... history when women’s political activities received more than passing mention one of England’s foremost suffragettes, Mrs Emily Pankhurst is arrested outside Buckingham Palace. wife-battering and violence against women generally, it comes as a shock to leam ...

... inadequacies of the Sex Discrimination Bill. The demo was staged just yards away from the statue of suffragette leader Emily Pankhurst. It came after bricks, wrapped in women's lib posters, were thrown through windows at Transport House, the Labour Party ...

... Hardie called attention to the sentence of nine months' imprisonment passed upon Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence and Mrs Emily Pankhurst, and urged the Horne Secretary to order their immediate transference to the First Division, and to review the sentence ...

... committee has also donated £lOO to the Pankhurst Trust to help preserve the home of the founder of the Sufflregette Movement, Emily Pankhurst. ...

... objections, and 'the Session Clerk gave evidence that the accused at the close of the intercessory prayer 'chanted God Save Emily Pankhurst. ' He ! thought no one had the right to chant God leave anybody. i Rev. Mr Scott, who conducted the service, was asked ...

... of able-bodied actors ‘is demeaning to,those with direct experience of the daily struggles of disability (“like*having Emily Pankhurst played by a man”), and that their terms’ of reference fail to reflect the banality of disabled peoples’ concerns; having ...

... an historic event or British women — 50 years of voting rights to be celebrated this year. It is over 50 years since Emily Pankhurst made her stanJ for democracy for women as she tied herself to the railings, and Midlothian District %ouncil feel the occasion ...

... cracked when she quotes ‘“‘outdated” agreements ;oing back to 1919 covering the ASLEF confrontation. She should remember Emily Pankhurst and all her valiant followers who fought in the same era to give Maggie the right to vote and hold the moition that she ...

... Feminism and the Left IF you think that Women's Liberation began at worst with Germaine Greer, or at middling with Emily Pankhurst or at best with Mary Wollstonecraft, then read Sheila Rowbotham's Women, Resistance and Revolution (Ip::nshod on Monday ...

... are appalled this effrontery to women. Most of the girls objected on democratic grounds. One, who gave her name as “Emily Pankhurst. said: “We challenge the right of the management committee to refuse us entry because of our sex.” After releasing themselves ...

... Residents could be forgiven for thinking that they had gone back in time to the turn of the century and the days of Mrs Emily Pankhurst. However these modern-day suffragettes have a less controversial issue to promotethe latest production by Forfar Dramatic ...

... first peat bath. The village expanded in line with its nationwide reputation, and luminaries such as George Bernard Shaw, Emily Pankhurst and Ernest Shackleton came north to entertain the visitors. More than 100 years on, it is hoped the natural source of ...