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Suffragette threat in Fife

... Suffragette threat in Fife MEMORIES of the suffragette movement continue to bring a response from readers. Mr Christopher Lorimer of St Andrews recalls how the suffragettes were considered a threat to Kellie Castle in Fife. As a small boy I can remember ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1989
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 62 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Memories of a suffragette

... Memories of a suffragette MRS AGNES STEPHEN of Broughty Ferry is one of the last remaining suffragettes. Here she talks to a Courier reporter about her part in the campaign for voting rights for women. IN LONDON this week Mrs Margaret Thatcher celebrated ...

Published: Saturday 06 May 1989
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 429 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Suffragette joins in celebration

... Suffragette joins in celebration A 102-YEAR-OLD woman, who was jailed for trying to put nails into the Commons seat of then Premier Lloyd George, yesterday returned to Westminsterto celebrate the 70th anniversary of votes for women. Mrs Catherine Griffiths ...

Published: Friday 05 February 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 238 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Suffragettes take over Forfar

... Suffragettes take over Forfar 8 —Evening Telegraph, Saturday, November 12, 1988 Forfar resounded to strident calis for equality and votes for women today as a group of militant feminists took over the town centre. Following a march along the High Street ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1988
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 259 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Evening Telegraph, Wednesday, October 22, 1986— “SUFFRAGETTES” AT LABOUR H.Q.||| |“S.A. MUST SOLVE OWN ..

... Evening Telegraph, Wednesday, October 22, 1986— “SUFFRAGETTES” AT LABOUR H.Q.||| |“S.A. MUST SOLVE OWN PROBLEMS” i s\WKo el e i : There were angry scenes at the Labour south London when the women suddenly An act of faith is required from the South the ...

Published: Wednesday 22 October 1986
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 375 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

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

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

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