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Frances Mary "Fanny" Parker OBE (1875–1924) – New Zealand-born suffragette prominent in the militant wing of the Scottish women's suffrage movement and repeatedly imprisoned for her actions Grace Paterson (1843–1925) – school board member, temperance activist, suffragist, and founder of the Glasgow School of Cookery
Vera Louise Holme, also known as Jack Holme (29 August 1881 – 1 January 1969), was a British actress and a suffragette.Born in Lancashire, she began working as a touring male impersonator when her parents could no longer support her.
On Saturday 10 October 2009 5000 people paraded through Edinburgh in autumn sunshine to commemorate the work of the suffrage movement, to celebrate women's achievements in the intervening 100 years, and to re-energise women's commitment to political representation and action in Scotland. [2] "The suffragettes wanted votes for women; these re ...
Scottish suffragettes (60 P) Pages in category "British suffragettes" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The following autumn, 1910, Thomson travelled to London to join the Pankhursts in their increasingly physical fight for women's right to vote. On 18th November 1910, the infamous clash between suffrage campaigners and police officers, known as Black Friday, took place on the streets of London. Thomson describes the day in her autobiography ...
Elizabeth Innes (1921-2015) was a Scottish paediatric haematologist. Gladice Keevil (1884 - 1959) was a British suffragette who served as head of the Midlands office of the WSPU between 1908 and 1910. Maggie Moffat NEW; Annot Wilkie - Suffragette and labour activist from Montrose. Lillian Williamson - suffragette. Catherine Hogg Blair- NEW ...
Ellen More has been identified with the part of the "Black Lady" in the tournaments of James IV of Scotland, [10] and as the subject of a racist poem by William Dunbar, Of Ane Blak-Moir, who had arrived in Scotland on the "latest ships". [11] [12] Her story was the basis of a character in a 2022 stage play, James IV - Queen of the Fight, by ...
Anna Munro advertising the Scottish Women's Freedom League. Women's suffrage was the seeking of the right of women to vote in elections. It was carried out by both men and women, it was a very elongated and gruelling campaign that went on for 86 years before the Representation of the People Act 1918 was introduced on 6 February 1918, which provided a few women with the right to vote.