13 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b5e9df2258925c4cea7791d6f949fb45.jpg 5a0ac7391f105bc77df36ec44329bf92 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 35 Hertford Place (back of Hertford Terrace) Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation None given Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Annie was born in Coventry in 1864 and her father, Alfred Fridlander, was well known in the city having made his fortune as a watchmaker of some renowned. He was also a director of the Triumph Cycle Co., served Coventry city council for 3 years, was later elected County magistrate and was one of the original founders of the Jewish synagogue in Barras Lane. Annie was an active campaigner for votes for women in the city, joining Coventry Women's Suffrage Society - the local branch of the law abiding National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) led by Mrs Millicent Fawcett. Annie's family were clearly supportive of female suffrage too as on occasion she was accompanied to meetings by both her mother Nora and her father Alfred. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Annie Fridlander Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-169022.80766495835 6873718.594735739) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ed2e25bb912d6816b1fd5ce1966f38d5.jpg 2cf1cadf2e268a73be84a16cebfd602a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 47 & 50 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 16 Styvechale Avenue, Coventry Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation Housewife Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Miss French' appears in the NUWSS newspaper the Common Cause in 1911 at which time she was joint secretary of the Coventry branch with (see) Averal Wilks. At that time Miss French is recorded as living at 'Daisy Bank' Middlesborough Road which was home to Frank Milner French and his sisters Miss Ada and Agnes French. The three were also sister and brother to Mr Edmund Oliver French, a successful Coventry businessman who was also president of the Coventry Liberal Association, later a city councillor and Justice of the Peace. Later in 1911, at the time of the goverment census survey, the siblings and servant Kate, lived at 16 Styvechale Road where Agnes and Ada are recorded as housewives. 'Miss French' is a regular feature at meetings of the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society (the local branch of the law abiding NUWSS) as well as acting for a time as joint secretary. But which Miss French - Agnes or Ada? This is currently unclear but there are later references to the presence of the 'Misses French' at various local women's suffrage events, suggesting both sisters were involved with votes for women campaigning. Ada also sat on Coventry Education Committee between 1921 and 1934. The two sisters were close, remaining unmarried and living together at Styvechale Road until their deaths in 1934 and 1940. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes & Ada French Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-170172.95479277868 6872158.171509816) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/aba8d4bb2c924bab1ab4908c9a007b54.jpg 6a8848b8fc605ca6f40d0f480aee9809 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/73d35e6301576a8926ceaee8496a6b93.png 7b4ca753980ae07a8808d4bebf952c16 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The Courier, 22 Nov, 1911. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/43dbb62ad27ab1d55d081146031aae87.png 6913b793b7312cb0eae005b89a16dc2e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The Midland Daily Telegraph, Dec, 1911. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/965b05f1cc8e3f53750b53b4cccf075e.png 3704f617467d485dc6b76f0f94293e20 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Hannah's entry in the Suffragettes Arrested Index 1906-1914, HO, The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 30 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 Cambridge Street, Coventry Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Occupation None given Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Mrs Hannah Hayward became something of a local celebrity when she was arrested in London in 1911 as part of a planned WSPU rush on the House of Commons. The WSPU organised the demonstration in reaction to the government's pronounced intention to give more votes to men while refusing to include votes for women on any terms. This was contrary to a number of prior promises the government had made. The attempts by suffragettes to rush the House was described as a 'battle' during which 223 women from across the country, including Hannah, were arrested by police. She was taken to London's Bow Street station where she was charged and fined 5s. which she refused to pay. Consequently, Hannah was sentenced to 5 days in Holloway prison for her part in the event. Hannah was a working class woman, married with two children. Her husband was a driller for a motor company and the family lived in a traditional 'two up, two down' terraced house. Therefore, taking part in militant activities for the WSPU and incurring fines and/or imprisonment was a huge risk for Hannah and her family. When she