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Stapled paper booklet "FIVE YEARS' STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM / A HISTORY OF THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT 1908-1912". Written by Margaret Wynne Nevinson. Published by the Women's Freedom League. Handwitten notes on cover dates at which votes for women were obtained. One of a collection of items belonging to Welsh suffrage activist Kate Williams Evans. Kate Williams Evans, born in Montgomeryshire in 1866, was sentenced to 2 months hard labour for malicious damage, having smashed a window in a government building in London. She served 54 days in Holloway Prison in March-April 1912, during which she went on hunger strike. after returning to Montgomeryshire later that year, Kate was active in the Women's Freedom League.