15 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d6430285820a2cda8387838eaf55b2a7.JPG 3d49b41ee8303561af91781320fd7cd0 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 Gertrude Howey, 1908. Source: Museum of London, ID. 53.140/144. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/554f32f5cdbc7ff0e518f0d85b967897.JPG cfea111ff381df51fa718e40f11fe27e 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 Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 57 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 Holly Lodge, Cradley, Malvern 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 Gertrude Howey (1853-1942) was the mother of Mary and Elsie Howey, and was herself a suffragette. She lent a caravan to the WSPU for their summer tour in 1909, and spoke at meetings in Cornwall and elsewhere. She contributed to and ran one of the stalls at the WSPU Bazaar in spring 1909. Gertrude evaded the government census in 1911, but is noted on the summary sheet (see image). Mary Howey, her daughter, completed the form but resisted with a 'Votes for Women' slogan. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser Clare Wichbold, MBE. See also Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (Routledge). 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 Gertrude Howey 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(-258541.08693620883 6824086.783521306) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a8f1135715832a592f456e56dd3e984f.JPG 46a707732a5ab9530a1065304f5a99bf 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 Mary Howey circa 1908-1914. Source: Museum of London, ID 53.140/130. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ee8280ea5ddc8b7aba92e42c2d942555.jpg d2b86cc15eb448a33fb598823cb06a3f 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 Occupation Artist and Suffragette Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 28 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 Holly Lodge, Cradley, Malvern 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 Resists Biographical Text Mary Gertrude Oldfield Howey (1882-1967) was the older sister of Elsie Howey, one of the most prominent militant suffragettes. She was born in Finningley, Yorkshire, where her father was vicar. Mary was a delegate at the Caxton Hall Parliament of Women and campaigned in the south west of England. She was arrested in 1908 and subsequently planted a tree at Annie's Arboretum in Bath and was photographed by Colonel Blathwayt with Elsie in 1909. Her mother (see) Getrude and sister Elsie evaded the government's 1911 census survey, but Mary resisted writing "Votes for Women" in large capital letters on the census form, and described herself and Gladys Pritchard her servant as "not franchised". Interestingly, she wrote this in the column designated for 'Infirmities'. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser Clare Wichbold, MBE. Sources: see: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/bio-mary-howey 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 Mary Howey 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(-258541.08693620883 6824086.783521306) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c7c08233f5ab37e58b7e0c80ceabf315.png 4febc738429f396223f5eabe3d7b9de4 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 Elsie Howey in 1909. Source: Bath in Time Archive. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/ce1e225f608570b5fe40ab404c7458ed.png 6eccf20e75214c078af989b87338c77b 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: Elsie Howey, 1909. Courtesy The National Archives Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 26 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 WSPU Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Evades Biographical Text Elsie Howey was the daughter of a clergyman. She was born in Finningley, South Yorkshire, in 1884 but the family moved to Malvern after her father’s death in 1887. Her sister (see) Mary Howey was also a suffragette. She attended the University of St Andrews, studying English, French and German between 1902-1904. In February 1908 Elsie was arrested, along with her sister Mary, for taking part in a demonstration outside the House of Commons. She was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. In May 1908, she campaigned with Annie Kenney and Mary Blathwayt at a by-election in Shropshire. Elsie was arrested for the second time after taking part in a demonstration outside the home of Herbert Asquith. She was sentenced to three months' imprisonment. Others called her “a wonderful speaker”, but eventually her voice was damaged due to forced feeding when on hunger strike during a prison term. Elsie went to work for the WSPU in Bristol. Whilst there, she and Vera Holme hid in a large pipe organ at Colston Hall to disrupt a political meeting calling ‘Votes for Women‘ from the organ but no-one could discover where the sound was coming from. In 1909, Howey rode as Joan of Arc (see image) at the head of the procession to welcome Mrs Pethick-Lawrence on her release from Holloway Prison. Together with Vera Wentworth and Jessie Kenney, Elsie also assaulted Herbert Asquith and Herbert Gladstone on a golf course. She was criticised for this attack by WSPU supporter and the owner of Eagle House in Bath who wrote to Christabel Pankhurst that Elsie and Vera would no longer be welcome there. Eagle House belonged to the Blathwayt family and was used as a refuge by numerous suffragettes on the run from police or recovering from their treatment during terms of imprisonment. He wrote