Vera Wentworth

Don’t call them Lympne-pets: the suffragettes at Lympne Castle
On Sunday 5 September 1909, suffragettes Vera Wentworth, Elsie Howey and Jessie Kenney assaulted prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith when he was staying at Lympne Castle in Kent. Lympne (pronounced …
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Rebellion Against Tyrants: Suffragette Graffiti in Holloway Prison
The closure of Holloway Prison in July 2016 prompted many people to remember some of the women imprisoned there since it opened in 1852, amongst them militant suffragettes. Some of …
Read More‘The Suffragettes were in the organ’
I’ve been so busy preparing The Bristol Suffragettes for publication (expected in May) that I haven’t had a chance to write a blog for ages. With publication date drawing near, …
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