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Appendix. Outstanding events in the suffragette campaign 1903-1914, in A. Raeburn, The Militant Suffragettes, 1973.
Appendix II. Chart of Major Parliamentary Events, and, Appendix III, Relating to the Women’s Claim to Vote, in Women’s Suffrage and Politics in Britain 1866-1914. Constance Rover.
Appendix 1. Calendar of Events at National Level, and Appendix 2, Women Active in the Movement in Scotland, in Leneman, Leah, A Guid Cause, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland. Aberdeen, 1991
Marlow, Joyce. The Virago Book of Suffragette., Virago 2000 and 2001,
Web-based Archives and Documents
Note: Important web-based archives relating to Scotland are also listed in the Major Archives section. Printed copies of those listed below in WC.
Good history of the suffrage movement in relation to Perth and Perthshire, with image of suffrage banner at Perth Museum.
Records of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Society, 1896-1919. Ref. GB 0106 2/NWS The Women’s Library.
Link to Equal Opportunities Scotland and internet background paper on the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and on women’s political representation in Scotland.
BBC online has featured various 'suffragette' articles, most of which can be found with a keyword search. They include:
The History of the Suffragettes, by Dominic Casciani. Short general article on British movement.
Suffragette Mystery Solved. Anon. Ending of the 90-year mystery of who set fire to Ayr racecourse in 1913. Attributed by Elspeth King to Catherine ‘Kate’ Taylor from Glasgow.
Spy Pictures of Suffragettes Revealed. Anon. Article and photographs released by the National Archives, showing how police spied on suffrage prisoners during the militant campaign. Thought to be the UK’s first ‘spy’ pictures.
Suffragette 'scheme to shoot PM.' Anon. How militant suffragettes allegedly threatened to shoot Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, from material in Public Record Office files.
Virtual gallery with images from Voteless Not Voiceless exhibition in Central Library, Dundee in December 2005. Images include contemporary, photographs, ephemera and news cuttings.
Scottish women’s interests website, including Women and The Scottish Parliament section.
Anonymous review of The Scottish Suffragettes by Leah Leneman.
This website contains a Great Scotswomen section, featuring short biographies with pictures of Ethel Moorhead and Elsie Inglis, among others.
www. gcal.ac.uk/radicalglasgow Website on Glasgow’s political scene, including section on women’s suffrage. Items include useful biography of Helen Crawfurd of the WSPU.
Votes for Women section includes details of the Scottish campaign, significant Scottish activists, photographs, and interactive questions for schoolchildren.
Part of The Women's Library site. It provides a range of images from the internationally-renowned Mary Evans Picture Library. |