Yesterday some of us gathered at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park to  commemorate the NUWSS (National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies) and the women who marched from around England and Wales in July 1913. Culminating in a 50,000 strong gathering of women in Hyde Park on 26th July 1913, the NUWSS supporters were constitutional suffragists who walked from their communities to London to show the Government how many women wanted the right to vote.

Many many walks have been organised to honour the women. You can find out more on the Walk For Women website.

The week before I'd been to see a new play about the NUWSS pilgrimage. Written by Natalie Mc Grath and directed by Josie Sutcliffe, Oxygen has been performed along the route that the suffragists took from Lands End to London.