that "an attack on one undefended man by three women was an act I did not expect from the Society". Elsie had planted a tree there on 9 May, 1909. In January 1910, Constance Lytton was imprisoned and forcibly fed at Walton Gaol. In response, Howey broke the gaol governor's windows so that she too would be jailed in support. She was arrested again in 1910, in Penzance, and was on hunger strike for 144 hours. In total, she was arrested six times. It took her four months to recover from throat injuries caused by forced feeding carried out to undermine her hunger striking. It appears that Elsie evaded the government's 1911 census being absent from her family home at Holly lodge. Like many suffragettes, her life and living arrangements at this time were transient. Elsie continued her militant campaign. Her final arrest, in 1912, resulted in all her teeth being broken. In June 1913, Elsie again played the role of Joan of Arc at the funeral of Emily Wilding Davison.  Elsie died on 13 March 1963 at the Court House Nursing Home, Court Road, Malvern after a lifetime of illness. Source: https://suffragettestories.omeka.net/bio-elsie-howey & Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (Routledge). Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser, Clare Wichbold MBE. Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Holly Lodge, Cradley, Malvern 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 Elsie Howey 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(-258541.08693620883 6824086.783521306) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c0431293dce796141fc8e613969722a7.jpg a1b2d755d53e5c1c6d7abd2aedf3f178 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 Castle Cliffe, Hereford. Source: Clare Wichbold. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a5f887a826325518063d85c2a6746ece.jpg 3d1fe8b4128a152f6544b2392492b11b 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 Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 38 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 Castle Cliffe, Castle Green, Hereford 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 Beatrice Parlby (1874-1952) was a schoolteacher by training, but her mental health meant that she had to give up her teaching work. She remained in Hereford for the rest of her life. One of four sisters - who apparently all played some part in the suffrage campaign - Beatrice was the leading light. She campaigned for women's suffrage locally, was an accomplished public speaker, and hand wrote all her speeches which are held in the Herefordshire Archives. She corresponded with well known figures of the movement such as the WSPU leader Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and Gladice Keevil to help coordinate their visits to Hereford. Beatrice was living with her family in 1911 and was included on the 1911 census form. However, this does not mean she necessarily wanted to comply given she was a WSPU member. The census form was completed and signed by her father who may have taken matters into his own hands. Source: Parlby Papers Collection, BH28, Herefordshire Archives & Records Centre. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser, Clare Wichbold MBE. 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 Anne Beatrice Parlby 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(-301769.317248082 6809509.653927945) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b45a05b4a49aef37b39ab6a1caf2ea22.jpg 58ee7e7817cc2eab3c1f1503546197d8 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 Occupation Private means Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 42 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 The Moor House, Widemarsh Common, Hereford 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 Mabel Chave was the daughter of local chemist William Chave who ran a shop in Broad Street in Hereford. She was born in 1869 and had an elder sister Florence, who does not appear to have played a part in the women's suffrage movement. Mr Chave went on to be elected to the town council in 1886, became mayor in 1891, and a JP in 1893. He died in 1909 and it appears Mabel started campaigning for women's suffrage after his death. She is mentioned in the NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause in 1912, alongside (see) Reverend George and Ethel Davis. She also became a member of the Church League for Womens Suffrage in 1912. Mabel complied with the census in 1911, describing herself as being of "private means". She died in 1920, leaving over £3,000 to her sister. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser Clare Wichbold, MBE. 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 Mabel Chave 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(-302884.8609971152 6811806.451546717) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/09664fd6209fcbe26ef5085933f3e8dc.jpg 9a538d9da8f8a089acf5238eb9c685c6 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 Occupation Gentlewoman Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 48 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 12 College Cloisters, Hereford 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 The only child of Reverend William Duncombe to reach adulthood, Isabel, her mother Isabelle and her father William, were all involved in suffrage campaigning in Hereford. Isabel and her family lived alongside the suffrage campaigners (see) Rev George Davis and his more militant wife Ethel Davis in The Cloisters. However, Isabel appears to have been a law abiding suffragist having membership of the NUWSS. She is found contributing to the NUWSS Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage, where women walked to London from all over the country, with her father in the NUWSS newspaper The Common Cause in 1913. She supported local campaigning for women's suffrage during the Hereford by-election in March 1912, working alongside (see) Mabel Chave and the Davis's. Isabel complied with the 1911 census, describing herself under occupation as a "gentlewoman". Her mother died in 1918, and Isabel and her father then moved to Cheltenham. She never married and died in 1947, leaving £18,000 in her will. