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Did most women want the vote?

Perhaps not – it was the suffragettes’ female opponents who asked for a referendum to check. But it’s easier for us to forget that

Polite refusal: a poster for a meeting organised by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage at the Royal Albert Hall in 1912 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/Alamy/iStock]

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