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Suffrage Stories: The WSPU Illuminated Address. Is This Sylvia Pankhurst’s...
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100 Years Of The Women’s Library: one-day conference, 14 January 2026
To mark the centenary of the coming into being of the treasure that is now the Women’s Library, the Friends of the Women’s Library are holding a free one-day conference on 14 January. The venue is...
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‘Votes for Women: Everywhere – 1866-1928’– an Online talk for the British...
I will be giving an online talk this evening (Wednesday 8 October) at 7pm for the British Association of Local Historians – offering ideas about how to discover the history of the women’s suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: The Mystery of Nurse Pine’s Medal – Solved
Nurse Pine’s Medal ‘For Duty’ sold at auction on 26 April 2024 Very nearly 8 years ago – on 26 May 2016 – I published a post titled The Mystery of Nurse Pine’s Medal. I knew that Nurse Catherine Pine,...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: A Talk For International Women’s Day
For the Pascal Theatre Company I am giving a talk on 8 March: Gower Street’s ‘Enterprising Women’:transforming the home, the land, and politics, 1875-1928 The event is free and already fully booked –...
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Suffrage Stories: An English Heritage ‘Blue Plaque’ For The Women’s Freedom...
Photo courtesy of English Heritage On 19 September 2023, together with members of the Feminist Society of Ibstock Place School, I unveiled the 1000th English Heritage Blue Plaque. It commemorates the...
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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: The Evolution Of The Hunger-Strike Medal
Here we see Emily Wilding Davison, one of the most famous suffragettes, wearing her Hunger Strike Medal c. 1912. Now, well over a century later, these medals are a familiar sight, appearing...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: Annie Swynnerton: New Revelations
Millicent Garrett Fawcett by Annie Swynnerton. (Courtesy of The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art) Excellent News: Millicent Fawcett is entering Parliament. A portrait of Millicent Garrett...
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Suffrage Stories: Unveiling A Plaque to Rhoda And Agnes Garrett
Here we see Rhoda Garrett, cousin to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Agnes Garrett, speaking at an important women’s suffrage meeting in 1872. She was the suffrage movement’s...
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Suffrage Stories: Deeds And Words: Suffrage And The London Library
This is a text of a talk I gave at a London Library event in October 2022 The title of this event – ‘Deeds and Words’ – is a play on ‘Deeds Not Words’ – the battle cry of the suffragettes in the...
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Suffrage Stories and The Garretts and their Circle: Millicent Garrett...
Here is a link to the recording of the Zoom Book Launch of Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings. My co-editor, Prof Melissa Terras, and I discuss, in some detail, Millicent Fawcett’s life,...
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Suffrage Stories: Suffrage in South Devon – Watch My Zoom Talk
Mrs Pankhurst on the Majestic as she sailed into Plymouth on 4 December 1913 – just before the police arrived to arrest her. With her are the American journalist, her ghostwriter, Rheta Childe Dorr,...
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Suffrage Stories: Suffrage In South Devon – Zoom Talk
‘Plymouth is so very backward that what we have gained represents a very real advance’: the ‘Votes for Women’ campaign in South Devon in the 19th and 20th centuries is the title of a Zoom talk I am...
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‘Collecting The Suffragettes’: A Fully-Illustrated Video Talk
If you are interested in discovering something about the wide range of objects produced during the course of the women’s suffrage campaign in the 19th and early 20th centuries, you may like to view a...
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Suffrage Stories: Suffragettes And Their Dress
The apotheosis of suffragette dress The term ‘suffragette’ was invented in 1906 by the Daily Mail, as a belittling epithet, and was then adopted as a badge of honour by the women it sought to demean....
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Suffrage Stories: Murder, Suicide, and Dancing: Or What Might Have Brought...
60 (on the right) and 62 Nelson Street, Manchester – The Pankhurst Centre I hope those acquainted with my website will also be aware of the existence of the Pankhurst Centre in Manchester. If so, you...
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Suffrage Stories: Aileen Preston: Mrs Pankhurst’s first ‘lady chauffeuse’
Vera Holme, Mrs Pankhurst’s subsequent chauffeur, is behind the wheel in this photograph. But I think this is the car in which Aileen Preston drove Mrs Pankhurst in 1911 Aileen Chevallier Preston was...
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Suffrage Walks
If you are interested in taking either a real or a virtual London ‘Suffragette Walk’, particularly around the Holborn/Strand area, you might find the following posts of interest. Lincoln’s Inn House...
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Suffrage Stories: Is This Edith Craig’s Banner For The Catholic Women’s...
I was very interested to see this image when it appeared on an internet site the other day because I’m not sure I’ve ever before seen a banner of the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society. The Catholic...
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Suffrage Stories: Unveiling A Plaque to Rhoda And Agnes Garrett
Here we see Rhoda Garrett, cousin to Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Agnes Garrett, speaking at an important women’s suffrage meeting in 1872. She was the suffrage movement’s...
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