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The first issue of a magazine for Aberdeen Suffragettes.

Description of Trades Council and Trades Union meetings held in Aberdeen in December 1891.

The central, seated figure represents Provost William Leslie, to whom the image is dedicated. Aberdeen town council at this time were Liberal. The Party of Progress were clearly not as progressive as they wished the town to believe. The image shows…

James Hadden, the Tory candidate, withdrew his candidacy in the 1832 election. The Whig, Alexander Bannerman, was duly elected.

This pamphlet describes the conditions that voters must satisfy if they are to be eligible to vote. Voters must live within seven miles of the city boundaries; property must be worth at least £10 per year. Note how taxes on a property must also be up…