22 10 286 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/dbcd2cf70a2600bf8ab37e8d14198335.jpg 0536a8395e06f9eab9994a50207992de 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 for image: http://www.elisarolle.com/romance/images/EvaGoreBooth.jpg https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2551193e9bf2c8a7692e0436a1f22367.jpg 4bbb2449d7f894893fc469cbb2b6d5da 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 for image: https://www.makingthefuture.eu/img/asset/bWFpbi91cGxvYWRzL2V2YS1nb3JlLTEuanBn?w=1000&s=ee6842dbf05e0bf73fa681bd4dc7c255 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/79f887d43dbc1114c98de73795e3879b.jpg 79d5020703426eb48ed7fac120aae2e0 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 return for 4 Park Crescent where visitor Elizabeth Parker signs for 'Esther Roper, the occupier'. Source: courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5be287333c09ccad625aec03f621d013.png 135a891f00cf2a4a3e857f1b9edd15f6 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 4 Park Crescent is now part of the Victoria Park Hotel. Source: Google 2021. 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 41 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 Cringle Brook, 4 Park Crescent, Victoria Park, Manchester 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 Evades Biographical Text Born into a wealthy Irish family on 22 May 1870, Eva Gore Booth had an early awakening to her social conscience, witnessing the Irish famine of 1879. She was deeply moved by the experience of tenants coming to her home and begging for help, and she saw her mother’s efforts to help by setting up a school for women to learn needlework, to supplement their incomes and achieve financial independence. After extensive travel with her father during the 1890’s, Eva spent time in Italy – in part to recuperate from the respiratory illness she was beginning to endure. There she began writing poetry and in 1896, met the love of her life, Esther Roper. Eva’s poetry focused in Irish folklore, but also on love and sexuality, and she was one of the only women then writing about love between women. After meeting Esther, Eva moved to live with her in Manchester where she was an active, vociferous but non-violent campaigner for women’s labour rights from 1899 to 1913. Eva believed that women’s suffrage was crucial to gaining fair and equal treatment in the workplace, and in 1904, resigned from the Manchester & Salford Women’s Trade Union Council when they decided not to include the vote among their political demands for women. Eva and Sarah Dickinson set up the Manchester & Salford Women’s Trade Union and Labour Council to continue the campaign for the vote, putting forward parliamentary candidates in the 1906 and 1909 general elections. From 1906 onwards, Eva continued to campaign for women’s rights at work, and the vote. She wrote papers, letters and articles and spoke frequently at meetings and conferences, including Labour Party Conferences and the Fabian Society. In November 1911, she was a member of the delegation representing working women of the north of England who called upon Lloyd George not to drop the Conciliation Bill. Determined to learn everything she could about the conditions of women, Eva spent a brief period in 1911 working as a ‘pit brow lass’ (the women who moved the coal above ground). In Manchester, Eva and Esther lived together first in a small house in Heald Place, in Rusholme. In 1906, they moved to the leafier Victoria Park area – into a house called Cringle Brook (4 Park Crescent). This house is now part of The Victoria Park hotel. The 1901 census records the Heald Place as ‘jointly occupied’ and notes both women to be ‘secretaries’ of campaigning organisations. In 1911, both women appear to have evaded the census – the record for 4 Park Crescent is signed by Elizabeth Parker (visitor) ‘for Esther Roper, the occupier’ and there is no other record of Eva or Esther. The 1911 census boycott offered an opportunity for peaceful campaigners as well as 'suffragettes' to engage in an act of passive resistance although uptake among NUWSS members seems to have been scarce. Eva and Esther may have stayed at the 'mass evasion' sleepover going on at Denison House, just around the corner from their home in Park Crescent, and organized by (see) WSPU member Jessie Stephenson. In 1913, Eva and Esther moved from Manchester to Hampstead in London, to provide a healthier atmosphere for Eva, who continued to suffer from respiratory problems. During the war, both women became involved in welfare work and in the peace campaign. Eva died from intestinal cancer in 1926, and is buried in Hampstead with Esther. Eva's sister Constance, later became Countess Markievicz, Irish nationalist, suffragist, and the first woman elected to the British House of Commons. Sources: Sonia Tiernan, Eva Gore-Booth: An Image of Such Politics (Manchester, 2012); Emma Baldwin, Biography of Eva Gore Booth (Poemanalysis.com); Slaters' Manchester , Salford & Suburban Directory' 1909 p 955 and 1911 (Pt1) p 538 (University of Leicester, Special Collections online). Contributed by Evelyn Cook, Independent Researcher. 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 Eva Gore-Booth 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(-247385.1930359648 7067337.600600301) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a8410245a69a19612dcf607d8c9e97e6.jpeg cfcef46d6ca52524086ea5db36052307 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 Rose Lamartine Yates, circa 1909. Source: www.bathintime.co.uk https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/11f1b6a559f3cfa101711948d5029cfe.jpg 509d8c180ff13baaae5fc7a0f3a63f30 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 Dorset Hall. Source & copyright: London Borough of Merton. