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Reference LSE/ILP/4/1906/25 Letter
from Emmeline Pankhurst to Keir Hardie, 12 January 1906 Emmeline Pankhurst urged Keir Hardie to return to Merthyr Tydfil ‘where no doubt you will win but we must fight as for life’. She feared that Hardie’s absence from the constituency would cost him the seat and was keen to see supporters of women’s suffrage in Parliament.
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