returned home to Coventry, a reception was held in her honour by (see) Percy Widdrington at St Peter's vicarage at which she was lauded for her bravery and where she described her actions and aims in taking part in the rush. She described how at first 'she was alone outside the crowd...but something told her not to play the coward and so she made her way into the middle'. At some point in the melee, she clung onto a policeman's belt saying 'I am not going to be pushed into the crowd. If I go, you go with me'. The police officer arrested her and took her to the station. She claimed he treated her quite well - after she fed him some chocolate! Hannah was grateful to suffragette prisoners who had gone before her (which included fellow Coventry campaigner (see) Alice Lea) for the basic prison rights they had won for women. This she said, made her time there easier and declared that 'women intended to cry day and night unto God until some of the evils were removed' to which winning the vote itself was integral. There is no evidence so far, to suggest that Hannah took part in further suffragette activities. Perhaps her prison experience or the worry it caused her family deterred her from such action again. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hannah Hayward Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-166781.57727884164 6876055.667334137) WSPU Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 22 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Warryalda, Kenilworth Road, Coventry Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Occupation None given Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Miss Kathleen Orton was born in Stanhope, Queensland Australia, where her father worked as a surgeon. Just before moving to Coventry - likely in late 1911 - she had been living with her mother in Cheltenham. Her father was absent and likely still working abroad, although he did spend some time in later years in Bournemouth. Once living in Coventry, Miss Orton in 1912 became organizing secretary for the Coventry Women's Suffrage Society, the local branch of the law abiding NUWSS, working out of offices at 26 Trinity Church Yard. She was likely living by then at 'Warryalda' house on Kenilworth Road, Coventry, where she remained for a number of years. She was still resident there when she became branch secretary for the Coventry branch of the Church League for Women's Suffrage (CLWS) a position she held from 1914 to 1917. Researcher: Tara Morton. Coventry research funded by Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Kathleen Orton Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-171613.0354798594 6869308.936070865) https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7fd68d57d1aa87f9f7d8b3c459b9b9fc.png 6020d028e1dbbeffca4b958c0e961879 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Bermondsey Settlement, Settlement House c. 1903. Source: Harvard Library, HOLLIS HUAM5820soc. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/dfb14e5c5275b734efb333a5fb2266b2.jpg fed0986b962d7940192ea7a0e7c84918 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/98ac3b6e83562d194597969350ebe7b2.jpg 4e68037556589c23a9a0926d5abb60f0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey. Source: Southwark Heritage, Cuming Museum. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3a80abce6047f6a95a0ddb8e720f9011.png 5af4314703d6d372fd79b6b039b6043c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource WFL newspaper 'The Vote' reports on Anna and others resignation from the Women's Liberal Association over the Votes for Women issue. Source: The Vote, 28 Feb, 1913. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ac03448b10aae1d780182bbed179c681.png e01be7e3dff5f22425413dcf334a8a70 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Anna had her goods sold in lieu of unpaid taxes which she refused to pay until women had the vote. Source: The Daily Herald, 5 July, 1913. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Teacher and Social worker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 53 Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Biographical Text Anna was born in 1859 in Cork, Ireland. She gained a Bachelor of Arts degree and by 1901 was living and working in England as a secondary school teacher at the Bermondsey Settlement in Farncombe Street. The Settlement provided social, health, educational opportunities and welfare for the local poor and some housing provision. In 1904, Anna put herself up for election to the local Rotherhithe Board of Guardians and along with Miss Frank (see Maria White Frank) attempted to register on the municipal voter list in Rotherhithe via her occupation of property rented in connection to the Bermondsey Settlement. Her claim was opposed in court by the local Conservative candidate but was none the less granted. Anna’s fight for women’s place at the ballot box had truly begun. As a leading member of the Bermondsey and Rotherhithe Women’s Liberal Association (she was for a time its President) Anna presided over a meeting at the local town hall in November 1908 and gave a speech on the importance of women’s suffrage stating unequivocally that ‘the sooner the question was settled the better it would be for the