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Thursday February Seventy years after the suffragettes on the fight for women's suffrage SEVENTY years ego ..

... million Women vote other women on to council benches Nottinghamshire County Council has 18 women (and men) and Nottingham City Council has nine women among its members Now the nation has woman Prime Minister though still a marked minority of ...

Published: Thursday 04 February 1988
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
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To 0 w 0 1806: John Stuart Mill, father of the women's suffrage movement, born in London. El 1818: William

... To 0 w 0 1806: John Stuart Mill, father of the women's suffrage movement, born in London. El 1818: William George Fargo, a founder of the Wells-Fargo Company, born in New York State. ;1..1856: Doctor Livingstone, explorer, arrived on the West coast of ...

Published: Friday 20 May 1988
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 140 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

I ' ' j DERBY EVENING TELEGRAPH Tuesday January 14 1992 10 Bygones Fired by women's suffrage? WITH General Election

... I ' ' j DERBY EVENING TELEGRAPH Tuesday January 14 1992 10 Bygones Fired by women's suffrage? WITH General Election speculation already taking up great slabs of television time a cutting sent by a reader assumes an odd sort of topicality Alice Barnett ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1992
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1688 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

90 years ago THE VAGARIES of the “shrieking sisterhood of suffragettes” would have seriously imperilled the ..

... suffragettes” would have seriously imperilled the cause of women’s suffrage were it not that there is a large and sober-minded body of public opinion in favour of the movement. The Northampton Women's Liberal Association, for instance, includes many influential ...

Published: Monday 28 October 1996
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 86 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

6 Evening Post Monday May 3 1999 VICAR’S DAUGHTER WHO AIDED FIGHT FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE EVEIMIIMO A bravery ..

... Zealand women have the vote why not British women?’ The fringe meeting drew a large crowd which the police were called to control leading to several arrests plus complaints by the women of rough treatment At a special court Helen five other women and one ...

Published: Monday 03 May 1999
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1315 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Women’s long battle

... books on women's rights will also be displayed, The first organised pelition to Parliament asking that women should be given the vote was presented by John Stuart Mill on June 7, 1866. The Fawcett Society, then the London Society for Women's Suffrage, was ...

Published: Tuesday 07 June 1966
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 226 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

50 Yews Ago

... an open-air meeting via held in the Marketgecein connection with National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. A stirring address upon the claims of women to the suffrage was given by Mrs. Cooper, the official organiser to a large and attentive audience ...

Published: Friday 29 August 1958
Newspaper: Stamford Mercury
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 48 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

sCI Search for suffragettes

... for suffragettes LOCAL history researchers are looking for people who were involved in the original struggle for the women's suffrage ppovement in Northampton. Louise Turner, a member of the Oral History Team, part of the Borough Council’s Community Programme ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1987
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Mrs M. Whalley

... Mrs M. Whalley A member of the Women's Suffrage Movement from 1916 to 1918, Mrs Mary Whalley, has died at her home at Peterborough. Mrs Whalley, 1333 Lincoln Road, Werrington, died on March 29, aged 93. Mrs Whalley was a schoolteacher from 1906 to 1913 ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 1978
Newspaper: Peterborough Advertiser
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Can you recall?

... Can you recall? I am at present researching at Leicester University the women's suffrage movement in Leicester during the early part of his century and their struggie to get the vote. I would therefore be very interested to know if any of ym:lnucleflh ...

Guilds followed fight OBJECTS:—

... society for «women aspiring after a means of higher education.” The main discussion point was, “Is the exten’sion of the Parliamentary {franchise to women desirable, and if so, under what conditions?” In 1897, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies ...

Published: Friday 08 January 1965
Newspaper: Peterborough Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 753 | Page: 4 | Tags: none