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser, Clare Wichbold MBE. 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 Isabel Irene Mary Duncombe 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(-302289.898713586 6809821.534824801) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a04a5ba89f5b22f285e6c91a6dbfcc12.JPG 771ea93d8d90f92cd4148025dd25f415 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 John Percival. Source: Postcard, private collection, Clare Wichbold. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/88abd4a608aafe247c2f84ecf192d316.JPG 80f549af0a2d8cbb9c6e71d82ddc04c9 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 John Percival's home at The Palace, Hereford (entrance). Source: Clare Wichbold. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d990daf5348fb6c45c1ebb938645449b.JPG 34b69085527b42bfb456669bd8e2e4c6 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 John Percival's home at The Palace, Hereford. Source: Clare Wichbold. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7600554881e4c82a42f20662baff12cc.jpg c40001d8039faf48348f3b90a3bd3d02 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 Occupation Clergyman Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 76 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 The Palace, Hereford Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text John Percival (1834-1918) hailed from Westmorland. He studied theology at Queen’s College Oxford and spent many years in education, including as the first Head Teacher of Clifton College, Bristol, and Headmaster of Rugby School. Married in 1862, he and his first wife Louisa had eight children. Percival championed the cause of women’s rights throughout his teaching career. He was involved in the foundation of Somerville Hall (now Somerville College, Oxford) in 1879. In 1888 he appointed Marie Beauclerc to teach shorthand to boys at Rugby School, the first woman to hold such a teaching post. He became Bishop of Hereford in 1895 and was widowed the following year. He found working in a large rural diocese with very conservative views a struggle. However, together with other liberal clergymen, Bishop Percival expressed support for women’s suffrage in print and at meetings. He remarried in 1899 to Mary Georgina Symonds from Oxford. As bishop of Hereford, his usual address was The Palace, Hereford where he is located on the map. However, in 1911 Bishop Percival was visiting Much Wenlock when the government census survey was taken, staying at the Vicarage with the Reverend Edwin Bartlett. Mrs Percival was visiting her sister in Oxford and also completed the census. Bishop Percival was active in condemning the forced feeding of women prisoners, and again spoke out for those detained under the so called ‘Cat and Mouse’ Act or The Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill-Health) Act 1913. This allowed the authorities to release hunger strikers until they had regained their health, then re-arrest them in a continuous cycle. He was a member of the Church League for Womens Suffrage, named in the list of clergymen printed in the June 1912 CLWS newspaper. In February 1914 he added his name to the long list of clergymen who wrote in support of the women’s suffrage petition and voted in support of Lord Selborne’s Bill for the enfranchisement of women in June 1914. Bishop Percival later became a vice president of the CLWS, but the loss of his son Lt-Col. Arthur Jex-Blake Percival early in World War I was a severe blow. He became an ardent pacifist and found his views increasingly at odds with the established church. Bishop Percival retired in 1917, and moved to Oxford, where he died the following year. He was buried at Clifton College in Bristol. Source: Oxford DNB. Contributed by Herefordshire community fundraiser Clare Wichbold, MBE. 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 John Percival 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(-302405.29782127746 6809815.126378191) CLWS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/510da0ca61dc5d648456c2e6ed99a6f7.jpg cede895aa89a7551b8100bea13702f33 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 Arrest of Grace Roe featured in the Daily Mirror, 1914. Source: Museum of London collections. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/43dcf63da17a3598ab72198812fbb592.jpg 63893e2250a72c53c353025fd961909d 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 Grace Roe's hunger strike medal awarded by the WSPU. Source: Image taken by Hilary McCollum with permission from the Women's Library (LSE). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5d0b2306362f4b57eb2c6ed9b85971a5.jpg 7e28dc3de6ba37bdeb87610b1a60698b 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 Grace Roe was not present at her lodgings in Ipswich when the census was taken and so was probably evading as part of the suffragette boycott. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU organiser Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 25 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 19/21 Silent Street, Ipswich. 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 Grace Roe was born into a prosperous Anglo-Irish family in London in 1885. Her mother died when she was twelve and she was sent to Beadles boarding school. She became a vegetarian in her teens and remained one throughout her life. Grace was captivated by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst’s daughter, Christabel Pankhurst, when she heard her speak in Hyde Park on 21 June 1908. She remembered thinking, “That’s the woman I’m going to follow.” She joined the movement a few months later and became one of Christabel’s most trusted confidants. Her first arrest came during the Great Deputation to the House of Commons on 29 June 1909, but she wasn't prosecuted. In 1910, she became the WSPU’s first organiser in East Anglia based in Ipswich and built up the membership with a series of headline speakers, including Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Grace likely took part in the suffragette boycott of the government’s 1911 census survey as she is not recorded at the address in Ipswich where she was boarding with a family of printers (see census image) and is not recorded anywhere else. In September 1912, Christabel Pankhurst sent Grace to Dublin to secure the release of suffragettes Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans, who were on hunger strike after being imprisoned for attempting to set fire to a Dublin theatre. Following her success in Dublin, she took charge of the WSPU campaign during the Bromley and Bow by-election when George Lansbury stood unsuccessfully as a woman's suffrage candidate. Sylvia Pankhurst criticised Grace’s approach to the by-election, especially her decision not to give over control of WSPU resources to the Labour Party. In January 1913, Grace Roe became deputy to Annie Kenney, who had been appointed the WSPU’s Chief Organiser after Christabel Pankhurst went into exile in France in March 1912. When Annie Kenney was arrested on 8 April 1913 on charges of conspiracy to commit arson, Grace took over as Chief Organiser. She was wanted by the police but managed to evade arrest during the police raid on WSPU headquarters on 30 April 1913. She made sure the WSPU weekly paper, by then named The Suffragette, still appeared that week with the front cover announcing, “Raided”. She lived in hiding for the next year, often dressing as a chorus girl to avoid capture, during which time she oversaw the conduct of the arson campaign and protests against the Cat & Mouse Act (see our Suffrage Glossary). She helped organise Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral in June 1913, which was regarded as a propaganda triumph and established The Bodyguard to provide security at rallies, protect the leadership from arrest and help suffragettes to escape. On 23 May 1914, Grace Roe was arrested. She went on hunger strike and was forcibly fed. Grace was still in prison when Britain declared war on Germany that year. She was released under a government amnesty for suffragettes and played an active part in promoting women’s employment in industry as part of the war effort, also criticising labour unrest. After the war, she lived for a time with Annie Kenney before settling in America with Christabel Pankhurst. They went their separate ways in 1925 but remained close. Grace was Christabel Pankhurst’s executor and arranged for her memoir to be published after Christabel died. In an interview in 1974, she said that “Christabel was the apple of my eye.” Key sources: Interview with Antonia Raeburn for the BBC, see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/womans-hour-grace-roe/z7vcnrd; Interview with Brian Harrison, held by the Women's Library at LSE; Antonia Raeburn, 'Militant Suffragettes'; Elizabeth Crawford, 'The Women's Suffragette Movement'; Annie Kenney, 'Memories of a Militant'; Andrew Rosen, 'Rise Up Women!'; Christabel Pankhurst, 'Unshackled: the Story of how we Won the Vote'; Sylvia Pankhurst, 'The Suffragette Movement' Votes for Women, 20 September 1912 (re Dublin). Contributed by: Writer, Hilary McCollum. 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 Grace Roe 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(128394.34186463468 6810148.118883343) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/56fd3ae9fe55a0f4fc97e1db271336f0.png d543360f98c62561ffac400bf1ac4549 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 Laura Ainsworth in 1911. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f32a89e595631c7a84081fa8b2ec0cac.jpg 227030a6e9254a1c3699ac3def4e7d00 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 The 1911 census form for 32 Stuart Road, Gillingham, Laura's usual lodgings, but she is absent. Source: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/73eac448fa705cb75848225a3e748f1f.png db32b0b4486eb06ec9f8fe0448c13bf7 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 Laura prepares for the upcoming census boycott. Source: Votes For Women, 3 March, 1911 p. 360. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/904da6c3cbf4de6b12d5d29d79f41c32.jpg 492a94dc41bb401f7501a0691ddcbf14 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 The 1911 census form for Jezreel Hall, then a Dance Academy, where Laura organized a suffragette census evasion. