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Swiss women still fight for the vote BERNE, Monday GROUP of modern suffragettes whom Emily Pankhurst would have ..

... Swiss women still fight for the vote BERNE, Monday GROUP of modern suffragettes whom Emily Pankhurst would have been proud of, are fighting for emancipation in the West's last stronghold against votes for women. For the first time a minority group has ...

Published: Monday 19 February 1968
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Chains are cold comfort for naked Brian Even Emily Pankhurst would have pbeen shocked at the latest variation ..

... Chains are cold comfort for naked Brian Even Emily Pankhurst would have pbeen shocked at the latest variation on her iheme of chaining people to railings! of the year. With no morning newspapers printing the gates to the Daily Telegraph despatch bay were ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1975
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

EQUAL VOIING RIGHTS

... balance between the sexes, said Hilaire Belloc. Pictured right, a group of former Suffragettes gather below the statue of Emily Pankhurst. Their medals commemorate prison sentences and hunger strikes. I ° / is ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1978
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 56 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Hitler, Man of the Century

... Which man has most influenced the 20th century ? ” But Hitler was a clear winner. Other results: Most influential woman, Emily Pankhurst; most important event of the century, use of nuclear power; most important event of the past 10 years, space exploration ...

Published: Tuesday 05 March 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

birthdays Sir Robin Day, broadcaster, 71 (pictured); Bill Wyman, Rolling Stone, 58; Dale Griffin, Mott the ..

... and heir, Edward VI. 1901: American Mrs Ann Edson Taylor went over Niagara Falls in a padded barrel. 1900: Suffragette Emily Pankhurst and daughter Christabel were sent to prison for 'inciting the public to rush the House of Commons'. 1931: Chicago mobster ...

Published: Monday 24 October 1994
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SEX BILL DEMO

... Transport le gardens just yards away House and the BBC's Broad- am the statue of suffragette casting House in Portland der Emily Pankhurst. The Place. ur were a dozen Police later used bolt cut- four “Chatel 1875, depend- women, who were taken away t 1 ‘5 — ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1975
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

FIRST WORLD WAR

... FIRST WORLD WAR When the First World War started in 1914 Emily Pankhurst transformed the W.S.P.U. into a national service and anti- pacifist organisation. She made many speeches to help recruiting for the armed forces. When in 1918 an Act of Parliament ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1969
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 125 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Chains are cold comfort for

... Chains are cold comfort for Even Emily Pankhurst would have peen shocked at the latest variation on her theme of chaining people to railings! As a joke a stag party handcuffed a naked pridegroom to the gates of the Daily Telegraph in Fleet Street. The ...

Published: Friday 28 March 1975
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 153 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

PURE COMEDY LIFTED THE LID

... PURE COMEDY LIFTED THE LID Keir Hardie, Mrs. Emily Pankhurst and the spirits of any of the other notable political reformers whose names happen to have stuck — in the craw or elsewhere—must have somersaulted sickeningly during Wednesday’s BBC-1 “Play ...

Published: Saturday 18 December 1965
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 147 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

22 EVENING SENTINEL February 22.1444 Sue Murray D.B. & H. MURRAY, S 6 HIGH ST., BIDDULPH. Te1..513311 Sue left a

... rapport with my clients and give them the interest and service which they deserve. I trust that I am successful in this. Emily Pankhurst Clarice Cliff SUFFRAGETTE LEADER POTTERY PAINTRESS I Pauline Steel is a registered teacher of Ballet, Jazz and Tap, with ...

Published: Tuesday 22 February 1994
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 141 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

SATURDAY August 29 1998 The Birmingham Post The funeral procession for Earl Haig His old comrades-in-arms were ..

... escort him plus soldiers of three allied nations forming a mile-long procession Thousands mourn the deaths of suffragette Emily Pankhurst (above) whose funeral was attended by daughters Chris-tobel and Sylvia (above right) Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1998
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 170 | Page: 57 | Tags: none