BBC Scotland. Catalogue papers for The Scottish Suffragettes, BBC radio series, 2004, presented by Jackie Bird. (Copy in WC along with BBC CD of series)

Dundee. Flyer and programme for Bonnie Fechters, a ‘suffragette’ community drama presented at Dundee Repertory Theatre in April 2002. The play was described as “an exhilarating hurl through the radical history of Dundee women’s civil disobedience.” (WC)

Dundee. Draft booklet for proposed Dundee Women’s Achievement Trail. n.d. c2000, by Mary Henderson. Includes entries for Agnes Husband of Dundee WFL and later the executive committee of the WFL, Ethel Moorhead and a short summary on ‘The Suffragettes’. (WC)

Dundee. Anon. Churchill in Bank Street. How he came to Dundee, n.d. c1960. Two-page typescript describing Winston Churchill’s selection for Dundee in 1908 and his impact in the city. (WC)

Dundee: Promotional material, including posters and flyers, from Voteless not Voiceless exhibition, Dundee Libraries, December 2005. (Dundee Central Libraries)

Pankhurst Trust. Newsletter of the Friends of the Pankhurst Centre, Manchester, January, 1987. Group established to restore the Pankhurst home in Manchester. Provides details of suffrage exhibitions and contains important notes on the creation of the Feminist History Network. (WC)

Scottish Committee, Women’s Suffrage 50th Anniversary, 1968. Papers, committee minutes, correspondence, arrangements for celebratory lunch, accounts, etc. (National Library of Scotland ACC 9114)

Scottish Council of Women Citizens Associations, nd 1968. Handbook produced by the Scottish Council of Women Citizens Associations. Undated, probably issued for golden jubilee in 1968. Traces roots to suffrage movement and provides excellent list of WCA activities and campaigns. (Watson Collection) Note: The archives of Women Citizens Associations, formed in 1918, with many suffrage sympathisers in their ranks, hold valuable comment on women’s rights from the enfranchisement campaign period. Surviving records in Scotland include:

Arbroath WCA (still with branch, last remaining in UK)

Dundee WCA (Dundee City Archives)

Edinburgh WCA (National Archives of Scotland, GD 333)

Falkirk WCA, 1921-26, (Falkirk Council Archives, A660)

Glasgow WCA (University of Strathclyde Library, D324.309411)

Scottish Council of Women's Citizens Association (NAS, GD 1/1076)

Scottish Parliament. Artists’ brief and qualifications for suffrage sculpture commission, 2005. Includes other ephemera relating to official unveiling of sculpture, December, 2006, and 'Votes for Women' exhibition in Scottish Parliament, 2006-07. (Watson Collection)

Watson, Norman. The Male Suffragettes – Scotland’s Story. Unpublished lecture notes, c2002. (Watson Collection)

Modern Correspondence

Note: Arranged in date order. All in WC.

Jan 1996. Copy of a letter from Isabel Jacob, Oswestry, Shropshire, concerning family member Lila Clunas, enclosing copy of The Story of our Suffragette Ancestor Maggie Clunas, as told by my cousin Grace Clunas and recorded by my sister Kathleen. (Maggie Clunas, from Dundee chained herself to railings in Downing Street, among other activities, and was known as Lila Clunas.)

July/Aug. 2002. Correspondence from Robina Anne Brewster of Southampton concerning ancestor Edith Bessie New and her militant activity in Dundee in 1909, when she featured in the first imprisonments in Scotland and the first hunger strikes. New, a WSPU organiser who also served sentences in Holloway, was the first militant (with Mary Leigh) to use stone throwing as a political weapon.

2004. Correspondence with Thomas McFarlane with reference to police records concerning suspicious fires, alleged to have been perpetrated by suffragettes, at three Perthshire mansions in February 1914.

2005-2006. Extensive correspondence with the niece of Arabella and Muriel Scott relating to the sisters’ campaigning activities in Scotland and England, and Arabella’s five weeks of forcible feeding at Perth Prison.

2005-2006. Extensive correspondence (with UK Home Office, Scottish Executive, MPs and MSPs) and news cuttings, concerning campaign to win posthumous pardon for suffragettes imprisoned between 1905-1914.