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by a Courier reporter

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 223 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Monday marks a significant anniversary for women

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 527 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PLAY OF THE WEEK

... December, 1912, a suffragette, Miss Emily Wilding-Davidson, was sentenced for assaulting the Rev. Forbes Jackson, a Baptist minister in Aberdeen—in mistake for Lloyd George. In August, 1913, Mr Asquith was attadted by two suffragettes on the Lossiemouth ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1961
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 404 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

g'S the ItALIGIE

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 23 August 1990
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LINK

... ness, Alice Morgan Wright, arrives in London. Object of her visit? It takes us hack to the lively, exciting days of the Suffragettes. It was like this: Miss Wright camp over here lama Paris where she was an art student, in 1912, to help those militant ...

Published: Thursday 10 June 1954
Newspaper: Montrose Standard
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 129 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Miss Clunas is 91

... Miss Clunas is 91 Miss Lila Clunas, the former Dundee town councillor who was prominent in the Suffragette movement (celebrating its jubilee at present), had visitors yesterday at 8 Albert Gardens, Broughty Ferry. She is 91. Her callers were Lord Provost ...

the AIGIE column

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 04 December 1989
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 315 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

ANSWERS

... ANSWERS @ Mini Quiz—l On the moon. 2 A mineral. 3 A puck. 1 Christopher Reeve. 5 The javelin. 6 The Suffragettes. @ Missing Link—PHONI ...

Published: Tuesday 28 May 1991
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 25 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst is arrested at Buckingham Palace. Mrs Stephen (inset) can clearly recall such dramatic ..

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1989
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

LONDON DIARY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 04 February 1989
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 580 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Death of leading sufragette

... Death of leading sufragette MRS AGNES STEPHEN, who was one of the leading lights in the suffragette movement in Dundee, has died in hospital aged 101. Born in Inverness, Mrs Stephen spent most of her life in Dundee and became very well known through the ...

Published: Monday 19 September 1994
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The proposal made at the Council meeting that the town, should take over the Gas Works has aroused general ..

... surprise and disappointment. Arbroath, Forfar and Montrose all show larger decreases, however. 0 0 • • The efforts of the Suffragettes could have no way succeeded. Even if a few hundred women. had escaped being enumerated a pretty good guess could nave been ...

Published: Tuesday 18 April 1961
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 255 | Page: 7 | Tags: none