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1911 Census Boycotters
These British suffragettes and suffragists are known to have participated in the boycott of the 1911 United Kingdom census. The number of boycotters has been estimated to have been in the thousands, but was probably fewer than 100,000 in total. Notable women who participated in the boycott include: * Laura Ainsworth, 38 other women and one man sought to hide in Jezreel's Tower in Gillingham, Kent, but they were betrayed and still counted by census officials. * Rhoda Anstey: participated on behalf of the Anstey College of Physical Education, which she had founded in 1897 * Helen Archdale: hosted a mass census boycott party with Adela Pankhurst * Minnie Baldock * Inez Bensusan: member of the Actresses' Franchise League who performed during a mass evasion party * Rosa May Billinghurst * Mary Blathwayt * Nina Boyle * Georgina Brackenbury * Marie Brackenbury * Constance Bryer * Florence Canning * Joan Cather and her husband * Joseph Clayton * Annie Coultate * Ellen Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffragettes Boycotting 1911 Census In Manchester
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the ''Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom#Pressure groups, suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even reappropriation, adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Bryer
Constance Elizabeth Bryer (c. July 1870 – 12 July 1952) was a British classical violinist and campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed. Early life and family Constance Bryer was born in Islington in London in 1870, the eldest of seven children born to Thomas John Bryer (1844–1916), a bullion merchant, and Elizabeth Butler Bryer ( Chadwick; 1847–1937). In 1908, she was a violinist living in the family home at 49 Tufnell Park Road in London. Her brother, Gilbert William Bryer (1882–1919), served as a gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery during World War I and died of injuries sustained in service. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery. Suffrage activity Bryer joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and the Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS), abandoning her career as a musician to campaign for women's rights. She seem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trowbridge
Trowbridge ( ) is the county town of Wiltshire, England; situated on the River Biss in the west of the county, close to the border with Somerset. The town lies south-east of Bath, Somerset, Bath, south-west of Swindon and south-east of Bristol. The parish had a population of 37,169 in 2021. Long a market town, the Kennet and Avon canal to the north of Trowbridge played an instrumental part in the town's development, as it allowed coal to be transported from the Somerset Coalfield; this marked the advent of steam-powered manufacturing in woollen cloth mills. The town was the foremost centre of woollen cloth production in south west England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, by which time it held the nickname "The Manchester of the West". The parish encompasses the settlements of Longfield, Lower Studley, Upper Studley, Studley Green and Trowle Common. History Toponymy The origin of the name ''Trowbridge'' is uncertain; one source claims derivation from ''treow-bryc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Dove-Willcox
Lillian Dove-Willcox (1875–1963) was a British suffragette who was a member of Emmeline Pankhurst's personal bodyguard. Life Dove-Willcox was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1875. Her husband died in 1908. She was living in Bristol and attended the West of England branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The following year she was arrested at the House of Commons after trying to lobby on behalf of the Women's Social and Political Union on 29 June 1909. She was sentenced to a month in Holloway Prison and was released early after she went on hunger strike. She and Theresa Garnett were later convicted of assaulting a warder at Holloway. She again went on hunger strike to be released from a ten-day sentence. She returned to Bristol where she, the future policewoman Mary Allen and Annie Kenney were met at the station and a procession of supporters welcomed them. Dove-Willcox planting at tree at Eagle House Dove-Wilcox was invited to Eagle House at Batheaston in So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palace Of Westminster
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is located in London, England. It is commonly called the Houses of Parliament after the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two legislative chambers which occupy the building. The palace is one of the centres of political life in the United Kingdom; "Westminster" has become a metonym for the UK Parliament and the British Government, and the Westminster system of government commemorates the name of the palace. The Elizabeth Tower of the palace, nicknamed Big Ben, is a landmark of London and the United Kingdom in general. The palace has been a Grade I listed building since 1970 and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. The building was originally constructed in the eleventh century as a royal palace and was the primary residence of the kings of England until 1512, when a fire destroyed the royal apartments. The monarch moved to the adjacent Palace of Whitehall, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime minister. Other parliaments have also had a lower house called the "House of Commons". History and naming The House of Commons of England, House of Commons of the Kingdom of England evolved from an undivided parliament to serve as the voice of the tax-paying subjects of the Ceremonial counties of England, counties and the borough constituency, boroughs. Knight of the shire, Knights of the shire, elected from each county, were usually landowners, while the borough members were often from the merchant classes. These members represented subjects of the Crown who were not Lords Temporal or Spiritual, who themselves sat in the House of Lords. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Davison
Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause, she was arrested on nine occasions, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Epsom Derby, 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. Davison grew up in a middle-class family, and studied at Royal Holloway College, London, and St Hugh's College, Oxford, before taking jobs as a teacher and governess. She joined the WSPU in November 1906 and became an officer of the organisation and a chief steward during marches. She soon became known in the organisation for her militant action; her tactics included breaking windows, throwing stones, setting fire to postboxes, Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Dallas
Irene Margaret Dallas (1883–1971) was a suffragette activist, speaker and organiser who held leadership roles in the WSPU; she was arrested and imprisoned with a group who tried to gain access to 10 Downing Street. Life and activism Irene Margaret Dallas was born on 12 April 1883 in Yokohama, Japan, and had a sister Hilda (born 1878). In July 1908, Dallas donated sixteen shillings (eighty pence) for the £20,000 Fund (WSPU) recorded as “Miss Irene Dallas (Hyde Park Banner)”. In September 1908, Dallas regularly spoke to factory girls at meetings in Portland Square, Bristol; some also went to her meetings on the Downs, despite this being some distance from their dwellings. Being unable to afford badges, they wore home-made sashes in suffragette colours on which they had pencilled “votes for women”. The following week, it is reported that Dallas ‘won the hearts and converted the heads’ of the factory girls; her meetings took place in Portland Square again and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Dallas
Hilda Mary Dallas (1878–1958) was a British artist and a suffragette who designed suffrage posters and cards and took a leadership role for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). A pacifist, she raised funds from a cross-section of society, produced and designed set & costumes for the 1929 Royal Court Theatre, Court Theatre production of the Anti-war movement, anti-war satirical play ''The Rumour''. Early life and education Hilda Mary Dallas was born in what was then the Empire of Japan on 6 February 1878, as her father Charles Dallas was teaching English there. She had a sister Irene Dallas, Irene born in 1883, and either Hilda or the family returned to Britain before 1901/2, when Hilda Dallas became a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her works were exhibited with the Allied Artists Association and the Society of Women Artists. Dallas joined the Suffrage Atelier, a group of artists using visual art for supporting the women's suffrage movement. Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Crocker
Ellen Crocker (1872–1962) was an English suffragette. Life and activism Ellen Crocker (also known as Nelly or Nellie) was born in 1872 in Stogumber, Somerset. Her father was a doctor, and she had a sister, Emma Crocker. Her cousins were WSPU treasurer Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and Dorothy Pethick. Crocker joined the suffragette movement but left when her cousin Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and husband Frederick were expelled from the Women's Social and Political Union by the Pankhurts. In 1906, Crocker was a strong Liberal Party supporter, honorary secretary to the Wellington's Women's Liberal Association but became disillusioned in 1907 and left the party of 'a Government which persecutes women' to join the campaign for women's suffrage to avoid being a 'traitor to her sex'. Crocker spoke at the founding meeting of the Bath branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and was the first suffragette prisoner to stay at Emily Blathwayt's Eagle House. She eventuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Warwick
The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of a government initiative to expand higher education. The Warwick Business School was established in 1967, the Warwick Law School in 1968, Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) in 1980, and Warwick Medical School in 2000. Warwick incorporated Coventry College of Education in 1979 and Horticulture Research International in 2004. Warwick is primarily based on a campus on the outskirts of Coventry, with a satellite campus in Wellesbourne and a central London base at the Shard. It is organised into three faculties—Arts; Science, Engineering and Medicine, and Social Sciences—within which there are thirty-two departments. Warwick has around 29,534 full-time students and 2,691 academic and research staff, with an average intake of 4,950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Coultate
Annie Coultate (''née'' de Lacy, ''c''. 1856 – 1931) was a teacher and leading suffragist in York, England. Life Coultate was born in Fulford, North Yorkshire, in 1856. She trained as a pupil-teacher and was later employed as assistant head mistress at Fishergate Elementary School in York. She married Frank Coultate in 1881 and they had two children. Activism Coultate became involved in campaigning for women's enfranchisement after being inspired by a talk given by Emmeline Pankhurst in York during 1908. She founded the local Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) branch in York during 1910, when she was 55 years old. Coultate organised speakers from the Scarborough WSPU branch, such as Adela Pankhurst and Marion Mackenzie, to address the branch in York, and spoke at Scarborough WSPU meetings in return. Her activism included selling the ''Votes for Women'' newspaper from door to door around York, organising the local suffragette boycott of the 1911 census with Viole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
