Books and Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 197
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 197 Item #23A Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-8 Suffrage...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: Women’s History Review – Women’s Suffrage Centennial...
If you are one of my readers interested in the history of the women’s suffrage movement, you will be pleased to know that, in this centennial year, Women’s History Review is allowing free access to a...
View ArticleThe Garretts And Their Circle: Fanny Wilkinson And Middlethorpe Hall
Middlethorpe Hall, York As part of Bloom! – a festival celebrating horticulture and flowers in York – I was invited give a talk yesterday about Fanny Wilkinson, Britain’s first professional woman...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: Ella And Geraldine Stevenson, Suffragette Sisters
Place is important to me and sometimes my attention is caught by an incident occurring somewhere I’ve known well. And so it was that four years ago I noticed that a suffragette ‘outrage’ had taken...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The Hodgson Sisters And Their Suffrage Souvenirs
My new catalogue – No 198 – will contain a large collection of suffrage ephemera kept all their lives by three sisters, Edith Lizzie (1881-1958), Florence Emily (1882-1967), and Grace Margaret...
View ArticleBooks and Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 198
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 198 WFL Dolly Bag Item #83 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-6...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: Save Mrs Pankhurst’s Statue
A planning application has been made to Westminster Council to dismantle this statue of Mrs Pankhurst – which stands as close as possible to the Houses of Parliament. The plan is to banish this statue...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson
One of the many new books I have enjoyed in this suffrage centenary year is The Prison Diary of Annie Cobden-Sanderson, edited by Dr Marianne Tidcombe. This postcard is for sale – item 153 in my...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: Mrs Pankhurst’s Statue – UPDATE 22 October 2018
This statue of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst, erected by her admiring and loving followers, will remain THE memorial to her at Westminster. I reported on 15 September the very welcome news that, as a result...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: ‘Woman And Her Sphere’ At Buckingham Palace
Yesterday was surreal – as I found myself at Buckingham Palace to receive an OBE for ‘Services to Education – in particular for promoting knowledge of the women’s suffrage movement’. This was an...
View ArticleKate Frye’s Diary: Armistice Day 1918
Kate Frye had worked as an organiser for the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage from 1911 until the summer of 1915. In January 1915 she had married her long-time fiancé, John Collins, an...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Mary...
Today, 21 November 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of...
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Margery...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Winifred...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Violet...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918:...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Norah...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Alison...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Emmeline...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
View ArticleSuffrage Stories: The First Women General Election Candidates, 1918: Janet...
21 November 2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Parliament(Qualification of Women) Act, by which women were for the first time able to stand for election as members of Parliament....
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