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Grace Ross Cadell (October 25, 1855 – February 19, 1918) was a Scottish medical doctor and suffragist, and one of the first group of women to study medicine in Scotland and qualify. She was, with Elsie Inglis , one of the initial entrants to the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women , set up by Sophia Jex-Blake in 1886.
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 ...
Mary Pollock Grant (1876–1957) – Scottish suffragette, Liberal Party politician, missionary and policewoman; Joan Lavender Bailie Guthrie (1889–1914) – British suffragette, and member of the Women's Social and Political Union; Elsa Gye (1881–1943) – Scottish suffragette, imprisoned for the cause, led WSPU branches in Nottingham and ...
Suffragettes were arrested and imprisoned as they fought for voting rights. Photos from 1912 to 1920 chronicle their efforts and eventual victory. 20 vintage photos of suffragettes that will make ...
While Black, Indigenous, and immigrant women also fought for women's suffrage, their faces are rarely seen in historical imagery celebrating the 19th amendment. Photos give glimpses into the long ...
On Saturday 10 October 2009 5000 people paraded through Edinburgh in autumn sunshine to commemorate the work of the suffrage movement, to celebrate women's achievements in the intervening 100 years, and to re-energise women's commitment to political representation and action in Scotland. [2] "The suffragettes wanted votes for women; these re ...
Lillias Mitchell - Suffragette campaigner from Edinburgh. Ethel Moorhead - British suffragette and painter. Needs expanded, pic and infobox. Edith Mansell Moullin - ODNB; Anna Munro - active campaigner in the women's suffrage movement from Glasgow. Needs expanded, pic and infobox. Eunice Murray - Scottish suffrage campaigner and author. Needs ...
Scottish suffragettes (60 P) Pages in category "Scottish suffragists" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total. This list may not reflect recent ...