John Stuart Mill, influential philosopher and Liberal MP for Westminster, 1865-1868 was born 220 years ago today.
In 1866, Mill presented the first mass petition to the Commons in favour of women's suffrage, as @kathrynrix.bsky.social explores below.
A. Dingsdale, '"Generous and lofty sympathies": the Kensington Society, the 1866 women's suffrage petition and the development of mid-Victorian feminism'
