Split off from the Women's Social and Political Union where Emmeline Pankhurst held sway.
Worked for equality between men and women. Dissolved in 1961.
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Women's Freedom League
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Women's Freedom League
The Women's Freedom League, founded 1907, worked for equality between men and...
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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
Secretary of Married Women’s Property Committee, Secularist and sexual radical, lived in ‘free love’ union with Benjamin John Elmy (1838 - 1906) who worked closely with her on the campaigns. Only w...
1 memorial
Julia Scurr
Born Julia Sullivan in Limehouse, married John Scurr in 1900. Politically active, campaigning for working women, the unemployed, women's suffrage. 1919 elected to Poplar Borough Council and was imp...
2 memorials
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 ...
1 memorial
Endell Street Military Hospital
Established in the disused St Giles workhouse buildings during WW1 under the command of Dr Flora Murray & Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson (both suffragettes), this 573-bed hospital is the only Briti...
1 memorial
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, economist, advocate of women's rights. Born 13 Rodney Street, Pentonville, son of James Mill. Died in Avignon where he had a house. An exponent of Utilitarianism, a theory developed by...
3 memorials
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29 memorials
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