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a519616d22cf5e28d1bfcce0da3a74dc.jpg 29eefcabff38e466d499c9110bcc22f0 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 Rose with her son Paul. 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Source: courtesy The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9e8326f82ae863173b37c398e521b2ae.jpg 7a93075a2d01589c15f991dda7351178 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 Rose's 1911 census form from her holiday cottage at Whitstable-cum-Seasalter, Kent, listing all her reasons for evading the census and a note from the census enumerator who found it 'tied to the front door'. Courtesy The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c9eff4c941332305270b215cafd6e4c2.jpg 6ec93b1d437cb39ca0d93439161f73be 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 Rose resists the 1911 census at her holiday cottage in Whitstable-cum-Seasalter, Kent. Source: courtesy The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not stated Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 36 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 'Dorset Hall' 152 Kingston Road, 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 Resists Biographical Text Rose (1875 - 1954), who was born in France and raised in Clapham, was educated at the Sorbonne and Royal Holloway. She later studied law to help her husband Tom who was a solicitor. In 1907, Rose became the first woman elected to the Cyclists’ Touring Club (CTC) which had 40,000 members. She also served as the only woman on the Roads Improvement Council. In 1909, Rose joined the Wimbledon branch of the WSPU becoming its militant leader and was jailed for the first time that year, charged with obstruction for protesting outside the House of Commons. Her son, Paul, was 8 months old at the time and she referred to him during her trial. She said that if Paul ever asked her what she had done during the women’s suffrage campaign, she would be embarrassed if she had to reply that she had not attempted to take the matter to the Prime Minister. Despite her husband, Tom, representing her in the trial, Rose was sentenced and served one month’s imprisonment in Holloway. Tom was a member of the Men’s Political Union a wing of the WSPU. Rose’s home, Dorset Hall, became a hub for the Votes for Women movement. She was a great and influential speaker hosting meetings of 20,000 on the local Wimbledon Common. Rose also undertook suffrage work in Kent where she and Tom had a holiday cottage in Whitstable-cum-Seasalter. In 1911, when the government census was taken, Rose and Tom were at their Kent cottage where Rose resisted the census, refusing to give information (see image) but giving a full account of her reasons for protesting the census. In 1912, at her home Dorset Hall, Rose was suspected of hiding Christabel Pankhurst when she was on her way to Paris having fled the Police. Rose refused to allow them to search her house. Emily Wilding Davison (see entry) was a friend and frequently stayed at Rose’s home, including the day before her fatal accident at Epsom Derby in 1913. Rose’s husband Tom represented the Davison family at the inquest, but it was Rose who organised her funeral procession of 100,000 strong. After Emily's death, Rose became ill and took some time to recover, though she remained active with the WSPU until 1915 when the leadership abandoned the suffrage cause to support the War. Rose returned to politics full-time in 1918, when she became a member of the LCC (London County Council) and was instrumental in setting up the Suffragette Fellowship. She never tired of fighting for the poor and under-privileged, leaving her garden at Dorset Hall to be used in perpetuity by the people of Merton. Rose’s home ‘Dorset Hall’ still survives but is under threat. To read more please see our News and Blogs page story ‘Defend Dorset Hall’ by campaigner Barbara Gorna. Sources: Dorset Hall - The John Innes Society Documents held by The Women's Library Newspaper Reports; Jennifer Godfrey Suffragettes of Kent (Pen & Sword); Elizabeth Crawford, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London, 1999). Information contributed by Barbara Gorna (London) & Jennifer Godfrey (Kent). 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 Rose Lamartine Yates 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(-22710.734591537555 6694850.210798857) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cffe5c55b9ecda8e026438cd673d91b6.jpg 3234c7fd94954ce4acf6b0edeb97d997 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: courtesy 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 21 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 'Rosemary' 42 Cyprus Road, Nottingham 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 Dulcie was born in Nottingham. Her father was a German lace merchant who became the German vice-consul in Nottingham. There was a German Club on Market Street and a Club Germania on St Ann’s Well Road. Dulcie was involved in NUWSS, but also appears to have set up the local Friends League for Women’s Suffrage. Her husband Wilfred Stewart Rothera became the City Coroner and was also a supporter of women’s enfranchisement setting up a Men’s Association for Promoting Women’s Suffrage in Nottingham. Dulcie was a VAD nurse in WW1 and in 1939 was Commandant of Notts 202 Red Cross. She was also involved with the YMCA and the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association). Dulcie was also on the London Executive of the National Council of Women. Her obituary in the press stated that she had been an ardent feminist. