Jessie Hannah Craigen was a working-class suffrage speaker. She was also a freelance (or 'paid agent') speaker in the campaigns for Irish Home Rule and the cooperative movement and against vivisection, compulsory vaccination, and the Contagious Diseases Acts. Her place of birth is uncertain. Died Ilford.
Kate Taylor has an interesting profile of Craigen, including an explanation of the lack of images.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Jessie Craigen
It seems there are no images of Craigen, hence the lack of anything behind th...
Exotic shop dealing in wild animals. It was run by Charles Jamrach, who inherited the business from his father. Known to seafarers throughout the world, they would bring animals from distant lands ...
Greyhound. Born in Killeigh, Ireland. In a career of only three years, he won 61 races, (nineteen of them in a row), including two English Greyhound Derbys. His winning streak ended after suffering...
One of a number of organisations active in the 1920s promoting animal welfare.
Harrow Through Time by Don Walter dates this bucolic image to 1795.
One of the oldest building preservation trusts in the United Kingdom. It was founded by members of the newly-formed Blackheath Society as an independent and separate property company. Its original ...
A 2016 BB2 television series called Black and British - A Forgotten History, traced the history of black people in Britain. Following on from this, a series of plaques are being erected around Brit...
Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878 - 1914, painter, lived and worked here, 1909 - 1912. English Heritage
The sculpture represents Rima, the nature-spirit heroine of Hudson's book "Green Mansions". It caused quite a stir at the time, from the ...
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