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FOCUS ON CCTV – SPECIAL FEATURE \ Please return my photo plea

... last Wednesday evening. The distressed owner, described the woman shown as “a handsome woman” who was one of the original suffragettes” She asked for the picture to be returned, anonymously if preferred, to the Newsroom, Harrogate Advertiser, 1 Cardale Park ...

Published: Friday 16 March 2001
Newspaper: Ripon Gazette
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Bumper year for Burghley

... Tyne Howard Private co llection sheds A lively interactive performance takes a new light on post-war look at the Edwardian suffragette movement (01653 648333) March 5 _ ____ _j Duke of Beaufort Pointto-Point at Didmarton The Cheltenham of pointto-pointing ...

Published: Thursday 03 March 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 583 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

We won the most votes

... Blair is running the country with the support of only 25 per cent of the electorate. Is this really the democracy that the suffragettes fought for? It is certainly not a strong mandate. Gina Ogden, County councillor for Woodford Halse/Weedon, Cedar House ...

(Above) 9-The dining room. The most formal private room was softened by furnishings and Count Markievicz's ..

... later Countess Markievicz, who secured the international reputation of Lissadell. Constance, as artist, patron, socialist, suffragette, republican, freedom-fighter, thespian, reprieved from death sentence for involvement in the 1916 Rising, and the first ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1152 | Page: 116 | Tags: none

LUTYENS

... 840020) SURREY The Dutch House, Holm wood. Designed on a Y-shaped papillon plan in 1896, it was once the home of the leading Suffragette Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and her husband, Frederick, later Lord Pethick-Lawrence. ' The house is intriguing, with different ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 2006
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 89 | Tags: none

... And they retain control of county council and Daventry

... divisions of Middleton Cheney, Uplands and Greens Norton. important thing in my life is democracy. My grandmothers were suffragettes who campaigned for women’s right to vote. “It worries me this government has destroyed the interest people have in voting ...

F EW houses have seemed so melancholy to me as Lissadell, which I visited on a dank afternoon a week

... 'private Irish buyer'. These were Sarah Henrietta Purser' double pmtrait of Constance Markievicz and her sister, the poet and suffragette Eva Gore-Booth, as g-irls in a woodland setting, which made €239,000 (£ 167 ,300), and The Limerick Piper by J oseph Patrick ...

Published: Thursday 15 January 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 795 | Page: 74 | Tags: none

I leaves I tries the oven door We = e this chance to call him silly names, cos sometimes [

... interrogate the boy, my sweet. and then she trained to be a vet He’s saved our baby and our treat. and was, what’s more, a suffragette. My king and emperor kissed As for our hero, Orphan Ben, this brow!” “So let us give three hearty cheers he never had to ...

Published: Thursday 19 December 2002
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1032 | Page: 65 | Tags: none

THE WEEK OF THE BODY

... themselves by renouncing the world, adopting a solitary life and going without food. Fasting, from at least the time of the Suffragettes, has also been a means of making a political point. Fasting to attract an audience, however, is something new. It only ...

Published: Thursday 23 October 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1093 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

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... care. The author is particularly good on the political lives of Alva and Consuelo and their respective interest in the suffragette movement. She paints an enticing portrait of Consuelo's later life-her marriage to the balloonist Jacques Balsan, who, I ...

Published: Thursday 25 August 2005
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1246 | Page: 70 | Tags: none

ut would my old mentor Peter Black have been pleased to hear that? Were orchids ever meant to be the people's ..

... natural selection-not a bad fringe benefit. ln fact, such was the orchid 's identification with power that, in February 1913, suffragettes famously stormed the Orchid House at Kew, smashing pots and panes in a protest that was meant to be as sharp a poke at ...

Published: Thursday 30 December 2004
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1939 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

STRUTT&.t~ PARKER,t• Edinburgh Tel 0131 226 2500 Email edinburgh@struttandparker.co.uk www.struttandparker .co ..

... later Countess Markievicz, who secured the international reputation of Lissadell. Constance, as artist, patron, socialist, suffragette, republican, freedom-fighter, thespian, reprieved from death sentence for involvement in the 1916 Rising, and the first ...

Published: Thursday 25 September 2003
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 9322 | Page: 119 | Tags: none