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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]
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]
Agnes Henderson Brown also known as Nannie Brown (12 April 1866 – 1 December 1943) was a Scottish suffragist and writer. She was one of the "Brown Women" who walked from Edinburgh to London in 1912.
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 ...
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]
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.
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.