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Votes for Women

LSE History gives: "... Frederick and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, who owned and edited the WSPU newspaper Votes for Women. Founded in 1907, Votes for Women was printed at the St Clement’s Press on Clare Market until 1912. St Clement’s Press is the St Clement’s Building and Waterstones Economists’ bookshop on Clare Market."

The Titanic sank in 1912 when the campaign for 'Votes for Women' was at its height. In a Guardian article on 30/3/13 Jeanette Winterson wrote “After Titantic sank, with its too few lifeboats and women and children first policy, the popular press ran a series of anti-suffrage stories called Votes or Boats. "When a woman talks women's rights let her be answered with the word Titanic – nothing more, just Titanic."

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Votes for Women

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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

Relocated to a different building.

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Votes for Women campaign hommage

The mural was due to be completed in 2018, to mark the centenary of votes for...

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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
Leonard Montefiore

Leonard Montefiore

Author and philanthropist. Leonard Abraham Montefiore was born Kensington.  Grand nephew to Moses.  Was a friend of Oscar Wilde when they were both at Oxford University.  Chief assistant to Samuel ...

Person, Gender Issues, Philanthropy, USA

1 memorial
Helena Swanwick

Helena Swanwick

Feminist and pacifist. NUWSS, editor of Common Cause, internationalist, pacifist. Mainly metropolitan based. Born in Munich as Helena Maria Lucy Sickert, sister to Walter Sickert.  Married the Man...

Person, Gender Issues, Peace, Germany

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
Gay Liberation Front

Gay Liberation Front

By 1973, GLF had effectively dissipated and had given way to its spin-off organisations.

Group, Gender Issues

2 memorials