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Margaret Irwin (1858–1940) – trade unionist, suffragist and founder member of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage; Christina Jamieson (1864–1942) – writer and suffragette; Maud Joachim (1869–1947) – suffragette who was one of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike
In 2024, only one accessible images of a (known) black Scottish suffragist Jessie M. Soga, has been identified, as is it unclear if there were other Scottish women of colour campaigning for the vote. Dr. TS Beall said Scotland's suffragists' and suffragettes' activities were not taught 'much' in Scottish schools, and their names were not generally known.
Have a look at our new Histropedia timeline of Women's suffrage in Scotland. Have a look at our Navigation box template we add to the foot of pages about the Scottish suffragettes. There is a draft biography you can look at and use as an exemplar: Mary Blathwayt .
Amy Sanderson née Reid (1876–1931), was a Scottish suffragette, national executive committee member of the Women's Freedom League, who was imprisoned twice.She was key speaker at the 1912 Hyde Park women's rally, after marching from Edinburgh to London, [1] and, with Charlotte Despard and Teresa Billington-Greig, was a British delegate to the 1908 [2] and 1923 international women's congresses.
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Of Scotland's King I haud my house, I pay him meat and fee, And I will keep my gude auld house, while my house will keep me. [ 4 ] During the Middle Ages, it was the norm for a wife to take charge of a castle and manor business in her husband's absence and defend it if need be, but the stand of the Countess of Dunbar is one of the best ...
The plan was to recall and celebrate the courage, passion and persistence of the women's suffrage activists who, for around sixty years from 1867 until 1928, had campaigned for the vote. A key event for the movement in Scotland was the great suffrage procession through the streets of Edinburgh on 9 October 1909.
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 ...