country, for the women, and she added significantly for the Liberal government’. She would eventually resign from the Association in 1913 over the Liberal government’s recalcitrance on votes for women along with several other members such as treasurer and friend Lucy Knowles who had served as secretary at the Settlement. The women declared that the last three years had proved that ‘as long as Mr Asquith led the Liberal Party, it was hopeless for women to look to it for their enfranchisement’. In 1911, Anna participated in the boycott of the government census survey organised by suffrage society’s like the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) and the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in direct protest at women’s exclusion from the vote. Then living at 63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, and still working at the Bermondsey Settlement as a social worker, Anna wrote on her census form ‘Return refused as a protest against non-representative government. No vote; no census’. She was joined in the protest by fellow residents at Union Road and fellow Settlement workers, Miss Frank and Miss Britten. This type of civil disobedience seemed to appeal to Anna. In July 1913, she had some of her goods sold in lieu of her taxes which she refused to pay until women got the vote. A report on the sale notes that mothers from the Bermondsey Settlement turned out in significant numbers, some with babies in arms, despite the inclement weather to show their support. Anna was represented at the sale by a member of the Women’s Tax Resistance League a suffrage organisation closely aligned to the WFL which in turn was supported by many of Anna’s friends including (see) Ada Salter and was led by another, Charlotte Despard. So, to which suffrage society did Anna belong? This is difficult to determine. At the beginning of the campaign, Anna likely allied herself with the NUWSS, popular among Liberal Party women. She maintained a longstanding relationship with the society through educational lecture tours and was published in its newspaper the Common Cause (see below). Yet, her friendship circle and turn to civil disobedience from 1911 suggests a move towards the WFL. Therefore - circumspectly – Anna currently appears on our 1911 map as a WFL supporter. Formally, she may not have belonged to any suffrage society at that time. However, by 1914, she had become a Vice President of the Free Church League for Women's Suffrage formed in 1910, and later joined the United Suffragists which accepted militants and non-militants alike. Like many campaigners, the picture of Anna’s suffrage campaigning is complex. What is certain, is that Anna was motivated throughout the campaign by her desire to alleviate poverty, particularly for married working women and their children, believing Votes for Women was integral. She wrote several articles and gave numerous speeches entwining the two causes. For example, in 1911 in suffrage newspaper the Common Cause, she published a critique of the Liberal’s government’s Maternity provision within the newly proposed Insurance Bill. This gave control of maternity payments not directly to mothers to use as they saw fit, but to Doctors and Boards of Health instead. In 1913, she gave a speech on the poverty and plight of married working-class women and the importance of the vote to effect change at a drawing room meeting in Rotherhithe; to the Progressive Women’s Suffrage Association in Cambridge; and in a speech entitled ‘Politics and Working Women’ to the Rotherhithe Women’s Political Association which she helped found to educate local women. That same year she also wrote ‘Mothers in Mean Streets’ in which she lambastes the inadequacies of the laws alleged to protect married women. She argues that the ‘semi-slave status’ of the wife under the law is the main cause of poverty and that the political enfranchisement of women would be the first step towards raising women’s status. Anna also forged the connection between improving working-class women’s lot and votes for women in 1914 via a lecture entitled ‘The Mother and her Difficulties: How the Law Treats Her’ given to the Central Sussex Women’s Suffrage Society under the auspice of educational lectures promoted by the NUWSS. In 1922, Anna was still championing working class women’s rights. She published an article in the Women’s Leader newspaper that year which centred on the work of the Rotherhithe Women’s Guild to which she was integral. The Guild continually pressed the concerns of working women on local policy makers and Anna was in no doubt that the Guild ‘owes its origin to the fight for the vote’. Anna died in 1937. Can you help with more information about Anna? Perhaps a photograph of her? If so, do contact us. For background reading on the Bermondsey Settlement with some mention of Anna and her wider publications: Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (2004) & Ellen Ross, Love and Toil: Motherhood in Outcast London, 1870-1918 (1993). Researcher: Tara Morton. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anna Martin Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-6518.123539358456 6709999.205369114) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cf6f088321e7babedbf62838eb058fc8.jpg 2741743a05ae0a705c876667de4e69e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Miss Britten's blank census form for 63 Union Road which she refused to fill in in protest at not having the vote. