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Hace 1 día · Elizabeth Bell (1862–1934) – first woman to practice medicine in Ulster, WPSU militant. Mary Bell (1885–1943) – first Scottish women magistrate. Sarah Benett (1850–1924) – Treasurer of the WFL and suffragette. Ethel Bentham (1861–1931) – doctor, politician, member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.
Hace 6 días · Role in women's suffrage. Lydia Becker banner designed by Mary Lowndes (died 1929) In autumn 1866 Becker attended the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Social Science, where she was excited by a paper from Barbara Bodichon entitled "Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women".
Hace 1 día · The pop musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, based on Kate Pankhurst's book of the same name, officially opens at London's The Other Palace July 25 following previews that began July 20.. Directed by Amy Hodge, the limited engagement continues through September 8. The musical, which debuted in the U.K. in 2021, has enjoyed three nationwide tours, a summer at Theatre Royal ...
Hace 1 día · For, although caring for Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the Women’s and Social Union, both during and after the suffragette campaign in Edwardian Britain, Nurse Pine had never been imprisoned and on hunger strike, the usual qualification for receiving a ‘suffragette medal’, and all effects held by the British College of Nurses were dispersed when it closed in 1956.
Hace 3 días · Author Guest Post: Norman Ridley. The Suffragette Movement and Fascism. The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) was set up in Manchester as an offshoot of the Independent labour Party by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 and became known as the Suffragette Movement three years later. This movement has become renowned for trailblazing in ...
Hace 1 día · Six centuries later, the Stone of Destiny — which was also damaged during a suffragette bombing in 1914 — was stolen out of Westminster Abbey by four Scottish Nationalist students. On Dec. 24, 1950, they broke into the church, dragged the stone across the floor, and vanished into the night with the celebrated Scottish relic in the trunk of their car.
Hace 4 días · A digital archive on the many ways in which feminists and suffragettes have historically been depicted in a poor light to further patriarchal propaganda.
