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PART TWO:

MODERN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE-RELATED ARCHIVES

Note: See also Archives of Individual Suffragists. Examples of guides listed below are held in the Watson Collection.

Argyll & Bute

Extracts from 'Scottish Women and The Vote' in Local History Week, Argyll & Bute Council Library, 1994. Includes early news cutting (1878) of Argyll election, Helen Fraser’s campaign in Rothesay/Dunoon in 1907, WFL activities in Bute in 1914, and extracts from Helen Crawfurd’s c1950 unpublished biography.

Central Region

The archives education officer of the former Central Region council arranged educational resources material for schools, c1994, including women’s suffrage material from Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannan (Stirling Council Archives, Box 8). Copies also with Stirling Libraries and Stirling University.

Discovery – Emmeline Pankhurst

Anon, 1989.

Partwork issued by Marshall Cavendish, No 50 in the ‘travel back in time’ series. Includes reproduction of suffrage ephemera – and ‘pop up’ suffrage march!

Dumfries and Galloway

Women’s Suffrage – a suffrage education pack produced by Dumfries and Galloway Libraries from the Dumfries & Galloway Standard, Moffat News and Wigtownshire Free Press consisting mainly of copied newspaper extracts, including the 1909 classic, ‘Suffragette Invasion of Lockerbie’. (Dumfries and Galloway Libraries, Ref DG (9).)

East Lothian

Folders on ‘Suffragettes’ and on ‘Catherine Blair and Suffrage’. Press cutting scrapbooks, including coverage of Whitekirk Church and Stair House fires in 1914. (East Lothian Local History Centre, Haddington)

Greenock

Greenock and the Suffragettes by Charles McGuire. A local history project based on articles in the local press and possibly linked to an exhibition held in the McLean Museum in 1978. (Inverclyde Libraries, Greenock)

Higher History. Britain and Scotland 1850s-1979

Sydney Wood, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999.

Schools guide which includes Chaper 3, The Issue of Women’s Suffrage and The Coming of Universal Suffrage, a general guide featuring the changing role of women, the pressure for women’s suffrage, the impact of the First World War and the Representation of the People’s Act 1918.

History Intermediate 2 and Higher Course Notes

John Kerr, 2005.

Leckie & Leckie schools’ study guide, with Votes for Women section.

Investigating Suffragettes in the National Archives

Four-page guide to suffrage material held in the National Archives of Scotland, mostly at West Register House. Edinburgh, n.d. c1988. See entry in Major Archives of Suffrage Material.

Mrs Pankhurst – A Famous Suffragette

Tim Vicary. Oxford, 1993.

A heavily illustrated booklet for primary age children – “Mrs Pankhurst and her two (sic) daughters wanted to be able to vote at elections. This is the story of their struggle.”

Scotland 1901-1938

Learning and Teaching Scotland, Glasgow, 2004.

This National Archives of Scotland-led publication includes a useful section on Votes for Women, (pp 19 to 24). Included is Fanny Parker’s account of her force feeding at Perth in 1914 and extracts from the Glasgow riot the same year in which Emmeline Pankhurst was arrested.

Scottish Women and The Vote: A Collection of Source Material on the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage in Scotland

Anon (Strathclyde Regional Council), n.d. c1994.

A significant and excellent resource pack produced by Strathclyde Regional Council education department in 1994. Eighty-eight sections chart the history of the suffrage movement over 224 pages in a loose-leaf A4 folder. Heavy west coast bias, but an indispensable record of primary material. Distributed to most major Scottish libraries at time of issue.

Standard Grade History: Scotland and Britain Since 1930

Sandra Chalmers and Larry Cheyne, Paisley, 2004

Chapter 12, Votes for Women, is a general school-targeted account of the campaign, with questions and activities.