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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.
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]
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]
Crawfurd first became active in the women's suffrage movement in about 1900, then in 1910 at a meeting in Rutherglen. [11] Agreeing with their tactics, Crawfurd became a member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) the same year. [12] Crawfurd was jailed three times for "militant" political activity during her career as an activist. [13]
Janie Allan was born to Jane Smith and Alexander Allan (who married in 1854), members of a wealthy Glaswegian family that owned the Allan Line shipping company. [2] Her grandfather, Alexander Allan, founded the firm in 1819, and by the time that her father – the youngest of Alexander Allan's five sons – took over the running of the company's Glasgow operations, the line had many vessels ...
Marion Wallace Dunlop (22 December 1864 – 12 September 1942) was a Scottish artist, author and illustrator of children's books, [1] and suffragette. She was the first and one of the most well known British suffrage activists to go on hunger strike on 5 July 1909, after being arrested in July 1909 for militancy. [ 2 ]
Historically Yemen was divided in two nations prior to its unification in 1990, both of whom already had women's suffrage prior to the unification. The history of women's suffrage is therefore split. Women's suffrage was granted in South Yemen in 1967. [238] The reform was a part of a number of reforms introduced in women's rights under ...
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