... SUFFRAGETTE Late night listeners to the radio on Sunday night heard a brief commentary on the fifty years celebrations of women's suffrage and one of the militant members of the suffragete movement who spoke was Mrs Connie Lewcock, of 19 Silver Hill Drive ...

... fact it claims to have the backing of 300 M.P.s and three unions. “In this year, when we are celebrating 51 years of women’s suffrage it is high time the equal rights campaign turned their attention to the unglamorous and often forgotten cause of Britain's ...

... company and announced details of their first play which will be ready in about three weeks’ time. The play,.about the women’s suffrage movement, will form a central part of the continuing “Theatremobile Campaign” which will also include demonstrations ...

... Hebden Bridge. The play is set in 1910 when Rossendale was one of the first constituencies in the country to field a Women'’s Suffrage candidate, and shows the conflict which arises. It opens at Hebden Bridge ‘Trades Club next Friday. ...

... a soot-blackened leaflet, announcing a meeting of Rugby Women's Suffrage Society in Rugby Market Place in 1910, fluttered out. The society — ‘‘non-party and non-mmgant — was to be addresged by Migs E. M. Gardner, BA| of B gham. Also ddvertised on'the ...

... Miss Capstick was moved by Mrs B. Turner Members of tie women's seclhion of the Nelson Labour Party had an exhibition dwring their meeting on Friday crening. The eghibition comprised women's suffrage souvenirs belonging to the late Mrs S 1. Cooper, In 1968 ...

... contact them. The book will be called “One Hand Tied Behind Us — The Rise of the Suffrage Movement’ and will describe the lives of women from the cotton towns who fought for women’s rights between 1885 and 1906. Say the writers: “If any readers can remember ...

... Scotland Women gave their lives to get the vote— but the number of women I meet who don’t use their vote at election time and don't care about it makes me sad and angry' just wish more women would think back to what the Suffragettes did WOMEN died fighting ...

... mutilated corpse of a victim of the Tongs, the Oriental equivalent of the Mafia. Women in Public by Patricia Hollis (Allen & Unwin £8.50) is a fascinating survey of the women’s movement in the second half of the 19th century. It contains a full and comprehensive ...

... BEDROOM A sympathetic! 'President Nixon asked Americans to recognise the role women played in the development of the country and said they'd fought long and hard for suffrage eminists vowed that th fight would be carried everywhere from the bedroom to ...

... iron-ore, copper and silver, with a minute quantity of gold found in the northern Lapland. Granite of a very fine quality women suffrage, the vote being granted to them in 1907. On the other hand military service is compulsory with a volunteer organisation ...