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Sources: No Surrender! Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, Rowena Edlin-White (Ed.) Nottingham Women's History Group. 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 Dulcie Alice Rothera 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(-127675.77487724744 6977733.290411168) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/aaf87348c12031b0ca7ea93622a9ea4d.jpg bb19e9a3f94fd08932a1d0811218482c 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 Helen Watts circa 1911. Source: Col Linley Blathwayt collection (www.bathintime.co.uk). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/a1ac7ac090069841a1eff48e2f572b7a.jpg e4c464b68c6bcb4a335c2021f63b0d4c 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 Helen in prison uniform: Source & copyright: family album courtesy of The Watts family. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3ac98ea99fb9788e2494c33a309b3580.jpg c2657ac38a32f8c418a2f29df8081a15 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: Nottinghamshire Archives DD993/4 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/af84dfe579fab3bed800ca4f98aa2534.jpg 8adf68baada24eb433ee4271dfd1b90a 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 Helen planting a tree at Eagle House, suffragette refuge. Source: Col Linley Blathwayt collection (www.bathintime.co.uk). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d1c398e2ddcda872c895f2a4b9e0b4a6.jpg 0dcb8fefb2868358daee6eeb6ab25aeb 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: courtesy 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 29 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 Chilcompton, Somerset 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 Helen was born in Co Durham the eldest child of Rev Alan Hunter Watts who became the Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Lenton in 1893. The family lived at Lenton Vicarage now Unity House, 35 Church Street. She had seven younger siblings and was particularly close to her brother Nevile with whom she published 'Poems by a Brother and Sister' in 1906. As a girl Helen contributed to The Girl's Realm magazine an enlightened periodical supporting women's education and entry into the professions although where Helen herself was educated it unclear. Her parents were known supporters of the East Midlands Federation of the NUWSS and some suffrage meetings were held in the church hall. Helen seems to have attended various suffrage meetings before joining the city branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907 after hearing Christabel Pankhurst speak at a volatile meeting in Nottingham mechanics on 2nd December that year. The speakers there were unable to make themselves heard and so a follow-up meeting was held a week later, on the 9th of December and after this Helen joined the WSPU. On the 24th of February 1909, she joined a protest in London and was arrested for willful obstruction. At her appearance at Bow Street Police Court, she refused to be bound over and was sentenced to one month in jail. She wrote to her parents to tell them about her arrest and arranged that her sisters, Alice and Ethel, would receive weekly copies of the WSPU’s 'Votes for Women' newspaper. On release, she was greeted at Nottingham station by many local suffragettes and a celebration supper was held at Morley's cafe on Wheeler Gate. On the 27th of July 1909, the WSPU attempted to disrupt a meeting at the Albert Hall in Nottingham and were ejected; so held a separate meeting in the Market Place where Helen and several others were arrested but released without charge. On the 4th of September along with Mary Rawson and (see) Nelly Crocker - the local WSPU paid organiser- she attended a meeting in Leicester where Winston Churchill was speaking. This time Helen was charged with 'disorderly conduct' and in Leicester jail went on hunger strike for 90 hours. During that time, she was threatened with force feeding, but this did not happen. She did however, smash two windowpanes in her cell to let in the fresh air. Helen was released after 5 days and spoke about her experiences at Morley's cafe on the 17th of September, remarking, ‘Votes for Women’ will not be won by drawing-room chatter’. She was awarded the Holloway prison medal and the Hunger strike medal and was much in demand as a speaker; there are notes of several of her speeches in the Nottingham archives. Helen was arrested again but does not appear to have been involved with militancy after 1910. By March 1911 was at Eagle House, Batheaston where the (see) Blathwayt family welcomed recovering suffragettes. On the 17th of March she planted a juniper tree in the Suffragettes wood there (see image). By the 2nd of April 1911 - census night - she was boarding at the home of her brother Nevile in Chilcompton, Somerset, where she complied with the census. We are not certain where the house was in Chilcompton, so have temporarily placed it at a generic location in the town. If anyone local can discern the name of the house from the census record and identify its precise location, please contact the Mapping Women's Suffrage project. By 1912, Helen was training as a nurse at the Royal National Hospital in Bath and working with the Women’s Freedom League by 1914. Later, she worked as a Civil servant in the Ministry of Pensions. After her retirement she lived in Hassocks in Sussex where she was involved with the Unitarian church. On the 18th of May 1962, she gave an interview in Bath where she had come to see the remains of the