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation WSPU organiser 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 32 Stuart Road, Gillingham 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 Laura Frances Ainsworth was born in 1885 in Northumberland and became a teacher. However, she gave up her position to work as an organiser for the WSPU first in London and then in Birmingham. It was in Birmingham that she was arrested in 1909, for participating in the disruption of a meeting being held by the Prime Minister at Bingley Hall. Laura immediately went on hunger strike in Winson Green prison where she was forcibly fed. She, it was remarked, 'is very determined and it is necessary still to administer food through the tube' (see our Suffrage Glossary under resources for an explanation of Force Feeding). Once released, she was taken to a nursing home to recover. Like many WSPU organisers, Laura's life was peripatetic over the next few years. She worked in Bradford, Bolton, back in London, in Southend, Maidstone and Gillingham. Laura was lodging at (now) 32 Stuart Road in Gillingham in 1911 but was absent from her usual address when the government census survey was taken. That's because as a committed suffragette she was overseeing a mass census evasion of suffragettes elsewhere in Gillingham - at Jezreel Hall, in Canterbury Street. The census return for this evasion, tracked down by suffrage historian Elizabeth Crawford (see images) shows the census official recorded at the Hall (then a Dance Academy) a 'Party of suffragettes assembled' consisting of 1 male and 39 females - a considerable evasion. The 'Party' were discovered by the census official after a tip off by the police who were called to the Hall to investigate due to the noise made by the over exuberant suffragettes inside - undoing their own plans to hide out unnoticed! Laura resigned from the WSPU in 1912, when the Pankhurst's split with the well respected Pethick-Lawrences who had been with the WSPU since its very beginning. In 1913, she became secretary for the North-East branch of the National Political League which aimed to push social and political reforms for women and for men - a predicate of which was the granting of the vote to women. Laura died in 1958. Sources: Information provided by Elizabeth Crawford. To read more on Laura's census night exploits, view Crawford's excellent blog on Laura Ainsworth at https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/11/11/suffrage-stories-the-1911-census-the-gillingham-suffragettes-boycott/ 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 Laura Ainsworth 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(61700.05842271136 6687789.894998953) https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f7e7646265f14b5adbf3352aec6cb224.jpg 2ebd8403611bc8a934fc47a3ff8bd0fc 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/8f2fb931b6f312cda6d16f31c7c63f76.png c5b0571219a296bc85b675f77958cd8f 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: Votes for Women, 10 April, 1909 p. 556. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation None given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 38 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 8 Edith Road, Hammersmith 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 Eleonora Maund married her husband Edward in 1892 at St Pancras when she was 19 years old and he 42. He was the Director of the British South Africa Company and together they had several children. By 1911, they had been together for almost 20 years, during which time Eleonora became a supporter of the women's suffrage cause. Unfortunately, her husband did not share her views. This is revealed by the 1911 census form for the couple, completed by Edward as head of household at their home at 8 Edith Road, Hammersmith, London. Edward filled in all of Eleonora's details but she, by then a member of the local WSPU, wished to evade the census as part of the wider suffragette boycott. So, Eleanor crossed out her details in retaliation, but Edward re entered them in red ink along with the following comment: 'My wife unfortunately being a Suffragette put her pen through her name, but it must stand as correct it being an equivocation to say that she is away she being always resident here & has only attempted by a silly subterfuge to defeat the object of the Census. To which as “Head” of the family I object. E A Maund'. There was clearly considerable tension between husband and wife over this issue, but Eleonora was undeterred. She was committed to the WSPU (at least until 1912) during which time she made financial contributions to its funds and used the couples home to take in WSPU postal communications, store items for its suffrage exhibitions and hold WSPU meetings or 'working party's' there (see image). Given Edward's disapproval of his wife's involvement with the 'suffragette' movement, one can only imagine his outrage that Eleonora used their home for WSPU business. The couples dispute also raised a dilemma for Mapping Women's Suffrage. Eleonora's details are recorded on the 1911 census, so technically she is in compliance. Yet, we know that she did not comply; that she evaded but was recorded by her husband against her will. For us there was no question, that in memory of Eleonora and as testament to her voice and will, her 'silly subterfuge' had to be recorded as it was intended by her - as a census evasion. Thanks to Vicky Iglikowski-Broad for information on Eleonora. Read her blog on this topic 'A Silly Subterfuge' on our News and Events page. 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 Eleonora Maund 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(-23786.548414312154 6709042.784765323) WSPU