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Spanish Civil War - Volunteers from the Manchester area
International Brigades were formed in September 1936, to serve with the Republican Army during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).


Wilfred Owen's experiences with the Manchester Regiment
In October 1915, the poet Wilfred Owen enlisted in the Army. He was commissioned into The Manchester Regiment in June 1916, and a year later was posted to the 2nd Battalion in France.

Women's Suffrage - The Pankhursts
The Manchester Suffrage Society was one of several founded in Britain in 1867, when John Stuart Mill unsuccessfully put forward an amendment to the second Reform Bill – the amendment might have allowed women to vote.