Suffragette’s Wood. She said that she had carried a sprig of the juniper tree she planted there in her purse since. In October 1965, she went to Canada to visit her sister Ethel, but ill health forced her to return to Somerset where she died aged 91. She is buried in St Vigor's churchyard at Stratton-on-the-Fosse. In the 1970s, an unaccompanied trunk arrived from Canada at Bristol Docks and remained unclaimed there for several years. Eventually, a dock worker opened it and it was found to contain Helen's letters and suffragette memorabilia. Fortunately, this was shown to a local teacher who made copies and sent these to Nottinghamshire archives - without which we would know a great deal less. The Nottingham Women’s History Group planted a Juniper tree in 2017 and in 2019 installed a commemorative plaque to Helen in the Arboretum. Sources: Helen Kirkpatrick watts Suffragette a Piecemeal Pamphlet by Rowena Edlin White Feb 2016 No Surrender: Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire NWHG; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London, 1999). Contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.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 Helen Watts 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(-278791.20437164535 6667434.494858074) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/97dec7281d5d9dfca154788ba3f0188d.tif ae4f6e66a7a9e9bce519098055565ec4 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 Helena Dowson, circa 1926. Source: image courtesy of University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections UMP/4/1 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b2dabd987463365dfdb5ae4f9a0420a3.jpg 4c4330c0c6f12923268ded48a9a9b3be 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: courtesy The National Archives https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2c5688b9c7c2b1c390d79e62f9050f48.jpg 355af8ff140f922718529781a0e6c47c 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 East side of Helena's home 'Felixstowe' before demolition. Source: Photo taken by Philip Potter, son of Helena's housekeeper. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/0ddcfe1db1ee4cfa25e884dabb3b3b85.jpg b28349257992a1d3e202262d917a6b20 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 Citation made to Helena 'Nellie' Dowson. Source: Dame Alix Meynall's book 'Public Servant, Private Woman' (1988 Victor Gollancz). Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Secretary Women's Suffrage Society 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 'Felixstowe' , Clumber Road West, The Park, Nottingham 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 Helena, or Nellie as she preferred to be known, was born at Chestnut House on Chestnut Grove, the only daughter of Alderman Anderson and Jane Brownsword, both active in charity and social works. She married Will Dowson in 1894, first son of Benjamin and Alice Dowson and from 1906 lived in Felixstowe in the Park (previously they had lived at 10 Mapperley Road). The couple also had a bungalow on the Trent. Helena worked with her mother and sisters in law on various issues including women’s suffrage. She took over the lead secretary role from her mother in 1895, affiliating to the National NUWSS and attending the executive meetings in London. She attended and organised demonstrations and meetings, held garden parties and stalls to fundraise, went on marches and events including some organised by the East Midlands Federation of NUWSS as well as some WSPU events. Helena also worked in Nottingham’s suffrage shop in Regent’s Chambers at 54 Long Row - now gone. In 1911, Helena was at home and complied with the April 2nd Census recording her occupation as secretary of the local women’s suffrage society. In 1913, she and Maud - her sister-in-law - joined the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage held by the NUWSS as it passed through Nottingham, on route to London. Nellie picked up Millicent Fawcett and took her to speak at Chesterfield and Southwell; the only region in the shire where Mrs Fawcett spoke. They returned home after the East Midlands events and re-joined the final Hyde Park pilgrimage event on 26th July. Once the vote was won, Helena’s work was commended with an illuminated address by fellow suffragists in Nottingham as follows: “NOTTINGHAM SUFFRAGE LEADER HONOURED. To mark their appreciation of her services to the cause, the object of which has now been secured, friends of the women's suffrage movement in the city and county yesterday [18th July 1918] presented Mrs. W. E. Dowson, of Nottingham, with two large volumes of Japanese painters, with an illuminated address suitably inscribed, and a bronze statuette entitled “Sorrow." The ceremony took place at the residence of Mrs. W. R. Hamilton, Eastdene Alexandra Park, Nottingham, and was witnessed by a considerable gathering” (Nottingham Evening Post, 19 July 1918). During WW1, Helena organised various fundraising and support for women; she was the Honorary Secretary of Queen’s Work for Women; a member of the Anti-Profiteering committee; and set up two Baby Welcomes and a day nursery at the request of the Ministry of Health. She became the first woman JP in 1920 after the Sex Disqualification Removal Act and inaugurated the women’s police court work – being Chair and secretary. Helena also stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate in 1919 and then became the first woman Liberal Councillor in 1920-24 representing the Meadows Ward. She campaigned to improve housing and sanitation and to extend the vote to women over 21 (on an equal footing to men) and for their access to representation