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Suffrage Stories: The Women’s Freedom League Toy Factory At Hackney, 1915
We are familiar with the toy factory opened during the First World War by Sylvia Pankhurst’s East London Federation of Suffragettes at Bow in London’s East End, but how many of us know that another...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Talk at Wooburn Festival, 24 September 2014
Tomorrow – 24 September – I shall be presenting Kate Frye to the Wooburn Festival. I shall be talking about her life – from the age of Victoria to that of Elizabeth – in Bourne End and Berghers Hill –...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 186
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 186 Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Index to Catalogue Non-fiction: Items 1-183 Biography: Items 184-260 Ephemera: Items 261-339 Postcards:...
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Suffrage Stories: Mrs Pankhurst’s Headstone – And Its Sculptor
Brompton Cemetery – with Mrs Pankhurst’s headstone Emmeline Pankhurst died, at the age of 69, in a Wimpole Street nursing home on 14 June 1928. On 18 June her funeral service was held in St John’s,...
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Suffrage Stories: Kitty Marion, Arson, A Route Taken – And A Touch Of Solipsism
On Sunday 2 November the Radio 3 Sunday Feature told – very briefly – the story of Kitty Marion, music-hall artiste, suffragette, and arsonist. At the planning stage the producer was kind enough to...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Armistice 1918 And Remembrance Days 1928 and 1956
John Collins For the latter part of the First World War Kate Parry Collins (nee Frye) lived in a cottage in the tiny Buckinghamshire hamlet of Berghers Hill – on tenterhooks for news of her husband,...
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Women Artists: ‘Painting Days At School of Art Are Perfect Bliss’ (1892-1914)
I originally gave this paper at the Women’s History Network Conference, Southampton, September 2005 ‘Painting Days at School of Art are perfect bliss: the manuscript diary (1892-1914) of Sarah...
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Suffrage Stories/Women Artists: Emily Jane Harding Andrews
Many of you familiar with the propaganda produced by the British women’s suffrage campaign will recognise this image, which was printed by Weiners of Acton and published as a poster by the Artists’...
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Suffrage Stories: An Army Of Banners – Designed For The NUWSS Suffrage...
An Army of Banners In June 2008 I was invited by The Women’s Library to give a talk on suffrage banners to mark the 100th anniversary of the first of a new style of spectacular processions staged by...
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Suffrage Stories/Women Artists: Caroline Watts And the ‘Bugler Girl’
This image of the ‘Bugler Girl’- or ‘Clarion Girl’ – had a resonance for the suffrage campaign on both sides of the Atlantic. The design was originally used on a poster to advertise the NUWSS...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Christmas 1914: 23 December
Kate is working at the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage office in Knightsbridge, superintending the workroom that the society had set up to give employment to women dressmakers thrown...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Christmas 1914: 24 December 1914
Kate is beginning her Christmas holiday. ‘Young Bernard Shaw’ was the son of her cousin, Agnes Shaw (née Gilbey) Shaw. Almost exactly a year later another of Agnes’s sons, Arthur, was killed in...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Christmas 1914: 25 December
Kate is spending Christmas with her mother and sister in digs at 58 Portland Road, Hove. This is their first Christmas since the death of Kate’s father, Frederick Frye, and very different from the...
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Suffrage Stories/Suffrage Walks: The Suffragette Fellowship Memorial,...
How many of you know – and have been to look at – this Memorial? It is sited in Christchurch Gardens, a paved turning running from Victoria Street, Westminster, towards Caxton Hall and was commissioned...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Kate’s Wedding Day – 100 Years Ago Today – 9 January 1915
One of the pages from her diary in which Kate describes her wedding day. It was she who attached the photographs After an engagement of eleven years Kate Frye and John Collins are at last about to be...
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Mariana Starke: Travels in Europe 1791-1794
At the end of my last ‘Mariana Starke’ post I left Mariana, her mother, father and her sister, Louisa, in the winter of 1791 journeying south through Europe. On 3 December Mrs Crespigny, Mariana’s...
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Collecting Suffrage: ‘Votes For Women’ Hooks And Eyes
In over 30 years spent hunting for and selling objects related to the women’s suffrage campaign, this little box is the only example I have ever found of ‘Votes for Women’ Hooks and Eyes. Although I...
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Suffrage Stories: The Mysterious Mrs Alice Green, Emily Wilding Davison And...
In the Introduction to my The Women’s Suffrage Movement: a reference guide I wrote: ‘Although women may be “hidden from history” they are not, on the whole, hidden from the Registrar of Births,...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: The Death Of Queen Victoria: 22 January 1901
Kate, who had just celebrated her 23rd birthday, is living with her family in middle-class comfort at 25 Arundel Gardens, north Kensington. Tuesday January 22nd 1901 The Queen is Dead. We heard the...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Queen Victoria’s Funeral: 2 February 1901
Kate and her family were never ones to miss an ‘Occasion’ and as occasions went few were more important in the nation’s eyes than the funeral of Queen Victoria. Kate went by tube with her mother and...
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