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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.
Her father was an activist for women's rights. His opposition to taxes that differentiated between genders caused him to end up in Calton Gaol . Her father ran a number of fruit shops under the title of William Brown & Sons but he trained his daughters, Agnes and Jessie, well and refused to submit to laws that he objected to. [ 2 ]
The Suffragette was a newspaper associated with the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, as "the Official Organ of the Women’s Social and Political Union" (WSPU). It replaced the previous journal of the organization, Vote for Women, in 1912, and its name changed to Britannia after the outbreak of World War I. [1]
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]
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.
Jane E. Taylour (born c.1827 - died 1905 [1]) was a Scottish suffragist and women's movement campaigner, and one of the first women to give lectures in public. [2] [3] She travelled around Scotland and northern England as a suffrage lecturer, [4] and was a key figure in spreading the message of the women's suffrage throughout Scotland and inspiring others to join the National Society for Women ...
Pederson also investigated correspondence from women in the public and private sphere during World War One. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] She was the Director of the Rise Up Quines! festival in Aberdeen in 2018 [ 6 ] and established Quinepedia – a digital biographical dictionary and celebration of women, and women's history in North-East Scotland.
She became the first Scottish woman to stand for and be elected to a school board. Stub article needs expanded, infobox and pic. Frances Balfour president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1896 to 1914. Could be expanded. Teresa Billington-Greig - Suffragette who helped create the Women's Freedom League. Infobox and headings ...