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Occupation Probably a Social Worker at the Bermondsey Settlement Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unknown Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL? Biographical Text Currently, we know little of Miss Britten other than she was most likely a social worker at the Bermondsey Settlement with her housemates (see) Anna Martin and Maria White Frank and that the three women took part in the suffrage boycott of the government census survey in 1911 in protest at not having the vote. Miss Britten chose to leave her census form blank as did fellow resident Maria White Frank. Like Maria, Miss Britten wrote on the cover instead 'I refuse to fill up form as a protest against a non-representative Government'. The boycott was organised by suffrage societies whose members were often prepared to break the law such as the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). It is suggested here that Miss Britten likely belonged with her housemates to the WFL. Could you shed more light on Miss Britten for our map? If so, please do contact us. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miss Britten Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-6518.123539358456 6709999.205369114) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c720b379e8daad323bba9b61b72e4598.jpg 2741743a05ae0a705c876667de4e69e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Maria evaded the 1911 census and so her form for 63 Union Road is blank - and yet it speaks volumes. Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c251c5d1756b312909e4ca2ed81fde55.png 95c0fd0a8a511654e14c7b1a042a9ad4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Sketch map c. 1903 of how to get to the Bermondsey Settlement in Farncombe Street where Maria and her fellow residents worked. Source: Harvard Library, HOLLIS HUAM5836soc. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/105438f583acc7810dacda300589c7d4.png bee4be3b44ada080f8bd9cf8afadbc6a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Maria's death in 1938 was declared an open verdict. Source: The West London Observer, 11 March, 1938. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 63 Union Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Occupation Social Worker Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 45 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL? Biographical Text Maria was born in 1866 in London - the same year that the first nationally organised petition for female suffrage was handed to parliament by Liberal M.P John Stuart Mill. By 1901, Maria was living in Kent with her sister Edith. The two employed three servants and described themselves as living ‘on own means’ and so were likely in receipt of an annuity from their father, a wealthy merchant. Three years later in 1904, we find Maria working to help those in poverty at the Bermondsey Settlement and occupying a property in Rotherhithe rented in relation to her activities there. This property rental allowed Maria, with fellow Settlement worker (see) Anna Martin, to claim for and successfully win the right to be listed on the municipal voters register that year, despite opposition in court from a local Conservative M.P. By 1911, women’s right to vote was important enough to Maria to take part in the illegal boycott of the government census organised by suffrage societies like the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in protest at women’s exclusion from the franchise. She was then living at 63 Union Road and performed her protest together with fellow residents Anna Martin and Miss Britten. Maria chose to ‘evade’ the census, leaving her form completely blank (see images). However, she did write on the cover, ‘I refuse to fill up form as a protest against a non-representative Government’. We have supposed for the moment on our map, that she was a supporter of the WFL due to her participation in the boycott and the likely societal sympathies of her fellow residents and settlement workers. The following year in 1912, Maria donated £1 in response to an appeal to raise funds for the children of families struggling as a result of a transport workers strike, via the socialist newspaper the Daily Herald, publicly supported by the WFL. We know little else about Maria at present, other than she died in 1938 aged 72 at her later home in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, which she shared with sister Edith. An open verdict was declared on her death which was ascribed to a 60ft fall from a balcony at her home and was suggested by her sister to have been suicide. A brief obituary about Maria refers to her love of painting and her work at the Bermondsey Settlement for which she was clearly well remembered. Can you tell us more about Maria’s life? If so, please contact us. Researcher: Tara Morton. