WSPU

“Cheap and easy railway traffic”: Suffragettes and the Railways, Part 2: The Battle to Free Mrs Pankhurst
In Part 1 of these three articles about how the rail network influenced the suffrage campaign, I looked at how trains were instrumental in facilitating suffrage campaigns, including militant activism, …
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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 …
Read MoreNo more pushing around of Mrs Pankhurst
When I was in London a few days ago I spent an enjoyable afternoon strolling around the Houses of Parliament and viewing the statues of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of …
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You Daughters of Freedom by Clare Wright
In my last blog, I looked at the question of the British press’s “boycott” of the suffragette movement. The piece was prompted by reading Clare Wright’s You Daughters of Freedom: …
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The Suffragettes and the Press Boycott
When Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney were sent to prison in 1905 after interrupting a Liberal politicians’ meeting in Manchester, one of the victories they claimed was that for the …
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Spotlight On…Mr and Mrs F W Rogers of Bristol
Frederick William Rogers (1859–1927), who ran a firm of Bristol stone masons, and Blanche Mary Rogers (1866–1951), were married at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol in 1889. They were supporters …
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Making Money From the Suffragettes
The suffragette campaign spearheaded by Mrs Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a time of heady excitement, courage, endurance and persistence. Women marched under banners with stirring slogans …
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