The stamp shows the statue of campaigner Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) which stands at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens in London.
Eight million women gained the right to vote in elections through the 1918 Representation of the People's Act. What is less well known is that five million previously disenfranchised men over the age of twenty-one also won the right to vote at the same time, mainly non-householders such as adult children living with parents. Indeed, many of the brave soldiers who fought and died during the Great War (1914-18) would have been either too young to vote, or disbarred from doing so.
Women finally achieved voting parity with men ten years later, in 1928, when the voting age was equalized at twenty-one.
