Portal:United Kingdom/Did you know/October 2008
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- ...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?