Norfolk Women: From Abolition to the Vote.

The Abolition Campaign to end slavery in the British Empire is said to have been the world's first successful human rights campaign. Norfolk women including the radical Elizabeth Fry, Amelia Opie and Harriet Martineau played a vital role in the campaign although they themselves lacked even the right to vote.

The determined women campaigners employed and developed strategies despite much opposition even from Wilberforce himself. They then used these strategies in the suffrage campaign which was to follow - another great human rights struggle.

The first petition to Parliament asking for votes for women was presented to the House of Commons on 3 August 1832. The Abolition of Slavery Act was passed on 1 Aug 1833.

Alison Dow will bring alive the stories of these women and many others who, for too long, have gone unrecognised.