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HH 55/336 This file includes papers relating to Emmeline Pankhurst's arrest in Glasgow in 1914 and subsequent complaints about police brutality. HH 77 8/15 Papers regarding ecclesiastical buildings, including insurance policy taken out in regards to suffragette attacks on Paisley Cathedral. MW 5/109 Papers concerning the bomb ‘outrage’ at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, and the lengthy and often long-winded correspondence on future security at the site. GD 354/1/25 Correspondence concerning the Royal & Ancient golf club’s precautions against bomb damage in St Andrews, 1913. GD 433/2/339/42 Letter sent by an “anonymous working class woman” and signed ‘cowardly sympathiser.’ Sent to Lady Constance Lytton after her release from imprisonment in 1909 and praising her self-sacrifice. GD 433/2/496 Typescript extracts of conversation between Lady Constance Lytton and Lord Cecil on women’s suffrage, January 1914. JC 26/1551 Correspondence relating to imprisonment of Maggie Moffat of Glasgow WSPU, and later a council member of the Women's Freedom League in Scotland, hereafter WFL.
National Archives of Scotland website: www.nas.gov.uk
National Library of ScotlandThe NLS collection of suffrage material includes issues of the Women’s Freedom League newspaper The Vote, the WSPU’s Votes for Women and the NUWSS’s The Common Cause. It also has copies of the Anti-Suffrage Review and a significant collection of anti-suffrage pamphlets. It holds the papers of the Victorian women's rights campaigner Priscilla Bright McLaren and the WSPU photograph collection of Ellen Gorrie. The National Library of Scotland has, as would be expected, a collection of contemporary and modern suffrage-related books and journals. Additionally, the library published in 1994 a Directory of Scottish Newspapers, an invaluable reference work which lists the newspaper holdings of the National Library and other Scottish libraries. Website: www.nls.uk People’s Palace Collection (Glasgow Museums)One of the most important collections of artefacts relating to women’s history in Scotland has been assembled by the Glasgow Green museum since the 1970s. The People's Palace collection includes spectacular banners and memorabilia from the women’s campaign, and the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women for 1907-08. Papers relating to individual suffragists and various artefacts are also held in the collection. The museum also runs an actress-led workshop for secondary pupils which explores the suffrage question and allows them to participate in a mock suffrage protest meeting. Website: www.glasgowmuseums.com Public Record OfficeA vast archive of Home Office, Metropolitan Police and Prison Commissioners’ files covering the suffrage years are held at Kew, London. These include details of the arrests of Scottish suffragists in London, papers concerning forcible feeding and high-profile campaign incidents, such as Mrs Pankhurst’s arrest in Glasgow in 1914, including the chief arresting officer’s account of the riot which ensued. From time to time the Public Record Office releases hitherto classified documents. In 2006, for example, the PRO released papers suggesting a suffragette plot to shoot Prime Minister Asquith. Website: www.pro.gov.uk SCANThe Scottish Archive Network education microsite is a website which links 52 archive sources throughout Scotland. It is designed primarily as a learning tool for schools and includes a section on Women’s Suffrage in Scotland, with a voice-over by the BBC presenter Kirsty Wark. It also provides information on a range of suffrage archives. Web address: www. scan.org.uk
SCRANAn important subscriber internet database which includes scanned suffrage-related images from museums and archives across Scotland, with explanatory paragraphs and links to their home or exhibiting institution. Colour ‘thumbnail’ pictures are freely provided. The site is strong in material from Dundee City Council’s Voteless not Voiceless exhibition in 2003. Web address: www.scran.ac.uk
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