Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/October 2008

...that British activist Emmeline Pankhurst (pictured) once slapped a police officer so she would get arrested to raise awareness about the need for women's suffrage?
... that architect Stiff Leadbetter’s house Elvills was the first completely new house of the Georgian Gothic revival in England?
... that Reuben Noble-Lazarus became the youngest footballer to make an appearance in the Football League when he came on as a substitute in Barnsley's 3–0 defeat to Ipswich Town on 30 September 2008?
... that Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?

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