Illuminated initial 'Q' candle Bright was an outspoken advocate

Bright was an outspoken advocate reform and peppered his numerous speeches with attacks on British aristocracy and the need for parliamentary reform

29th November 1963

he was also a prominent supporter of the suffragettes' campaign for votes for women

Circa 1954

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Illuminated initial 'Q' candle Bright was an outspoken advocateIlluminated initial 'Q', c1073. Beginning of Psalm 51, with decorated initial 'Q' and decorated borders, from a psalter originally produced in England, possibly New Minster, Winchester. Illustration from School of Illumination, Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part I, Hiberno Saxon and English to AD 1100, (British Museum, Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1914).