on civic bodies. The NUWSS became the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC) in 1919 and in 1924 it became the Nottingham Women’s Service Association later becoming the Townswomen’s Guilds. Helena remained a member. She was also related by marriage to Eleanor Rathbone, who started the first Guilds. She maintained her house in The Park throughout her life, but from 1961 bought Northfield, a house in Newby Bridge, Ulverston now in Cumbria in the Lake District on the edge of Lake Windermere. It is here that she died at the age of 98. Her former home Felixstowe was demolished after her death in the 1960’s. A plaque celebrating her role as the first Liberal woman Councillor was unveiled on 8 March 2020 on the Council House and on 20 July 2020 on the Justice Centre in commemoration of her as one of the first JP’s. In 2021, a blue plaque will be mounted at the Justice Centre to celebrate all of Helena’s incredible achievements. Sources: Miriam Jackson, 'A Tribute to Life: Helena Brownsword Dowson 1866-1964' in No Surrender: Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire, NWHG; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999). Contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.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 Helena Brownsword Dowson 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(-129799.4168028151 6973897.073154525) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/92fe00d66d8d06f52f9208424d581986.jpg b0bdc2499fc21a15112c61a0e7d63b37 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 May is absent and likely evading the census. Source: 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 35 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 445 Mansfield Road, Redhill, Nottingham 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 Leonora was married to University College science Professor, Philip Shaw. She joined the Nottingham WSPU branch in 1908 and may have been a founding member. She also acted as some time Treasurer and President and was also a member of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage. She was absent from her home on census night (see image) suggesting that she was evading as part of the WSPU census boycott. Later that year, she was present at the violent struggle that took place during the Black Friday demonstration in Parliament Square in November 1911. Source: Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999); Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (London, 2006). Contributed by Nottingham Women's History group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.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 Leonora Shaw 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(-127885.05551990966 6978908.659918798) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/e83571895d1622ac8f3ce27eeec92d29.jpg 9a8012c7486c34b54a619982da9c0eea Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Teacher Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 37 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 21 Chaucer Street, Nottingham 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 May, as she was known, was born in Berkshire and was one of 10 siblings. Her father died when she was aged 26. May was a teacher and worked in a private school. It seems that May moved to Nottingham in about 1901 where she worked for the Education Committee for twenty-nine years. She was involved with the NUWSS but became active in Nottingham's WSPU branch in about 1907 and was elected Honorary secretary in 1908 until a paid organiser Rachel Barrett was appointed later that year. May was present in London on 24th of February,1909, when (see) Helen Kirkpatrick Watts was arrested outside the House of Commons. She wrote to Helen warmly supporting her action, saying she had ‘suffered terribly for the Cause’ while May herself felt a 'desperate coward' as she had escaped the worst of the conflict. In April 1911, May evaded the government census survey as part of a wider suffragette boycott, but her mother and sisters Hannah and Kate and brother George, were home at 21 Chaucer Street - unfortunately no longer there. May went on to teach at Mundella Grammar School for some years becoming Head of the Clarendon School for Girls in 1925. She died at home at 4 Whittingham Road in Mapperley after a short illness. The Nottingham Evening Post reported her death and funeral which was attended by Aldermen, Councillors, and Education Committee members. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.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 May (Catherine Mary) Burgis 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(-128684.3294636941 6975082.596230316) WSPU Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Biographical Text Fanny Gladys was born in Bradford. She is sometimes referred to as Fanny, sometimes Gladys, and sometimes as Miss F G Roberts. She was a former solicitor’s clerk who had taken a typing course in Bradford and was the Secretary of Bradford WSPU in 1908 where she chalked caricatures and rhymes on blackboards placed on the street following the Bradford Corporation’s forbidding of pavement chalking to advertise meetings. In the summer of 1909, she was helping Helen Watts in Nottingham and was based at 6 Carlton Street – an address also given by Nelly Crocker in an advert for underwear to be sold at a WSPU Christmas Fair. Fanny was imprisoned in 1909 and 1911 for breaking Post Office windows and her name is on an embroidered suffragette handkerchief held in the Sussex Museum. She cannot be traced on the 1911 census so may have been an evader. She and Nellie