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Dundee, 1912 Short note from a William Dawson of the British Medical Journal, London, to R J. Buist, lecturer in gynaecology at University College, Dundee concerning the forcible feeding of suffragettes, and drawing his attention to an article on the subject in The Lancet. (Dundee University Archives, UR-SF 31/6/2/2)
Dundee, 1913 Undated Dundee Libraries note on ‘suffragette’ fire at Farington Hall, Dundee in 1913. Copy of London Illustrated News photograph of fire. (Watson Collection)
Dundee, 1914 Envelope badly marked by black ink placed by militants in post box, returned in an OHMS envelope from Nottingham, the envelope inscribed in manuscript, ‘Damaged by liquid placed in pillar box.’ Dated on official return envelope 25 July 1914, during period of forcible feeding at Perth Prison and royal visit to Dundee and Perth. Disrupting mail in post boxes by fire or chemicals was a suffragette tactic from 1912 and was the favoured WSPU policy by the start of 1913. The public, however, failed to understand the policy and was largely hostile towards it. (Watson Collection)
Dundee, 1922 Single-page pre-election address by Winston Churchill urging Liberal voters to support his campaign, published somewhat predictably by the Liberal-supporting proprietor of the Dundee Advertiser, Sir John Leng. Churchill, however, was subsequently ousted from his seat of 14 years by Britain’s one and only Prohibition MP Edwin Scrymgeour. (Watson Collection)
Dundee, 1925 Anon. Copy of Dundee Lord Provost’s speech on the occasion of the presentation of the Freedom of the City to Agnes Husband, nd, c1925. Husband was president of the Dundee branch of the WFL, and later a member of the WFL national executive. Also obituary of Husband, May 1, 1929. (Watson Collection)
Edinburgh, 1901 Printed notice of the annual meeting of the Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage, to be held in the Edinburgh Café, 70 Princes Street, in 1901. Speakers to include Louisa and Flora Stevenson. Printed at the Darien Press, Bristo Place. (Edinburgh City Libraries).
Glasgow, 1910 Programme for the WSPU suffrage bazaar and exhibition held at St Andrews Halls, Glasgow, in April, 1910. (People's Palace)
Home Chat magazine, 1911 Four of a series of full-page magazine portraits, with heading ‘Who’s Who in the “Votes for Women” Campaign – a New Series by a contributor who is interested in the Suffrage Movement, but by no means an out-and-out admirer of militant Suffragists and their ways.' Home Chat was a 1d weekly periodical aimed at working-class women. (Watson Collection) i ‘General’ Drummond, July 29, 1911. ii Mrs Despard, Aug 5, 1911. iii Miss Annie Kenney, Aug 12, 1911. iv Miss Christabel Pankhurst, Sept 2, 1911.
Kilmarnock, 1908 Pre-printed postcard of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League, sent from Kilmarnock on December 4, 1908 to H. Crawfurd, Cranfurdland Castle, Kilmarnock and redirected by the postal authorities to Myres Castle, Auchtermuchty, Fife. The sender, the secretary (presumably of the local branch of the anti-suffrage league) states, ‘Very many thanks for the filled-in petition received this morning.’ Curiously, the addressee shares the same initial and surname as Helen Crawfurd, one of the most militant of Scotland’s suffragettes. (Watson Collection)
Lenzie, 1908Lenzie Literary Debating Society cuttings relating to suffrage, 1908. (39 items). (East Dunbartonshire Archives, GD 47/9/11)
Membership card, c1912 Card for Scottish WSPU membership, owned by Jane Parkes, c1912. (People's Palace)
Music, 1911 “The March of the Women.” Copy of sheet music published in 1911. Written by Ethel Smyth as a battlecry for the Votes for Women movement in 1911. Imprisoned in Holloway, Smyth famously formed a women’s choir and conducted it from her prison window with a toothbrush. She became Dame Ethel in 1922. (Edinburgh City Libraries 1820 M13 15036B)
Moorhead, Dr Alice, 1892 Sketch of Dr Alice Moorhead (sister of Ethel). Alice Moorhead, along with Dr Emily Thomson, became in 1891 the first female doctor in Dundee. Dr Moorhead was a pioneering member of Dundee Parish Council and a member of the Dundee branch of the NUWSS. Originally published in The Piper O' Dundee magazine, December 21, 1892. (Copy in WC)
Newsletter Newsletter for the Scottish League for Opposing Women's Suffrage. (People's Palace)
New Year Card, 1910 NWSPU New Year Card bearing words, 'From Prison to Citizenship' 1910. (People's Palace)
Petitions: Airdrie, 1914: A petition thrown by Margaret Maxwell into the carriage of George V during a visit to Airdrie on 11 July, 1914 in opposition to the forcible feeding of suffrage prisoners. It takes the form of a folded, typescript document. According to |