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    The WSPU Holloway Banner is a suffragette banner designed by Scottish artist Ann Macbeth. The banner consists of 80 pieces of linen, each embroidered with...
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    Political Union (WSPU). She became Organiser to the London Council of the Women's Freedom League in 1908, following its split from the WSPU. She famously...
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    Britain with the WSPU. Being imprisoned did not stop Burns' activism. From within the workhouse she organized protests with other prisoners. Burns also helped...
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  • presented with an embroidered banner designed by Macbeth. For a 1910 exhibition Macbeth designed the WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner a linen quilt with the embroidered...
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    Hunger Strike Medal from the WSPU on their release. In April 1913, Reginald McKenna of the Home Office passed the Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill...
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    published by the Glasgow branch of the Women's Social and Political Union(WSPU). The poems were collected and edited by Nancy A John, and smuggled out of...
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    and commemoration Holloway Jingles Hunger Strike Medal The Suffrage Oak The Suffragette Handkerchief WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner War Song Justice for...
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  • force-fed. Her signature (E. E. Hesmondhalgh) was embroidered on WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner, one of 80 women who had been imprisoned on hunger strike in...
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    fight for the vote, she was totally opposed to those in the NUWSS and the WSPU who were willing to accept the franchise being given to only certain groups...
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    Adela Pankhurst (category Australian prisoners and detainees)
    worked as a political organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in Scotland. In 1914 she moved to Australia where she continued her activism...
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    The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in...
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  • Prison Holloway. During her time in prison, she contributed to Holloway Jingles, a book of poetry which was published by the Glasgow branch of the WSPU. Her...
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    "Suffragette's Rest" Entry by Marion Wallace Dunlop in Mabel Cappers WSPU prisoners scrapbook June 1909 Article about Dunlop's hunger strike in the 10 July...
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    and commemoration Holloway Jingles Hunger Strike Medal The Suffrage Oak The Suffragette Handkerchief WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner War Song Justice for...
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    whom she had shared a lifelong friendship. Both had been members of the WSPU, and as militant suffragettes had undergone force feeding. They both turned...
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  • on the Roll of Honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 as JC Methuen. Methven was an active member of the WSPU, continuing to write to newspapers, selling...
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  • Elizabeth and Agnes Thomson (category Prisoners and detainees of Scotland)
    in Holloway prison. Elizabeth served a further term in Holloway in May 1912. In April 1913 the "elderly sisters", along with fellow Edinburgh WSPU members...
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    When they were released from Holloway Prison after two months, they were given hunger strike medals 'for Valour' by the WSPU to record their hunger strikes...
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    Social & Political Union in 1907 and established a Glasgow branch of the WSPU. She wrote articles for Forward which was the journal of the Glasgow Independent...
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    and commemoration Holloway Jingles Hunger Strike Medal The Suffrage Oak The Suffragette Handkerchief WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner War Song Justice for...
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    and commemoration Holloway Jingles Hunger Strike Medal The Suffrage Oak The Suffragette Handkerchief WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner War Song Justice for...
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    and commemoration Holloway Jingles Hunger Strike Medal The Suffrage Oak The Suffragette Handkerchief WSPU Holloway Prisoners Banner War Song Justice for...
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  • horse, Drummond was an organiser for the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and was arrested nine times for her activism in the Women's Suffrage movement...
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    demonstration. Later she was sentenced to four months in Holloway Prison in March 1912 after taking part in a WSPU-organised window-smashing raid. Parker joined...
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    Alice Morgan Wright Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst Memorial Holloway brooch Holloway banner Hunger Strike Medal Suffrage jewellery "The Suffragette Handkerchief...
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  • Union. Ker worked with Ada Flatman who was a WSPU employee. Flatman and Patricia Woodlock organised the WSPU shop which raised substantial funds for the...
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    stayed behind with others to repatriate the wounded. Inglis was taken prisoner when at Krushevatz (KruĊĦevac) Hospital in Serbia. Inglis and others were...
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    described as "a tall, dark and handsome lady". She became active in the WSPU and she was arrested for obstruction and she and Olive Fargus were photographed...
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  • Broughty Ferry. In 1906, she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). The following year, she joined the Women's Freedom League (WFL), serving...
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  • business on the Clyde. The earliest evidence of her connection with the WSPU associations in 1906 where she is listed in the postal directory of the time...
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