birthdays Sir Robin Day, broadcaster, 71 (pictured); Bill Wyman, Rolling Stone, 58; Dale Griffin, Mott the ..

... and heir, Edward VI. 1901: American Mrs Ann Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a padded barrel. 1900: Suffragette Emily Pankhurst and daughter Christabel were sent to prison for 'inciting the public to rush the House of Commons'. 1931: Chicago mobster ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1994
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

When all things are unequal

... When all things are unequal EMILY Pankhurst and her cronies did their bit at the turn of the century, but emancipation is still a long way off. We ::ifht have the vote, ladies, get to buy our own rounds in the pub, but don’t be conned into thinkin&we‘re ...

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... time to spend with each other. They didn't find it. Or, at least, Cathi didn't. I Mitchells Wine Offer VOTES FOR WOMEN: Emily Pankhurst in a polling booth, circa 1910. Her family were among the most celebrated of the suffragettes, whose very public fight ...

Published: Sunday 01 June 2003
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 134 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

SEX BILL DEMO

... Transport le gardens just yards away House and the BBC's Broad- am the statue of suffragette casting House in Portland der Emily Pankhurst. The Place. ur were a dozen Police later used bolt cut- four “Chatel 1875, depend- women, who were taken away t 1 ‘5 — ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1975
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... was the first athlete to run 100 yards in under 10 seconds, at Waltham Green, England. 0 1913: Suffragette leader Mrs Emily Pankhurst sentenced for inciting supporters to place explosives in the London home of David Lloyd George. 0 1983: Snow fell over ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1988
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 126 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Judge says remarks misunderstood by press

... says remarks misunderstood by press By Feargal Keane. A DISTRICT court judge who outraged feminists by suggesting that Emily Pankhurst and Countess Markievicz would turn in their graves if they knew how some women had developed as a result of women's liberation ...

Published: Sunday 12 December 1993
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 389 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The

... The EMILY Pankhurst, Ronald Reagan, Arthur Scargill and Lloyd George are the characters ready for a balloon debate at Staines Oast House on December 5. Each speaker, pretending to be one of the famous people travelling in a hot air balloon will try to ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1986
Newspaper: Staines & Ashford News
County: Middlesex, England
Type: | Words: 146 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Chains are cold comfort for

... Chains are cold comfort for Even Emily Pankhurst would have peen shocked at the latest variation on her theme of chaining people to railings! As a joke a stag party handcuffed a naked pridegroom to the gates of the Daily Telegraph in Fleet Street. The ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1975
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

W 1 SO OLD TIMES RETURNED

... All sorts of cars from Morris Eights and 1920 s Rolls Royces to the 1911 standard, which was owned by the suffragette Emily Pankhurst, were on show. There was also a spiendid turnout of traps and gigs, the highlight of which was a coach drawn by two greys ...

Published: Thursday 07 August 1975
Newspaper: Lurgan Mail
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 150 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

All About Bus Tours

... has recently donated £7 to the Parkhurst Memorial Fund to help with the costs of establishing a museum in memory of Emily Pankhurst. The next meeting will be held on March 25 when Fisherrow coastguard Roger McWee will be the guest speaker. This year’s ...

Published: Friday 14 March 1986
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PURE COMEDY LIFTED THE LID

... PURE COMEDY LIFTED THE LID Keir Hardie, Mrs. Emily Pankhurst and the spirits of any of the other notable political reformers whose names happen to have stuck — in the craw or elsewhere—must have somersaulted sickeningly during Wednesday’s BBC-1 “Play ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1965
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Gloria will open festival

... personality Gloria Hunniford, from Portadown. She will arrive at the Mall in Armagh in the 1911 Standard car used by Emily Pankhurst during her suffragette campaign in London. The car is to lead the Kirker Kavalcade of almost 200 vintage vehicles when ...

Published: Friday 23 April 1976
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 143 | Page: 8 | Tags: none