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'.

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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Hertha Ayrton

Hertha Ayrton

Electrical engineer and suffragist.  Born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsmouth.  Aged 16 began teaching in London.  Studied maths at Girton College Cambridge.  Married William Ayrton in 1885.  Elected ...

Person, Gender Issues, Science

1 memorial
Priscilla Bright McLaren

Priscilla Bright McLaren

Anti-slavery movement and women’s suffrage. Executive member of NUWSS. Priscilla Bright McLaren was an activist who served and linked the anti-slavery movement with the women's suffrage movement i...

Person, Gender Issues, Race Issues, Scotland

1 memorial
Mary Harris Smith

Mary Harris Smith

Accountant. Born in Kingsland, the area around where Dalston Junction station now is. She became interested in accounting by helping her father who was a banker. In 1887 she set up her own accounti...

Person, Gender Issues, Other

1 memorial
Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne

Maud Palmer, Countess of Selborne

Political and women's rights activist. Conservative and Unionist Women’s Franchise Association. Born Marylebone as Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil. 1883 married the Liberal politician William Palmer, ...

Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, South Africa

1 memorial
Catherine Walters (Skittles)

Catherine Walters (Skittles)

"The last Victorian Courtesan". Born Liverpool. Died at home 15 South Street. The Independent says: "Catherine Walters is regarded as the last of the great Victorian courtesans. Lovers were rumoure...

Person, Gender Issues

1 memorial