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Scottish suffragettes released from prison with Flora Drummond. Later Scotland's suffragettes were part of the British Women's Social and Political Union militant movement, and took part in campaigns locally and in London; for example when Winston Churchill arrived to stand for election as M.P. in Dundee in 1908 he was followed by 27 of the national leaders of the women's suffrage movements.
The leader of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies who had campaigned for the vote, Millicent Fawcett, was still alive and attended the parliament session to see the vote take place. She wrote in her diary the same night "It is almost exactly 61 years ago since I heard John Stuart Mill introduce his suffrage amendment to the Reform ...
[7] [8] [9] She has published a web based map of women's suffrage actions in Aberdeen. [10] Pedersen has written about the politicising of MumsNet [11] [12] and the protests by women against the Scottish Government's proposed reforms of the Gender Recognition Act. [13] Her work also extended to blogging in general [14] and police staff blogging ...
Margaret Charlotte Davidson (1879–1978) [1] was a modern languages teacher in Dornoch, Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands.. She was a leader in the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS); [2] a volunteer nurse [3] with the Scottish Women's Hospital in France during World War One; and an early Girl Guide Leader in her home town.
Lilias joined the Women's Social and Political Union at that meeting. [2] In 1910, Mitchell was part of a WSPU march to the House of Commons which was broken up by the police. She was arrested, and served a short sentence in Holloway Prison. [3] By 1911-1912 she was the WSPU organiser for Aberdeen. [3]
Mary Reid Anderson (née Macarthur; 13 August 1880 – 1 January 1921) was a Scottish suffragist (although at odds with the national groups who were willing to let a minority of women gain the franchise) [1] [2] and was a leading trades unionist.
Inglis also played a role in the early years of the Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies, acting as honorary secretary from 1906 to 1914. [10] Sarah Mair, who was a leading activist for various causes including the Edinburgh Ladies' Educational Association, became president of the society in 1907. [11]
Macmillan was active in the Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage (ENSWS). In 1897, two women's groups in Great Britain united to become the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), of whom Macmillan, along with Louisa Stevenson, served as executive committee members from Edinburgh. [5]