The Women’s Suffrage campaigner Rosa May Billinghurst was born into a middle class family in Lewisham in 1875.  At five months old, she contracted an illness – almost certainly polio – which left her completely paralysed.   Despite some recovery, she was left paraplegic, relying on calipers and crutches to walk, and usually resorting to a… Read More from May Billinghurst