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Published: Monday 13 March 1972
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 84 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

9.0 News with Angela Rippon; Weather

... La Traviata, L'Egisto and the new 1976 production, The Mother of Us All, a pageant of American history on the theme of women's suffrage. 11.10 Storyteller. Alec McCowen tells The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells (repeat). 11.40 Weatherman/Regional News 11 ...

Published: Thursday 14 July 1977
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 99 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Slums

... Social inequalities awakened her politically and when she met Lewis Casson he rebuked her for not knowing anything about women's suffrage and took her to hear Mrs. Pankhurst in Manchester. & Soon she was speaking authoritatively about it, supporting the ...

Published: Friday 20 October 1972
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Foundations

... Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans at Arbury. She was a woman who I feel laid the foundation stone of women's suffrage and emancipation. The decendants of the men and women who are characterised in her work still live and work in Nuneaton. After Mrs. Adams had given ...

Published: Monday 20 September 1971
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 132 | Page: 33 | Tags: none

Mary Stocks

... of her life. The exalted positions she has occupied in colleges and universities, her untiring work for such causes as Women's Suffrage, Adult Iliduclition, the Welfare State in general, are but a few of the spheres in which she has striven to improve living ...

Published: Thursday 20 July 1972
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 164 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Fair play for families

... Fair play for families A SURVEY — yet another one — reveals that in this 50th year of women’'s suffrage three out of four housewives receive no money which they can call their own. T 00 many men hold on to their pay packets and give the wife barely enough ...

Published: Tuesday 11 July 1978
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 124 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

200 YEARS AGO

... taken.— liirmingha PO,l. lone, 187 ti The International Women's Suffrage Congress in Paris has advocated the abolition of protective legislation for women in industry because of a nature to hamper women in their work. —Th‘ rm in Oa rn Pos ./u r ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1976
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

P. Hillock

... school I am in the process of doing a project on the Women Sufi ragettes, and was wondering if you could ask your readers if any of them took part in or know someone who was connected with the women's suffrage. I would be grateful of any help you or the readers ...

Published: Monday 17 August 1970
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 167 | Page: 8 | 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

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

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