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Suffrage Stories: Hidden From History? – Mrs Augustine Watkins
On 4 April 2016 I gave a talk in the House of Commons at the Regional Suffrage Conference – one of the activities organised by Vote100 in the lead up to the 100th anniversary of (partial) women’s...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Endless Endeavours’: From The 1866 Women’s Suffrage...
Last year I was delighted when The Women’s Library@LSE asked if I would help to shape an exhibition planned to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the presentation of the first women’s suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Suffragette Statues: Or Why Does The Present Take No...
Yesterday I was intrigued to notice from Twitter that someone called Caroline Criado-Perez has launched a petition to put a statue of a suffragette in Parliament Square. Fair enough. Even though there...
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Suffrage Stories: The Mystery of Nurse Pine’s Medal
While undertaking some research for a talk I gave a couple of weeks ago at the Royal College of Nursing I encountered an intriguing mystery. What happened to Nurse Pine’s ‘suffragette medal’. Nurse...
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Suffrage Stories: Woman’s Hour Discussion: Who Won The Vote For Women –...
Millicent Fawcett c 1912 In the week that marked the 150th anniversary of the presentation of the first women’s suffrage petition, Woman’s Hour invited June Purvis and me to ‘debate’ the issue of...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 192
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 192 Item 107 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-19 Suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Endless Endeavours’– Talks About Suffrage At LSE Today
With Ann Dingsdale and Jane Grant I shall be talking suffrage at LSE today – entry free, unticketed – just come along – see here for details. Last year I was delighted when The Women’s Library@LSE...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Endless Endeavours’– Podcast Of Talks At LSE, 21 June 2016
Here is the podcast of the ‘Endless Endeavours’ talks that Ann Dingsdale, Jane Grant and I gave at LSE on 21 June 2016 Last year I was delighted when The Women’s Library@LSE asked if I would help to...
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Suffrage Stories: Fawcett Society Wreath-Laying Service for Millicent Garrett...
Each year on 2 July the Fawcett Society holds a short service and lays a red, white, and green wreath in remembrance of Millicent Fawcett in St George’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. For it is in this...
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Suffrage Stories/Kate Frye’s Diary: Farewell to Kate Parry Frye: Diarist,...
The entry in Kate’s diary for ‘Black Friday’ – the suffrage ‘battle’ in Parliament Square on 18 November 1910. Today is the day that I part company with Kate Frye – at least in a physical sense....
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Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: Rousing Rye
Although I am no longer the guardian of Kate’s diaries, I am still able walk in her footsteps. The hottest day of the year earlier this week found me in Rye in Sussex. I was recovering from a short,...
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Suffrage Stories: Hidden From History? – Mrs Augustine Watkins
On 4 April 2016 I gave a talk in the House of Commons at the Regional Suffrage Conference – one of the activities organised by Vote100 in the lead up to the 100th anniversary of (partial) women’s...
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The Fallen Woman: A Short Film Based On A Foundling Museum Exhibition
Just before Christmas last year I visited an excellent exhibition – ‘The Fallen Woman’ – at the Foundling Museum in Coram Fields in Bloomsbury. I have now been alerted to a short film based on the...
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Something A Little Different: Furrowed Middlebrow Books
Back in the summer I was delighted to receive a commission from a small reprint publisher, the Dean Street Press, to write an introduction to three novels by Rachel Ferguson that they were planning to...
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Suffrage Stories: Portcullis House, Millicent Fawcett And The 19th-c Suffrage...
Those of you who might happen to be passing through the Atrium of Parliament’s Portcullis House between now and early November can view a compact display that I have curated there. The subject is...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 193
Item 136 in the Catalogue – a Women’s Social and Political Union badge My new catalogue is now ready for viewing. Click on the link below to open up the Catalogue as a PDF file. Catalogue 193 – Books...
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A Happy New Year: Introducing ‘Art and Suffrage: a biographical dictionary of...
A Very Happy New Year To All My Readers This image (courtesy of The Women’s Library@LSE) will appear, among 100 or so others, in my new book, Art and Suffrage: a biographical dictionary of suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Who Did The Flowers?: Material Culture And Emily Wilding...
Emily Wilding Davison Funeral Procession I expect most of my readers will be familiar with pictures such as this, showing Emily Wilding Davison’s flower-laden hearse, accompanied by WSPU members...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 194
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 194 Item #146 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-16 Suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Sussex Violets And ‘Votes For Women’
One of the businesses that over a number of years advertised very regularly in Votes for Women, the newspaper of the Women’s Social and Political Union, was that of the Violet Nurseries run by ‘The...
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