Helen Brooke only met her great-aunt Cynthia once, at a 1950s family get-together when she was just seven years old.
What she didn’t realise due to her tender years, was the extraordinary life of the woman in front of her, and just how much she shaped the world Helen was to grow up in.
Cynthia Maguire was a suffragette who joined the women’s rights movement aged 20, back in 1909.
