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Lock-Down Research: The Sitting Room, 7 Owen’s Row, Islington, 1855
Drawing, Sitting Room, 7 Owen’s Row, Islington; Richard Parminter Cuff (British, 1819 – 1883); brush and watercolour and gray wash over graphite; 2007-27-57. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum....
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Lock-Down Research: From Owen’s Row To Van Diemen’s Land: A Sad Story
The New River running beside Sadler’s Wells, 1792. Owen’s Row can be seen in the background – at the right-hand side. The grating at this side of the St John’s Road bridge is visible. It was against...
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Lock-Down Research: Winifred Hartley and ‘Housewives’ Choice’
‘Housewives’ Choice’ I bought this painting about 30 years ago – on an impulse – from a pavement stall in Islington’s Camden Passage market. It hangs in the hallway and I’ve passed it umpteen times a...
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Lock-Down Reviews: The Lives And Work Of Two Garrett Cousins: ‘Endell Street’...
Serendipitously, lock-down has given me the opportunity of making closer acquaintance with two cousins, products of that ever-interesting family – the Garretts. Louisa Garrett Anderson and Margery...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: VE Day 1945
Kate as writer – at home in Berghers HIll Kate Frye (or, rather Mrs Kate Collins), one-time actress and suffragist activist – and an excellent diarist – spent the Second World War at her home, ‘Hill...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: A Talk on Fanny Wilkinson
In January 2020 I gave a talk on Fanny Wilkinson, Britain’s first professional woman landscape gardener, to FOLAR (Friends of the Landscape Archive at Reading Unviersity). The talk is now available to...
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Lock-Down Research: The Case Of The Mysterious Suffrage Banner
I find it so satisfying when I am able to bring a photograph such as this to life. I acquired it two years ago but have not yet catalogued it because I could identify neither the banner nor the...
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Lock-Down Research: A Hull Mystery. What Do You Think You Are Seeing Here?
I have had this postcard in stock for about 20 years but, because I couldn’t identify either the women or the occasion, I have never catalogued it. Now, however, ‘Lock-Down’ has given me plenty of...
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Collecting Suffrage: The Church League For Women’s Suffrage Paper
The paper of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage was published monthly from January 1912. This is the issue for 9 September 1912. Issues of the paper are scarce and this one is in good condition...
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Collecting Suffrage: ‘Punch’ Cartoon, 21 October 1908
Punch cartoon, 21 October, 1908. Two burglars on their way to ‘suburban night-work’ watch a line of policemen marching the opposite way, into Town, to deal with the Votes for Women demonstration...
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Collecting Suffrage: Women’s Social And Political Union Brooch
A silver and enamel Women’s Social and Political Union brooch. It was Sold to raise funds for the WSPU and was made by Toye and Co of Clerkenwell Road, London, the firm that made the WSPU’s...
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Collecting Suffrage: Photographs Of The Equal Rights Rally, 3 July 1926
Two snapshots – taken at the rally by John Collins, Kate Frye’s husband. Here’s an excerpt from Kate’s diary entry for the day, as reproduced in Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s suffrage...
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Collecting Suffrage: ‘Punch’ Cartoon, 17 January 1906
Punch cartoon from the issue for 17 January 1906. ‘The Shrieking Sister’. The Sensible Woman (with her fur stole around her neck) addresses the dishevelled ‘suffragette’ (with a ‘Female Suffrage’...
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Collecting Suffrage: The Women’s Guild Of Empire
The Women’s Guild of Empire organised a demonstration at a critical time just before the General Strike in April 1926. Here we see Flora Drummond supervising the making of the banners that were to be...
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Collecting Suffrage: The Holloway Prison Brooch
The Holloway Prison brooch was designed by Sylvia Pankhurst and awarded to members of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) who had been imprisoned. It was first mentioned in the WSPU paper,...
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Women And The First World War: Munition Workers
Munition workers – mainly women -pose for the photographer. They are wearing their caps and the triangular-shaped munition workers badge can be seen pinned to many of the overall dresses. Young men...
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Collecting Suffrage: 1907 Programme For ‘Votes for Women’, Play By Elizabeth...
4-page programme for one of the 8 matinée performances of this so-popular play, staged in April and May 1907 at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, under the joint management of John Vedrenne...
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Collecting Suffrage: Questions To Lloyd George Asked By The Women’s Social...
A leaflet on which the WSPU set out eleven questions concerning Lloyd George’s behaviour in introducing a Government measure for Manhood Suffrage in 1913. Among the many other pertinent questions:...
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Something A Little Different: Furrowed Middlebrow Books: Summer 2020
It has been my pleasure to write forewords to a few of the novels reissued in August 2020 by Dean Street Press under their ‘Furrowed Middlebrow’ imprint. The theme this summer is ‘The Village’. A major...
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Collecting Suffrage: Photograph Of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst c 1907
This photograph of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst probably dates from c 1907, taken at her desk in Clement’s Inn, headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political Union. The photograph comes from the...
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