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Collecting Suffrage: Photograph of Mrs Fawcett, 1890
Today I offer you a studio photograph of Millicent Garrett Fawcett by W & D Downey. Published by Cassell & Co, 1890. She was 43 years old and had already been a leading light of the women’s...
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Lock-Down Research: ‘Elena Shayne’, The Intriguing Author Of ‘Everyday’
Elena Shayne in her dancing years, With her husband, Paul Barel (image courtesy of Louise Baghurst) Even though ‘lockdown’ has officially been eased, my physical freedom is not as it was but, as...
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Collecting Suffrage: Portrait Postcard Of Christabel Pankhurst, c. 1908
Head and shoulders photographic portrait of Christabel Pankhurst, probably dating from c. 1908. She is wearing a rather attractive loose, square-necked dress, with her hair up in her characteristic...
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Collecting Suffrage: This Is The House That Man Built
And this is the Minister weary and worn/Who treated the Suffragette with scorn,/Who wanted a Vote, and (a saying to quote),/ Dared him to tread on the tail of the coat/Of the bold Suffragette...
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Collecting Suffrage: Mrs Charlotte Despard Photographed by Christina Broom
A lovely photograph of Mrs Charlotte Despard, leader of the Women’s Freedom League. It was taken on a rooftop, possibly at the time of the WFL’s White, Gold and Green Fair in 1909. The photographer...
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Collecting Suffrage: Photograph Of Cicely Hamilton By Lena Connell For The...
Photograph of a luminous Cicely Hamilton, writer, actor and suffrage activist, taken by Lena Connell, the renowned photographer. The close-up photograph is mounted on stiff card, which carries the...
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Collecting Suffrage: Anna Munro, Organizer For The Scottish Council Of The...
Full-length portrait photograph of Anna Munro (1881-1962) Scottish organiser for the Women’s Freedom League. The address is that of the WFL Scottish headquarters. Anna Munro had joined the WSPU in...
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Collecting Suffrage: Mrs Amy Sanderson, Scottish Speaker For The Women’s...
Mrs Amy Sanderson, born in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, joined the Women’s Social and Political Union in 1906 and took part in the deputation in February 1907 from the first Women’s Parliament in Caxton...
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Collecting Suffrage: Gladice Keevil Photographed by Lena Connell
Portrait photograph of Miss Gladice Keevil, The ‘National Women’s Social and Political Union, 4 Clement’s Inn, WC’. The photographer was Lena Connell, who, in an interview in the Women’s Freedom...
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Collecting Suffrage: The ‘Census Resisted’ Badge
NO VOTE – NO CENSUS – CENSUS RESISTED BADGE Metal badge worn by suffragettes who boycotted the April 1911 census. Around the outside of the badge is ‘No Vote – No Census – Census Resisted and in the...
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Collecting Suffrage: Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy, The Need Of The Hour
Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833-1918) is one of my heroes of the women’s suffrage movement. She began campaigning in the north of England in the mid-1860s and proved to be one of the movement’s most...
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First World War: My Family’s First World War Story
My mother, Christmas 1914. On the reverse of this postcard is written ‘With Best Wishes for a Merry Xmas From Meg, Tom and the ‘Wee Un’. On 4 August 1914 my mother, Margaret Wallace, was not quite ten...
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Lockdown Research: Switching The Lens – And Discovering Myra Jane Monk
I recently noticed that the London Metropolitan Archives has launched a new database – Switching the Lens – Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage, 1561 to...
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Books And Ephemera By And About Women For Sale: Catalogue 203
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 203 See # 78 Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com This is my second catalogue of 2020, both, quite coincidentally, produced...
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Lockdown Research: Switching The Lens – And Discovering Eliza Catherine Herbert
I recently noticed that the London Metropolitan Archives has launched a new database – Switching the Lens – Rediscovering Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous Heritage, 1561 to...
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Lockdown Research: Stella Spencer, Suffragette: From Holloway To Montevideo
Tombstone of Stella Lavinia Spencer in the British Cemetery, Montevideo, Uruguay(photo courtesy David Rennie) The epitaph reads: In Loving Memory of my dear wife STELLA LAVINIA SPENCER born in England...
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Lockdown Research: Who Unfurled The Manchester ‘First In The Fight’ WSPU Banner?
Manchester WSPU Banner,, c. 1908 A reader of this blog has asked me to confirm who was the ‘Mrs Rachel Scott’ who unfurled the ‘First in the Fight’ Manchester WSPU banner in 1908. You will remember...
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Lockdown Research: Switching The Lens – And Discovering Elizabeth Purves
Baptism of Elizabeth Purves at St Giles, Cripplegate, on 28 August 1807. I recently noticed that the London Metropolitan Archives has launched a new database – Switching the Lens – Rediscovering...
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Suffrage Walks
If you are interested in taking either a real or a virtual London ‘Suffragette Walk’, particularly around the Holborn/Strand area, you might find the following posts of interest. Lincoln’s Inn House...
View ArticleLockdown Research: Switching the Lens:Beyond Elizabeth Purves
In my previous post, ‘Discovering Elizabeth Purves’, I described something of the life of the Anglo-Indian daughter of Richardson Purves, who, c. 1806, having made his fortune in India, had brought...
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