... Thatcher’s suffragette celebration BARONESS THATCHER, who last night defied the Government and led a historic revolt in the Lords over the Maastricht Treaty, was in robust form yesterday as she unveiled a plaque commemorating suffragettes. First she cornered ...

... Suffragette threat in Fife MEMORIES of the suffragette movement continue to bring a response from readers. Mr Christopher Lorimer of St Andrews recalls how the suffragettes were considered a threat to Kellie Castle in Fife. As a small boy I can remember ...

... Memories of a suffragette MRS AGNES STEPHEN of Broughty Ferry is one of the last remaining suffragettes. Here she talks to a Courier reporter about her part in the campaign for voting rights for women. IN LONDON this week Mrs Margaret Thatcher celebrated ...

... Suffragette joins in celebration A 102-YEAR-OLD woman, who was jailed for trying to put nails into the Commons seat of then Premier Lloyd George, yesterday returned to Westminsterto celebrate the 70th anniversary of votes for women. Mrs Catherine Griffiths ...

... SUFFRAGETTE, THEN M.P. 1 Mrs Barbara Ayrton Gould, for 1 a member of the Socialist National tive, died at her London home on 1939 ' WaS c^ia '' rman Elected M.P. for North Hendon j®. Mrs Ayrton Gould was defeated at ' General Election. .J Her five years ...

... EX-SUFFRAGETTE BACKS SON'S APPEAL Richard Pankhurst, of Charteris Road, Woodford, Essex, told the conscientious objectors' appellate tribunal yesterday that he objected to the use of force against the ivikuyu tribe in Kenya. He gave this as an example ...

... in the 1913 Derby, though whether by intent to publicise the suffragettes' cause, or as the result of a tragic accident, modern thinking is not certain. The purple, white and green suffragette colours were worn with pride and the prison sentences imposed ...

... the exhibits in a Suffragette Museum opened in 1947 was a tennis ball made by Charlotte Marsh in Aylesbury Jail. Starting with a pebble, she made a perfect ball with cleaning rags. With this and their dust pans, she and other suffragettes played tennis in ...

... book, Dundee's Suffragettes, instead of completing the round, the PM found himself rounded upon! Rising like uncorked genies from behind a deep bunker came Winnie Wallace from Dundee and the equally ferocious Edinburgh suffragette, Flora Helen Smith ...

... menu includes such topical delicacies as Petit Pate a la Suffragette and Bombe a la Feministe! How it came to find its way to Dundee is anyone's guess, admits the reader. Perhaps a Dundee suffragette attended the overseas congress. The reader would greatly ...

... which was prevented only when the fuse lit by suffragettes was snuffed out by a gust of wind. Dundee letter boxes were sabotaged by chemicals, windows were smashed, court cases disrupted and suffragettes were accused of setting fire to Farrington Hall ...

... reader's recent inquiry about suffragettes in the Dundee area and has been loaned by Mr lan Hendry of the Tayside Postcard Club. The scene is set in Arbroath—the date around 1910. In the foregound an unidentified suffragette addresses a large crowd gathered ...