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... has recently donated £7 to the Parkhurst Memorial Fund to help with the costs of establishing a museum in memory of Emily Pankhurst. The next meeting will be held on March 25 when Fisherrow coastguard Roger McWee will be the guest speaker. This year’s ...

Published: Friday 14 March 1986
Newspaper: Musselburgh News
County: East Lothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 141 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MR KEIR HARDIE AND THE SUFFRAGETTES

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1912
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 176 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

self-styled hooligan of the arts, Nabil S just as mil

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE T 0 BE HONOURED

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 08 June 1978
Newspaper: Dalkeith Advertiser
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ce of Tory ‘moderni

... cracked when she quotes ‘“‘outdated” agreements ;oing back to 1919 covering the ASLEF confrontation.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 ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Feminism and the Left

... 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 ...

Published: Friday 23 February 1973
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Village drinks to 1S water of life John Ross

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 02 May 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Nurses in Commons protest on pay

... on pay By JAMES NAUGHTIE, Our Chief Political Correspondent Four nurses chained themselves yesterday to the statue of Emily Pankhurst, the suffragette, at the_ Commoudiu pro- test at the Government’s refu- sal to increase their pay offer. They maintained ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Soap

... Menna. And why would anybody get involved with her? No, it's a hair colouring frenzy that's happening, and as usual, the Emily Pankhurst of the village, Sheila Ramsay, is leading the way. One minute, she’s steely grey and telling Sam “I. Put. Unexplained ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 344 | Page: 63 | Tags: none

JUDITH WOODS

... feel cheapened and degraded by preferential treatment? Well, sorry, but no. Now equality is all well and good, but would Emily Pankhurst really expect us to eschew a cheap ticket for the footie? And what about if they wanted to deploy the same underhand methods ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1997
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 445 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Sit-in man defends action- Plessey closure ‘like clearances’ =~

... comparative term. There is such a 'thing as natural justice and moral. law. Who' now - thinks ‘that: Emily Davidson or- Emily- Pankhurst, - the - suffragettes; were wrong? -We pass - their statues every day.” . . E Asked if he was prepared to see people ...

Published: Monday 08 February 1982
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 443 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Top table

... women were chosen because they are sex symbols. Could the imaginary host not have invited any from, say, Marie Curie, Emily Pankhurst, Cleopatra, Queen Victoria or Florence Nightingale? The company said it drew up the eight names from an original list ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1999
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 435 | Page: 12 | Tags: none