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maria White Frank Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-6518.123539358456 6709999.205369114) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/8e19a477defd41ab6b2242d85d62ed1e.jpg 9dac641560e88022c2dd360da2f55d72 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 14 Gomm Road, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey Occupation Probably Social worker at Bermondsey Settlement Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Unknown Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL? Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Resists Biographical Text Miss Bowers was likely a social worker at the Bermondsey Settlement in 1911. She 'resisted' the government's census survey that year as part of a boycott organised by suffrage societies prepared to break the law like the Women's Freedom League (WFL) and the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in protest at women's exclusion from the parliamentary vote. It's likely Miss Bowers colluded in the census protest with fellow Settlement workers living nearby at 63 Union Road, as their defiant messages and hers 'Not filled in as protest against a non representative Government' are uncannily similar (see census image). She is currently ascribed circumspectly on our map to the WFL along with her fellow 'conspirators'. Do you know anything about Miss Bowers? Could you find more? If so please contact us. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Miss Bowers Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(5954.190131027311 6709184.070968044) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e57e96576c514a5d4f63dab007957cc2.png ca37c9268a3ab950eaa1392eb1c58a5f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: Southwark Local History Library and Archive, Wellcome Images. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5f883ab178c6497608b9ce1320b7d558.jpg 2be7e333f11356838e9fc6e146e13e73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9b6ec2d1d2a90deda1c469992957c829.png f30e0dee4364031c2475e43f7d22aa3f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Bermondsey Settlement circa 1903 (Women's Houses for residents). Source: Harvard Library, HOLLIS HUAM5899soc. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/efe730179db9561e7868db1c0be21b67.png ef0f954f8413954a1fe0691f0a9c9509 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Ada's statue on the docks. Source: Lynn Morris. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Social Worker/Politician/Pioneer of Ethical Socialism Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 44 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Married Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 5 Stork's Road, Bermondsey, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WFL Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Ada was born into a well to do Methodist farming family in Raunds, Northamptonshire in 1866. A champion of ethical socialism, she left the comfort of Raunds as a young woman to work in the slums of St. Pancras as a Sister of the People to improve the lives of working women and their families. She later transferred to the Bermondsey Settlement where she ran several Working Girls Clubs and other community initiatives for the poor. It was there that she met her husband Alfred a medical doctor and the two married in 1900. Ada aligned herself with the radical wing of the Liberal Party, but she left in 1906 when it failed to honour its promises on votes for women, joining the Independent Labour Party (ILP) instead. She became deeply involved in the work of the ILP, a party that organised emancipation in the factories and on the streets. She was enthused by the ‘real business’ of ‘practical socialism’ and in that same year helped found and lead the Women’s Labour League. When it formed a year later in 1907, Ada supported the Women’s Freedom League (WFL) a Votes for women society led by her friend and fellow poverty campaigner Charlotte Despard. Ada eschewed the more violent tactics of Mrs Pankhurst’s WSPU. In 1909, Ada became the first woman Councillor in London, and with husband Alfred, she helped lead the ‘Bermondsey Uprising’ in 1911 when the working population of Bermondsey went on strike for better working conditions. Ada’s recruitment of 14,000 local women into the National Federation of Women Workers led by Mary Macarthur was instrumental. Ada did not take part in the suffrage boycott of the census that was also organised in 1911 to protest at women not having the vote and endorsed by the WFL. The reasons are unclear why she complied, but many women like Ada who campaigned for better living conditions in poor areas believed women should fill in the census because its details helped reveal the true state of overcrowding and infant deaths for example. The couples census form also reveals the tragic loss of their own daughter Joyce to scarlet fever. Interestingly, Ada's husband Alfred lists Ada on the census as simply a ‘housewife’ - yet she was so much more. Ada also became the first woman Mayor in London in 1922. As Mayor of Bermondsey, she steadfastly refused to wear the mayoral regalia, nor acknowledge Royal ceremonial occasions. Neither would she fly the Union Jack on Bermondsey Town Hall; instead, she chose to fly the red flag of socialism, emblazoned with the Bermondsey heraldic symbol. Ada believed strongly and