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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.
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]
Women's Social and Political Union members and suffragettes Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst. The Historiography of the Suffragette Campaign deals with the various ways Suffragettes are depicted, analysed and debated within historical accounts of their role in the campaign for women's suffrage in early 20th century Britain.
The organisation is considered to be a non-militant suffrage association, and although it welcomed male members, it was organised and led by women. [1] Their methods of influence included drawing-room meetings, addressed by prominent male and female suffragists, as well as networking with other organisations, such as The Primrose League, West of Scotland Women's Liberal Unionist Association ...
Scottish Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies is a Scottish organisation for women's suffrage. [1] It was established in 1910 as an affiliate of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in London for the constitutional suffrage campaign in Scotland. [1] Those activists largely following peaceful methods were nicknamed as Suffragists ...
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 .
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 ]
Ethel Moorhead in the March 1912 edition of "Wizard of the North" magazine. After training as an artist, when she was 29, in Paris under Mucha [citation needed] and in Whistler's studio, the Atelier Carmen, between October 1898 and April 1901, with fellow Dundee painter, Janet Oliphant, Moorhead returned to Dundee and set up a portrait studio with Oliphant where she worked for fifteen years ...