Group    From 1872  To 1918

Suffragettes

Categories: Gender Issues

The wonderful Spitalfields Life published a map on the East End Suffragette activities. And London Historians has a post 'Parliament and Votes for Women'.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Suffragettes

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LSE buildings renamed after suffrage campaigners

The renaming, reported by The Tab, was to celebrate 100 years since women gai...

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Suffragettes sculpture scroll

This is made of fibreglass finished in cold cast bronze, and the scroll form ...

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Suffragettes - WC2 - new building

We first saw this plaque when it was on the building that used to occupy this...

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Suffragettes - WC2 - previous building

'Lost' in this instance means moved to a different building.

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Other Subjects

Friendly Female Society

Friendly Female Society

From Bridge to Nowhere: "The Female Friendly Society {sic} was started in 1802, by and for women, operating “by love, kindness, and absence of humbug”. It gave small grants to “poor, aged women of ...

Group, Gender Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Nora Maude

Nora Maude

Central Secretary of the Mothers' Union in 1925.  In 1926 was quoted in newspapers as opposed to divorce, supporting a MU decision to deny membership to a divorced woman.

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby

Dame Margery Irene Corbett Ashby

Liberal politician and internationalist. Born East Sussex. Secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and later President of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance. The phot...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Born in Whitechapel. She was the first female doctor to be trained in Britain and went on to promote the medical training of women at a time when medicine was an all-male profession.  Elder sister ...

Person, Gender Issues, Medicine

3 memorials
Christine Murrell

Christine Murrell

Doctor and psychologist. Born 1 Jeffrey's Road, Clapham Road. Set up a private practice in Bayswater with her lifelong partner and friend Dr Elizabeth Honor Bone. First woman to be elected to the C...

Person, Gender Issues, Medicine

1 memorial