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Jessie Margaret Soga, LRAM (21 August 1870 [1] [2] – 23 February 1954 [3] [4]) was a Xhosa/Scottish contralto singer, music teacher and suffragist.She was described as the only black/mixed race suffrage campaigner based in Scotland. [5]
The documentary features a diverse range of black Scots from different generations and backgrounds, sharing their experiences of growing up and living in Scotland. [4] Kyasimire, who grew up in Glasgow during the 1980s, was inspired to create the film to explore the identity issues his mixed-race daughter might face. [5]
Annie Knight (1895–2006) – suffragette in Aberdeen Scotland; Agnes Lake (1887–1972) – business manager of the WSPU’s newspaper The Suffragette and hunger striker; Aeta Adelaide Lamb (1886–1928) – longest serving organiser in the WSPU; George Lansbury (1859–1940) – social reformer and politician who allied himself with the WSPU
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 ...
Annie Walker Craig (1864–1948) was a British socialist, political activist and suffragette active in England and Scotland. [1] She participated in many direct action campaigns and often gave a false name - notably Rhoda Robinson, Annie Walker Greig, and Annie Rhonda Walker - to the police to thwart further investigation or criminal charges.
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.
Georgiana Thomson was born near Kelso in Scotland to George Thomson and Margaret Stuart Thomson (née Scott). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography characterises her father as "an unsuccessful gentleman farmer". She was educated at a small boarding school in Edinburgh. [1] [2]
Janie Allan was born to Jane Smith and Alexander Allan (who married in 1854), members of a wealthy Glaswegian family that owned the Allan Line shipping company. [2] Her grandfather, Alexander Allan, founded the firm in 1819, and by the time that her father – the youngest of Alexander Allan's five sons – took over the running of the company's Glasgow operations, the line had many vessels ...