Actors question arts group plan

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 03 November 1978
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 165 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

women

... women LABOUR Parliamentary candidate for Gainsborough, Mr. Willy Bach is taking a keener interest than most in the celebrations to mark 50 years of women's suffrage which commence this weekend. For the most famous of all suffrageties Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst ...

Banned

... free ( - but not too free)translation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata - , %cry suited to the feminist propaganda of the Women's Suffrage mo% ement, then in full blast. _ _ _ - - It was in this spirit of rebel- ...

Published: Friday 30 November 1973
Newspaper: Fulham Chronicle
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 189 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Suli-nose

... Landaulette, once owned by Sylvia Pankhurst, who with her sister Christobel and her mother Emilina, fought so hard for women’'s suffrage in the early years of the century. It is now owned by Mr. Walter Wilson, chairman of Ulster Carpet Mills Ltd., in Portadown ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1970
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 156 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Men's Suffrage Society on War Service

... Men's Suffrage Society on War Service. The first annual meeting of the Liberal Men's National Association for Women's Suffrage has been held at the Manchester Reform Club. The Attleney General ( Sir John Simon) wrote regretting his it,ability 10 attend ...

Published: Friday 28 February 1975
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 179 | Page: 25 | Tags: none

All expansion

... beginnings of air travel Naturally the 'new age had its fair share of complaints It was in Manchester that the first women's suffrage society was founded and Miss Emily Pankhurst herself was born In Manchester. The suffragette movement, however, later ...

Published: Friday 19 June 1970
Newspaper: Heywood Advertiser
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 205 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

My vote's secret — Annie, 102

... has had plenty of experience of voting. At 102, Mrs Dimmock well remembers Mrs Pankhurst and her campaign for Women's Suffrage. And since women fl the vote 51 years ago S has voted many times. Grannie Dimmock, as she is known as in the hospital, will be ...

Published: Tuesday 01 May 1979
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 158 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

An unforgivable area of ignorance

... in . their - feeling about women's suffrage. Bruce Glasier of the ILP feared that WSPU militancy would wreck the party. Belfort Bax's Essays in Socialism ;.. (1907) . were rabidly anti-feminist. Support for women's - suffrage,” says Elspeth King, was ...

Published: Tuesday 12 September 1978
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 585 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Pictures from abroad

... Townswomen’'s badge to commemorate the golden jubilee of both the winning of votes for women and the forming of the movement as a direct result of women’s suffrage. ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1978
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

in jobs

... of 50 years of women’s suffrage. He said he was fpx-oud to have been a part of the two most important pieces of legislation — the equal pay and sex discrimination measures — but continued pressure was needed by and on behalf of women as statistics showed ...

Published: Monday 24 July 1978
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 192 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

My father-Bertrand Russell

... between legal and illegal, civilized or strident, political methods had faced him once before —over the movement for women’s suffrage. He was as deeply committed to this cause as he was to any since that time. But on this voting issue he decided that ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1970
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 981 | Page: 13 | Tags: none