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Alice Schofield Coates (1882 -1975)
On 10th January 1918 The House of Lords gave its approval to the Representation of the People Bill, which gave woman over the age of 30 the right to vote, as recognition of the contribution made by women defence workers during the First World War. However, women were still not politically equal to men, who could vote from the age of 21. Full electoral equality wouldn't occur until the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act of 1928.
•Here's a good article about Representation of the People Bill, which gave woman over the age of 30 the right to vote:
www.parliament.uk/.../representation-of-the.../
First Woman Councillor in Middlesbrough - elected for Labour in the Ayresome Ward, November 1919.
Born near Manchester, Alice Schofield-Coates trained as a teacher. She moved to Middlesbrough and in 1909 became an organizer for the local branch of the Women’s Freedom League. At one of her first meetings in Guisborough she was pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes. Joining the fledgling Labour Party she campaigned for improved public health and better homes.
‘Alice became Middlesbrough’s first woman Councillor, a magistrate and chair of her constituency Labour Party. Along with her sister-in-law Marion Coates-Hanson she championed slum clearance and better housing, seeing the vote for women as the ‘key to the door’ for social and economic equality.’ Jill Liddington, Rebel Girls, p 304
She represented the Ayresome Ward on Middlesbrough Council from 1919 to 1922 and up to 1926 she was a Grove Hill Ward representative. Her husband Charles Coates was president of Middlesbrough Central Labour Party and represented the Newport Ward in 1924. In 1972, at the age of 90, when Alice was interviewed by Susan Slater, for the Evening Gazette. “Women should still be fighting for their rights”, said the tiny white haired old lady. “We did the pioneer work and now women are benefiting from it. Women should still be fighting for equality, especially for equal pay for equal work”, she said in her room in Levick House.
An active Women’s Freedom League organizer, she was imprisoned in 1909 for her part in a demonstration at the House of Commons.
‘…she and about 20 other women marched on Downing Street to present a petition to Asquith the Prime Minister. The police barred the way, there was a scuffle and Mrs. Coates, then a golden haired girl in her 20’s was sentenced to a month in Holloway Jail for obstructing the police.’ Gazette, 22/02/1972
Can't get over Schofield Pass this year - as of the end of August still a 200 foot section about 15 feet deep of snow covering the road. A light enduro bike might make it but not my 1150GS.
Just outside of Crested Butte is a beautiful pass - gravel mostly, good for off-roading dual purpose motorcycles.
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La Opera, que es el teatro hecho música, representa la cúspide de la expresión musical clásica, que mediante sus textos hechos voces y melodías, nos transmiten conceptos que nos permiten compartir los mensajes temáticos de cada obra, los cuales a su vez se entrelazan con nuestros propios sentimientos. La evocación de nuestras propias vivencias, nos permite realizar acciones introspectivas que contribuyen a mejorar todas nuestras actividades cotidianas, facilitando la constante regeneración de nuestro vinculo físico-espiritual, pilar principal de la correcta preservación y desarrollo de los valores morales en nuestra sociedad.
Todo esto aunado al gran placer que nos produce la Opera, genera la existencia de nuestro espacio radial en el cual en la más entera complicidad, nos encontramos tanto en la labor de difundir como en la de compartir las maravillas de este divino código que es la música.
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