At University of Glasgow Library and parked my car near Kelvingrove Park.
Frustrated and couldn't find what I wanted.
Sauntered back to the car which had collected some large fading oak leaves from the big tree under which I'd parked it.
Noticed a wee plaque at the base of the tree and went over to read it.
Planted on 20 April 1918 by the Women Suffragette Movements in honour of their being granted the vote.
Not sure why but I decided one of those oak leaves, from this 100 year old oak tree, should find its way into one of my books for a while.
100 years is a long time, even for a tree. It is though, a magnificent tree.
But it's astonishingly recent in the history of discrimination – just 100 years ago women were largely excluded from political decision-making.
The photo below is of women protesting outside Duke Street prison in Glasgow. The City had a Women's Socialist and Political Union (WSPU), just one of the organisations far too easily forgotten, but made up of women of courage, conviction and passionate commitment to social justice and political equality. My oak leaf honours them!
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