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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: Countdown To 12 October And Release Of...
To celebrate the release on 12 October of the film ‘Suffragette’ (for which I was an historical consultant) I will post each day an image of a suffrage item that has passed through my hands. For my...
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Suffrage Stories/Collecting Suffrage: Countdown To 12 October And Release Of...
To celebrate the release on 12 October of the film ‘Suffragette’ (for which I was an historical consultant) I will post each day an image of a suffrage item that has passed through my hands. For my...
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Suffrage Stories: My Experience Of Watching The Filming of A Scene From...
After all that counting down – the day has arrived when all in the UK can see ‘Suffragette’. See here to find where it is showing in a cinema near you. I’m one of four people who appears at the end of...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Make More Noise’: Suffrage Silents
Still from ‘Make More Noise’ On Sunday I went along to the BFI to see Make More Noise: Suffragettes in Silent Film. This collection of short films – both newsreels and comic features – has been...
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Suffrage Stories: Shooting Suffrage: Films That Suffrage Activists Would Have...
This post is based on a talk I gave – under the title ‘Shooting Suffrage’- at the Women’s Library on 13 October 2005 – the hundredth anniversary of the first militant act carried out by suffragettes....
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Suffragette’– The Making Of The Film: A Discussion Hosted...
On 5 November I took part in a discussion with director, Sarah Gavron, and producer, Faye Ward, about the making of the film Suffragette.. The event was hosted by the Women’s Library@LSE – and...
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Suffrage Stories: ‘Lloyd George’s War’ on BBC Wales
I recorded a brief interview with Dan Snow about Lloyd George, suffrage, and women war workers for this programme. Lloyd George’s War comes to BBC Radio Wales First World War Prime Minister David...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 190
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 190 Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Item 85 Index to Catalogue Suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: British Liberalism on Radio 4: Millicent Fawcett And Votes...
You can listen here as Anne McElvoy and I recreate the NUWSS’s February 1907 ‘Mud March’ in an episode of the BBC Radio 4 series ‘British Liberalism: The Grand Tour’. From the BBC website: Millicent...
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Kate Frye’s Diary: Christmas 1897 – A True Victorian Christmas
By the summer of 1897 alterations had been made to The Plat, the house leased by Frederick Frye on the banks of the river Thames at Bourne End. It was substantially expanded, acquiring two...
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Mariana Starke: ‘Buy A Copy’: recently discovered letters of the 19th century...
Last year – 2015 – was such a ‘suffragette year’ that my various other interests were sadly overlooked. Now, at the very beginning of 2016, I would like to make amends and bring once more to the fore...
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The Garretts And Their Circle: A Talk At The Royal Society of Medicine To...
On 28 September 1865 Elizabeth Garrett succeded in qualifying as a doctor and as such is hailed as the first woman in Britain to do so. That is, she was first woman qua woman (ie not, as Miranda Barry,...
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The Garretts And Their Circle/Suffrage Stories: Millicent Fawcett And Salisbury
When we booked to stay for a few days at a Landmark Trust apartment (see here) at the top of a venerable building in The Close in Salisbury I was relishing a brief immersion in the world of Trollope...
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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 191
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 191 #48 Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Index to Catalogue Suffrage Non-fiction: Items 1-21 Suffrage Biography: Items 22-28 Suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Hidden From History? Sybil Campion
Yesterday (4 April 2016) in the House of Commons I gave a talk at the Regional Suffrage Conference – one of the activities organised by Vote100 in the lead up to the 100th anniversary of (partial)...
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Suffrage Stories: Hidden From History? – Susan Cunnington
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: Hidden From History? – Yevonde Cumbers
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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Books And Ephemera For Sale: Catalogue 190
Woman and her Sphere Catalogue 190 Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk Item 85 Index to Catalogue Suffrage...
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Suffrage Stories: Hidden From History? – Miss S.A. Turle
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: Hidden From History? – Florence And Beatrice Sotheran
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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