#36 Enjoy Your Local Parks, scrapbook, 1984

Milton Keynes was designed with green space as a priority and today there are about 5000 acres of parkland, forest and waterways within the city’s limits. It is hardly surprising that in 1984 the Milton Keynes Development Corporation ran a summer programme of events to promote these parks to its new and growing population. Document …

#35 Register of Electors for Hanslope, 1918

This is a page from the 1918 Register of Electors, listing residents of Hanslope who were eligible to vote in Parliamentary and Local Government elections. The significance of this document lies in the names of the women listed. The Representation of the People Act 1918 extended for the first time the franchise, wholesale to women. …