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... THE EMPIRE Protests in Britain centred on the Suffragette (Votes for Women) movement. Women began to be arrested, then sentenced, then jailed and then finally, when they went on hunger strikes, force fed. In February 1908 leader Emmeline Pankhurst, then ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

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Published: Saturday 01 January 2000
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 81 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

'OUR CENTURY 71900~1909 T 2 Writing history

... the flow of pictures, words and ideas which our grandfathers could never have imagined. Socially, the struggles of the suffragettes and the role played by women during two world wars has slowly, but surely, edged society towards sexual equality, while ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

' OUR CENTURY 1900~1909 '3 Fighting for women’s rights

... had already spent six weeks in Holloway prison for obstucting the police within the confines of Parliament and 50 other suffragettes had been arrested for @lt was to take a war to shake up society sufficiently to contemplate change, and even then it was ...

Published: Monday 03 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 991 | Page: 39 | Tags: none

QEvening Express HE year 1900 saw Britain established as •the greatest power in the world. Queen Victoria had • ..

... the Tsar in St Petersburg, they were fired on by troops and more than 500 were killed. Protests in Britain centred on the Suffragette (Votes for Women) movement. Women began to be arrested, then sentenced, then jailed and then finally, when they went on ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 2000
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

' OUR CENTURY 1910~1919 72’ Wave of change

... crucial role on the home front during the war, taking on jobs which had been traditionally the sole preserve of men. The suffragettes caused havoc throughout the decade, with their demonstrations becoming more violent. Their leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, ...

Published: Tuesday 04 January 2000
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 639 | Page: 46 | Tags: none

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... worked in this country and overseas, and furthered my education to postgraduate level. I have accomplished all that the suffragettes fought for, and all that my grandmother and mother could only have dreamed of. All this and I still don’t know if have ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 2000
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1295 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

OBITUARIES: JILL CRAIGIE

... screenplay for Windom's Way (1957). She also continued her work as an author and journalist with a particular interest in the suffragette and feminist movements. In 1992, Craigie made a brief comeback to the film world with a documentary for the BBC about Yugoslavia ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: FamilyNotice | Words: 224 | Page: 28 | Tags: notices 

1906 » » » Centenarian ‘remarkable woman’ My Century

... are still living) the collective age of these being 391 years. She is a Roman Catholic and has one son, an octom,mmm.wmmm Suffragette leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst was interviewed in the Express & Star in October while staying atthe home of aMrs ?firoson ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 581 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

LATEST DESBOROUGH CLUBS NEWS

... service starred the children of the Milk and Honey Club, who highlighted events from the century, from Queen Victoria, the suffragettes, through 1o up-to-date items. Scout post: The 2nd Desborough URC Scouts handled about 20,000 cards leading up to Christmas ...

Support for protest women

... in the town. A brass band played outside the prison on February 27 as she and 28 other suffragettes were released. *Mrs Sproson and another Wolverhampton suffragette Mrs Elizabeth Price, were arrested in a further raid on the House of Commons on March ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 2000
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 38 | Tags: none