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Rebel Emma back at council Wolverhampton has honoured tg]e first woman to tread the board of its council ..

... Wolverhampton. Emma Sproson was elected a Labour councillor in 1921 and served for six years. She was a g)erlonal friend of Emily Pankhurst and served three prison sentences in a campaign to get women the vote. She was also well known for forcing an inquiry ...

Published: Friday 29 July 1983
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Tonight's Television and Radio

... photographs. Music. The Suffragettes were led by the Guests appearing in the show will young widow of a lawyer, Mrs. Emily Pankhurst. and her two include several popular recorddaughters, Christabel and Sylvia. Ina stars singing their latest hit They organised ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 1962
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 909 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A LIVELY LOOK BACK ON WOMEN'S LIB

... relates a chapter in women's lib, not in its modern ''see how daring I am image but through that most dramatic period when Emily Pankhurst led the fight for female suffrage. Mr. Cruickshank has enlivened the serious story with songs and oornedy, culminating ...

Published: Wednesday 04 April 1973
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 260 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

IAT k GIRLS' TAKE-OVER BID SUCCEEDS

... group's ci imittee. For too long. the girls had told themselves, the men had held the, reins. True to the tradition of Emily Pankhurst, they decided: It's time for a change. The plotting led to a secret Council-of-War more than six weeks ago. Duplicating ...

Published: Thursday 23 May 1968
Newspaper: Coventry Standard
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

young pupils at &ism to

... were good but you could not hear them. After the hymns Christopher Unwin, Linda Spittle and Wendy Overton told us about Emily Pankhurst and the Suiten Jets (sic) and Robert Peel. Mr. Speed asked us to shoot questions at him and he answered them quite willingly ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1969
Newspaper: Atherstone News and Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 291 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Festival display food `will not be wasted'

... has been . named by the scheme's technical advisor Dr. Richard Pankhurst, a relation of Votes for Women campaigner Emily Pankhurst. He is an authority on African history and is due to visit the N.G.F. she in two weeks to check on progress. A spokesman ...

Published: Tuesday 25 February 1986
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 288 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

WOMEN

... WOMEN THE SOULS of Boadicea, Joan of Arc. Florence Nightingale and Emily Pankhurst must be writhing in torment today. Emancipation has received a setback with the failure of the Archbishops Commission to give a clear answer to the question—Should women ...

Published: Thursday 15 December 1966
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 268 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

M.P.'s visit

... were good but you could not hear them. After the hymns Christopher Unwin, Linda Spittle and Wendy Overton told us about Emily Pankhurst and tit( Suffers Jets (sic) and Robert Peel. Mr Speed asked us to shoot questions at him and he answered them quite willingly ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1969
Newspaper: Coleshill Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 315 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PUBLIC

... us and our, donkeys as still happens in some of the world's wealthier countries. I have the deepest sympathy .for old Emily Pankhurst. She must be turning in her grave to ice the antics oT these bra-less, witless women whir) have thrown away their femininity ...

Published: Friday 08 March 1974
Newspaper: Staffordshire Newsletter
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 420 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

COUNTY

... Oricantied table tennis played In schools. REATER Birmingham Schools Under-15 Rugby New venture ? side, unbeaten since 1963. Emily Pankhurst would, are hopeful of extending surely, be delighted to hear the run In this season. that there Ls to be another The County ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 402 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

MIDLAND SOUTHI 19A

... tennis Proud record played .n schools. GREATER Birmingham 9 Schools Under-15 Rugby 'ew venture side, unbeaten since 1963. Emily Pankhurst would. are hopeful of extending surely. be delighted to heat the run in this season. that there is to be another The County ...

Published: Thursday 15 September 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 406 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

EMMELINE PANKHURST

... in the 1860's with agitation to give women the vote. The couple had three daughters. After her husband's death in 1898 Emily Pankhurst gave all her time to the suffrage movement. She tried to get the politicians of the time to see that it was right that ...

Published: Thursday 18 September 1969
Newspaper: Burton Observer and Chronicle
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 625 | Page: 8 | Tags: none