the ceiling. Can you imagine what it must have felt like to peer down at the men below and listen to debates in a space like this? by Lady Georgiana Chatterton 1821 ©

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  15. Sep 12

    This watercolour from 1821 is on loan from our friends . Discovered by a researcher via a few years ago. It shows the view from the Ventilator, an octagonal structure in the attic space above the . Can you guess what it was for?

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  16. Sep 12

    I'm often asked what my favourite items in the collection are. It's so hard to choose just one so I wanted to share some with you today. Feel free to ask me any questions about our archives and my work.

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  17. Sep 12

    Dr Mari Takayanagi is Senior Archivist in the Parliamentary Archives and Co-Curator for ‘Voice and Vote: Women’s Place in Parliament’. Mari has worked in Parliament since 2000 and completed her PhD on Parliament and women in 2012. © Parliament/Jessica Taylor

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    Sep 12
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    Greetings , we have a connection to Pugin too—the Speaker’s Chair is a replica of the original Speaker’s Chair at Westminster. It was a gift from your country to ours after the 1916 fire at our Parliament.

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  19. Sep 12

    Thanks for reading about our collection and for your questions today. It's been great. I'll do my best to answer anymore, you can check out the rest of this thread to catch up. - James

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  20. Sep 12

    I didn't want go end without mentioning our friends at . Parliament’s portrait of by Stuart Pearson Wright is currently on loan to the People’s History Museum free exhibition 'Represent! Voices 100 Years On': .

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