campaigned throughout her life for the development of co-operatives, green spaces, universal suffrage, free school meals, free national health service, slum-clearance and humane working conditions. During her time in office, she planted thousands of trees in Bermondsey to improve the air quality, developed green spaces, planted municipal flower beds, had well-designed social housing built, communal laundries, clinics, swimming pools and a solarium. As pacifists, she and Alfred turned to Quakerism and both passionately spoke out against WW1 and then WW2, which they saw as an inevitable consequence of the injustices of the Versailles Treaty towards Germany. Ada is only the 15th woman in London to be accorded a statue. Her figure (as part of Dr Salter’s Daydream group sculpture, situated by the Thames in Bermondsey) marks her work as a woman trade unionist, a woman environmentalist, a Quaker, and a woman politician. Contributed by: Lynn Morris, playwright and performer inspired by Ada's story (www.journeymentheatre.com) Sources and further reading: Ada Salter: Pioneer of Ethical Socialism by Graham Taylor (Lawrence and Wishart 2016) Under Salter Lectures, there is a full transcript of Lynn Morris’s one woman play about the life of Ada Salter called ‘Red Flag Over Bermondsey’ at https://quakersocialists.org.uk/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ada Salter Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-7163.520551040778 6709422.736140364) WFL https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/dbfff829480660dcc09bdfcdad884da1.png 00a270a758b5bdcf914c720fb0dc3dc6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Hilda's warrior-like Joan of Arc design for the later WSPU newspaper The Suffragette. Source: The Victoria and Albert Museum (E.648-1972). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4e67183a8c47a1197cf0eff74d86daa2.png 39704eed22a394c1ccbea234646ae42d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Hilda Dallas WSPU Christmas card design, 1911. Source: Museum of London (50.82/853). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c4ff7eca84d03cc827df60500ce63fee.jpg b2987bd2f921520d468a9eded5e9e192 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Hilda's designs like this one often featured in the WSPU's newspaper Votes for Women. Source: Votes for Women 2 August, 1912. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2603d4383cb88e32b3d59a55b6f02ff6.png da5851ecf8d7c3eca7d2bbb5858a6ba2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource A late 1920's costume design by Hilda for a stage play. Source: Victoria and Albert Museum (s.558-1987). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Artist Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 33 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 35 St George's Mansions, Red Lion Square, Holborn, London. Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Hilda Mary Dallas was born in Japan in 1878 to British parents and had two surviving siblings – a sister Irene and brother William. Her father Charles taught English in Japan and was renowned as an excellent linguist. Exactly when Hilda returned to England is not entirely clear but by 1901/2 she was enrolled in classes at the Slade School of Art in London. There is nothing to suggest she ever rented a studio and so, like many women artists, likely worked from home. Her commercial portfolio is scant, but she did hold numerous exhibitions with the Allied Artists Association and later with the Society of Women Artists. However, it was in 1909 when her sister Irene was imprisoned for trying to speak with the prime minister, that the two sisters became involved with the WSPU. Hilda who was described as ‘a handsome fair-haired girl’ became the WSPU organizer for South St Pancras and also lent her artistic skills to the WSPU. She designed two striking WSPU posters between 1910 and 1912 and in 1911 produced a WSPU Christmas card (see image). That same year, when the government census survey was taken, the Hilda and her sister were absent from their flat at 35 St George’s Mansions and so, as they are not recorded anywhere else, they were likely participating in the WSPU boycott of the 1911 census by evading. The area where the mansions were has been substantially redeveloped. The following year when there was a split within the WSPU which saw the Pankhursts launch a new newspaper called The Suffragette, Hilda produced a poster for it. The design depicted a Joan of Arc warrior-like figure holding a pennant with WSPU written across it (see images) and was used on other WSPU items such as badges and postcards. During the First World War, Hilda likely became a pacifist and a Christian Scientist. She also turned her hand to stage set and costume design one of which is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum (see images). Hilda and her sister Irene lived together in London for the remainder of their lives until Hilda’s death in 1958. Source: Elizabeth Crawford, Art and Suffrage: A Biographical Dictionary of Suffrage Artists (Francis Boutle, 2018). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hilda Dallas Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant ||||osm POINT(-13196.491485691522 6713609.149184717) WSPU