Suffragists

Hidden Heroines: The Forgotten Suffragettes, Maggie Andrews and Janis Lomas (Robert Hale, 2018)
Hidden Heroines: The Forgotten Suffragettes is a collection of short biographies of forty-eight women who were involved in the struggle for the women’s franchise. The book was published in 2018, …
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The House on Hunter Street, David Ebsworth (SilverWood Books, 2022)
I was particularly delighted to receive my copy of The House on Hunter Street from David Ebsworth because I’d seen an early draft of the novel and we’d discussed aspects …
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Winifred Coombe Tennant and Whittinghame
Back in 2016 when I first started researching the life of Welsh suffragist Winifred Coombe Tennant (1874-1956) I visited the West Glamorgan archives in Swansea to look at the Coombe …
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Spotlight on…Mabel Harriette Cross, Suffragist
Usually referred to as Mrs W C H Cross, she was born Mabel Harriette Duncan in Bristol in 1872. Her mother was Adelaide, and her father, Edward Duncan, was a …
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‘Those wanton imbecile women’: the Gatty Laboratory and the Militant Suffragettes
This article is based on research and conversations with Edward Warington Shann’s daughter, Hebe Welbourn. Quotations by Edward Warington Shann are from his letter to his mother dated 22 June …
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“Cheap and easy railway traffic”: Suffragettes and the Railways, Part 1
In February 1912 the Bristol Liberal MP Charles E H Hobhouse addressed a meeting of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage in the city’s Colston Hall (now the Bristol …
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Goo Goo Eyes: Advertising and the Suffragettes
In The Road to Representation: Essays on the Women’s Suffrage Campaign, I wrote a piece about how businesses made money from the suffrage campaign (Making Money From the Suffragettes). In …
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It’s not just the Suffragettes! A Blue Plaque for Bristol’s non-militant suffrage campaigners
A Blue Plaque to the Bristol and West of England Women’s Suffrage Society will be unveiled on 15 December 2018. Although I’ve written about the militant suffragettes, why was it …
Read MoreWhat’s in a name?: Suffragettes and Suffragists
I’ve been asked so often what the difference was between a suffragette and a suffragist that I usually give a brief explanation in my talks to the effect that before …
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