Crocker took over at the Nottingham WSPU office in about mid-1911. In 1912, Nelly Crocker and Fanny were both imprisoned for three months in Holloway Prison for breaking windows with hammers at the Post Office on the King’s Road Chelsea, London. They went on hunger strike and were forcibly fed. The two returned to Nottingham in June 1912 and were given a celebratory supper. Fanny then disappears until 1939 when she is recorded as secretary to an Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor Garthorne Robert Girdlestone, in Oxfordshire. By then Fanny was living in Oxfordshire with Dorothy Vincent Carey. She died in 1975. Source: No Surrender :Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Researched and contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.org.uk. Occupation Solicitors clerk Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 23 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 6 Carlton Street, Nottingham 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 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 Fanny Roberts 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(-127473.06208454112 6974395.7622567285) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/661f020a74ed4d9134f1ee377b63541f.JPG 641cfadf0b68ead562cda1442e247e92 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 Hutchinson family are absent likely evading. Source: The National Archives. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not known Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Not known 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 5 Cavendish Crescent South, The Park, Nottingham 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 In May 1911, Sarah and her mother gave the Nottingham WSPU a banner to be carried the following month in the Women’s Coronation Procession in London. Earlier in April, Sarah and her parents had been ‘absent’ from home when the government census survey was taken and so only their servants were recorded. Likely they were all evading as part of the wider census boycott encouraged by the WSPU. By 1913, Sarah was secretary of the Nottingham branch of the Friends’ League for Women’s Suffrage. The society aimed to secure the Parliamentary Franchise for women on the same basis as it is or may be granted to men. Source: Jill Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester, 2014); Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (London, 2006). Contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.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 Sarah Hutchinson 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(-129424.60407736634 6973624.738112884) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7e8c5ed722f852f366512a30f3ba47f7.jpg d36e41b09163720123bca4e93b8a5a45 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 Ridding 1900 (Photo: Ernest H Mills) Source: image ref NTGM012018 courtesy Nottingham City Council (www.picturethepast.org.uk). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/66f1d6e31101e921f702b7c13af50fce.jpg 63f40256ea18a1401f4f99b70af36242 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 62 Marital Status The marital status of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Widowed Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 20 Bryanston Square, London. 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 Lady Laura Palmer was born in London in 1849 the daughter of the First Earl of Shelbrooke. In 1876, she married George Ridding, who in 1884 became Bishop of Southwell, Nottingham so the couple moved there. Laura was a keen suffragist though this was something she had to downplay because of her husband’s prominent role in the church. Nonetheless, she was very active in social projects for women and girls in Nottingham, for example, founding a rescue home - Southwell House in Broad Marsh and Hope Lodge - for girls in prostitution. She was also involved in campaigning for better factory conditions and reduced hours helping set up in 1895 the National Union of Women’s Workers, and was involved in the Girls’ Evening Home Movement – clubs to keep young working women off the streets and out of pubs. She was responsible for founding Family Care, an organisation still helping families today. She was also a Poor Law Guardian and rural district Councillor for Southwell Union from 1895 – 1904 at which time her husband died. In 1911, she spent some time with her sister and brother-in-law, the Earl, and Countess Waldergrave in London, where she can be found on the census. She later appears as one of the patrons of a fete held in aid of the East Midlands Federation of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies in 1912, though by this time she had moved back to live at a former residence the Rectory in Wonston, Hampshire. Laura among her other activities, wrote for various periodicals and the Times newspaper on subjects such as women’s education. She wrote three biographies of her husband, sister, and nephew. She also wrote a historical novel ‘By Weeping Cross’ in 1899. During WWI she remained active in the Soldiers and Sailors Family Association, the Women’s War Agricultural Committee, and the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association). Laura died in 1939 and is buried alongside her husband in Southwell where she did so much good work. Source: No Surrender: Women's Suffrage in Nottinghamshire - NWHG. Contributed by Nottingham Women's History Group www.nottinghamwomenshistory.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 Laura Ridding 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(-17920.768222860555 6713507.751168351) NUWSS