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1913 Epsom Derby. Craganour (3rd from left) and Aboyeur (4th from left) get in each others' way. The 1913 Epsom Derby, sometimes referred to as "The Suffragette Derby", was a horse race which took place at Epsom Downs on 4 June 1913. It was the 134th running of the Derby. The race was won, controversially, by Aboyeur at record 100–1 odds.
Until 1912, Votes for Women, edited and financed by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, [2] was the official newspaper of the WSPU. The Pethick-Lawrences were expelled from the WSPU in 1912, [3] as they objected to the militant tactics that were beginning to be used by suffragettes, and thereafter they published Votes for Women independently.
Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for 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 ...
Piper began riding in the show ring [1] and started his racing career as apprentice to H. D. Bates in 1905. He was not a fashionable jockey of the time [1] and prior to the Derby win for which he is noted, his big race successes were limited, although he did win the Great Jubilee Handicap at Kempton Park in 1908, weighing out at 6st 12, [2] and the Chester Vase.
Newsreel footage of the 1913 Epsom Derby from Pathé News. The events involving Davison occur between 5:51 and 6:15. The events involving Davison occur between 5:51 and 6:15. On 4 June 1913 Emily Davison obtained two flags bearing the suffragette colours of purple, white and green from the WSPU offices; she then travelled by train to Epsom ...
Turns out, modern-day shapewear and stilettos, which many find uncomfortable after 10 hours at the racetrack, are a walk on the beach compared to what was considered fashionable 150 years ago.
Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3 – 7 November 1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, an arsonist, a socialist parliamentary candidate and later head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
Tragedy at the Derby: Emily Davison and the horse Anmer. 1913 'Bullnose' Morris Oxford. 1 January – the British Board of Film Censors begins to classify and censor films. [1] 13 January – Edward Carson founds the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule in Ireland. [2]