FIRST WORLD WAR

... FIRST WORLD WAR When the First World War started in 1914 Emily Pankhurst transformed the W.S.P.U. into a national service and anti- pacifist organisation. She made many speeches to help recruiting for the armed forces. When in 1918 an Act of Parliament ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1969
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
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I’ve been fortunate; Girton’s always been very good to me, and it has the best English faculty in Cambridge. I

... feel that dedicated women weren’t supposed to look pretty and enjoy themselves, but I don’t think this is true now. The Emily Pankhurst spirit seems to have vanished completely. Women have been accepted in Cambridge theatre for a long while, although when ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1969
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1725 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

My love for a pavement sweeper

... the gorgeous, puffy Edwardian hairstyle that = coming back. It's the coat that will have us all looking like latterday Emily Pankhurst by Christmas. But be warned — you'll need some of Mrs. Pankhurst’s courage when you step out in your pavement sweeper ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1969
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 660 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ARE women really the underdogs today and no better off for the fight their grand- . mothers led under the

... the underdogs today and no better off for the fight their grand- . mothers led under the passionate leadership of Mrs. Emily Pankhurst? Despite equality with men in some fields, we still have a long way to go. Are women given the same opportunities as men ...

young pupils at &ism to

... were good but you could not hear them. After the hymns Christopher Unwin, Linda Spittle and Wendy Overton told us about Emily Pankhurst and the Suiten Jets (sic) and Robert Peel. Mr. Speed asked us to shoot questions at him and he answered them quite willingly ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1969
Newspaper: Atherstone News and Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 291 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

M.P.'s visit

... were good but you could not hear them. After the hymns Christopher Unwin, Linda Spittle and Wendy Overton told us about Emily Pankhurst and tit( Suffers Jets (sic) and Robert Peel. Mr Speed asked us to shoot questions at him and he answered them quite willingly ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1969
Newspaper: Coleshill Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Women win fight but the hurdles remain

... Women win fight but the hurdles remain EMILY PANKHURST and the suffragette movement is a far cry from the modern woman, yet there are many hurdles for the woman of today to Overcome. These hurdles and many others which have faced the 100 years. It now ...

Blood Week organiser answers clergyman critic ... Case of `thirty-shilling widows' ... Mothers disgusted with ..

... leaders. This is Barbara Castle's era of financial equality for all. Do we widows have to return to the early tactics of Emily Pankhurst and her Suffragettes before our cause is considered? instead IN REPLY to the statement el :heßev. een's R. J Blood Week ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1970
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 474 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

APPALLED

... are appalled this effrontery to women. Most of the girls objected on democratic grounds. One, who gave her name as “Emily Pankhurst. said: “We challenge the right of the management committee to refuse us entry because of our sex.” After releasing themselves ...

Published: Thursday 26 February 1970
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 222 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PETTICOAT POWER GETS MOVING

... violently with the structure of the family unit. Bul think its wrong to say that the woman's lot hasn't improved since Emily Pankhurst. Of course it has. We now have democratic rights and a higher standard of living. But that's not the be and end all. It's ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1970
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 909 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

NEW SEXES BATTLE (but SMNO WOMBA want to be more 'equal' than others)

... in yet another attempt to liberate the female from a life of drudgery in the home, and inferiority in the factory. Emily Pankhurst may have started off the emancipation cry, but the suffragettes have nothing on the modern, militant manhaters. If our ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1970
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 921 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

K. W. MAGINNIS. (Hon. Sec, S.T.P.A)) The 30s widows

... leaders. This is Barbara Castle’s era of financial equality for all; do we widows have to return to the early tactics of Emily Pankhurst and her Suffragettes before our cause is considered.—Yours, &c., JEAN HAMTLTON, Retfam ...

Published: Tuesday 17 March 1970
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 3 | Tags: none