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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lucinda Cameron

Model of suffragette’s 1909 rooftop protest donated to library where it happened

A model exploring a suffragette’s rooftop protest in 1909 has been acquired by the library where it happened.

American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, climbed on to the roof of St Andrew’s Halls in Glasgow, whose facade is now part of the Mitchell Library, on August 19 that year and hid overnight.

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