Selina Cooper

Cooper started work in a Lancashire cotton mill as a child and became one of the "radical suffragists" who rooted the women's vote in trade unions rather than drawing rooms. In 1901 she was among the mill workers who carried a petition signed by nearly 30,000 Lancashire textile women to Westminster, and she spent years persuading the labour movement to back votes for women. She shows the working-class campaign that the suffragette story tends to leave out.