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The hammer-wielding suffragettes who attacked 13 paintings in Manchester Art Gallery 108 years ago today

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Sign up for our What's On newsletter - for all the latest whether you're staying in or heading out and about At around 4.30am on the night of February 19, 1913, a loud bang was heard coming from Pinfold Manor in Walton on the Hill, Surrey.

Someone had planted two bombs in the property, which was under construction as a summer home for the then-chancellor, later Prime Minister, Manchester-born David Lloyd George.

The next day, suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst took to the stage at an event in Cardiff and claimed responsibility for the incident.

The campaigner for women's right to vote told crowds: "The authorities need not look for the women who have done what they did last night, I accept responsibility for it." Almost a week later,

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