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Guardian, December 11, 1974. Review of Feminist magazines. By Geoffrey Sheridan. Important survey of the magazines – Link, Red Rag, Shrew, Socialist Woman, Spare Rib, Women’s Report and Women’s Voice. The review was completed by the magazines themselves, and provides circulation figures, objectives, etc.
The Times, June 16, 1975. Women’s Movement, The Road to Liberation. Anon. A comprehensive narrative of the women’s movement.
Guardian, December 12, 1976. Disaster Shelved. By Janet Watts How the Fawcett Society library of books, pamphlets and cuttings, for a while threatened with dispersal, was saved. It is now, of course, the backbone of The Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University.
Dundee Evening Telegraph, January 12, 1978. Past Personality Series. By Isabella Carrie. In old age, Carrie recalls her days as a militant, ejected at Churchill meeting, provider of ‘safe’ house, etc.
Daily Record, July 3, 1978. Suffrage – 50 Years On. By Grace Franklin. Background to Edwardian struggle, with quotes from contemporary politicians and Elspeth King, then of People’s Palace Museum, Glasgow.
Sunday Mail (The Story of Scotland, part-work, Vol 4, Part 44, 1988). A Hard-Won Right. By Rosalind Marshall. Four-page article on women’s movement with emphasis on militant era.
Dundee Courier, May 6, 1989. Memories of a suffragette. Anon (Norman Watson) Interview with Agnes Stephen. Then 96, Miss Stephen recalled the activity in Dundee during the ‘Winston Churchill’ by-election of 1908 and Emmeline Pankhurst’s arrival on the back of a cart in Broughty Ferry. “That very first meeting was enough to convince me. I stepped forward and shouted, ‘Yes, I’ll join you!’ That same night I joined the Women’s Freedom League.”
Glasgow Herald, January 22, 1990. The Unknown Heroines. By Leah Leneman and William Hunter. Leneman looks at the rifts that developed in the early years of the Scottish suffrage campaign. Hunter examines the closure of the Singer sewing machine factory in 1911.
Scotland on Sunday, June 30, 1991. Arson and old lace. Ajay Close. Review of Leah Leneman’s A Guid Cause, mainly focusing on militant activity, 1912-14.
The Times, July 12, 1993. Why The Suffragettes Failed. By Brian Harrison. Harrison argues that the 1918 enfranchisement of women came about not because of their campaign or war work, but because of the post-war need for political stability.
The Orcadian, November 18, 1993. Suffering Suffragettes: How Orkney’s Women Won the Vote. By Emile Flett.
Glasgow Herald, March 7, 1995. To Light a Dark Corner. By Anvar Khan. General article on Scottish women to tie in with the launch of a new information plaque on a tree planted by Glasgow suffragists in 1918.
Scotland on Sunday, February 2, 2003. Scotland’s Forgotten Sisters. Anon. Feature on suffrage campaign in Scotland and its significant figures. Provides suffragette ‘timeline’ of notable events.
The Scotsman, October 10, 2003. The Wayward Suffragette, by Fran Abrams. Extracts from Abrams' book Freedom's Cause: The Lives of the Suffragettes, concerning Adela Pankhurst's activities in Scotland and her arrest in Dundee in 1909.
Daily Mail, October 16, 2003. The Pankhursts’ Sexual Terrorism. By Melanie Phillips. Phillips claims that Christabel (‘dazzling pin-up’) and Emmeline (‘charm and grace’) used their womanly attributes to mesmerise militant sisters-in-arms.
Guardian, July 25, 2004. By Gabby Hinsliff. Article explaining the Scottish-led campaign to win support for a posthumous pardon for suffragists imprisoned during the militant campaign, and reporting how the then Home Secretary David Blunkett had agreed to instruct officials to look at a way of commemorating the women’s struggle.
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