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                    <text>Courtesy: The National Archives.</text>
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                    <text>Nina Salaman Portrait by Solomon J. Solomon, 1918. Source: Jewish Women’s Archive  (public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Salaman).</text>
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                    <text>Dr R N Salaman, Officers of the 39th Royal Fusiliers, Cairo, 1918. Dr Salaman is fourth from left, 3rd Row. Source: unknown, 1920 (The British Jewry Book of Honour, 1922 see https://www.jewsfww.uk/roll-of-honour.php).</text>
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              <text>Redcliffe Nathan Salaman (1874-1955) was a medical doctor who gave up his role when he contracted tuberculosis.  Redirecting his energies elsewhere, he became a well-known plant scientist who bred disease-resistant potatoes. Redcliffe and his wife ‘Nina’ (née Pauline Ruth Davis, 1877-1925) were advocates of women’s rights.  In 1909, the NUWSS newspaper Common Cause reported that Redcliffe spoke in favour of women’s suffrage alongside Mrs E O Fordham at a meeting in Hertfordshire.  The following year, Redcliffe and his wife hosted an event for Liberal Party supporters at their home in Barley, Hertfordshire.  As the couple lived in a large country house, the grounds provided a perfect location for the event which was attended by more than 450 people.  Redcliffe was among the speakers along with the Hon. Mrs Fordham who touched on the case for women’s suffrage. The Salamans were close friends of the suffrage sympathisers, Israel and Edith Zangwill, who campaigned with the MLWS and WSPU.  While the Zangwills appear to have evaded the 1911 census, the Salamans complied with it.  Redcliffe was described on the census as a retired doctor engaging in scientific research, while Nina, who was a poet and respected Hebrew scholar, was listed as an authoress.  Five of their six children were also named along with several servants. In 1912, Redcliffe and Nina were among the founding vice-presidents of a new organisation, the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage (JLWS), which the Zangwills also supported.  Welcoming the arrival of the JLWS, the WSPU paper The Suffragette, noted that the JLWS would work along similar lines to church suffrage leagues by emphasising the need for women’s emancipation to improve women’s status and to combat social evils.  The JLWS also aimed to “encourage the participation of the Synagogue in social movements of the day.”  Although Nina was active in the JLWS along with her sisters-in-law, she is said to have been less politically engaged than her husband and to have opposed the militant tactics of the suffragettes.  Nevertheless, she was ground-breaking in her own way.  As well as publishing her religious writing and being dedicated to improving girls’ education, she became the first woman to preach in an Orthodox synagogue in Britain in 1919. With the arrival of the First World War, Redcliffe joined the Royal Army Medical Core and served in the Middle East while Nina encouraged people to donate comforts to Jewish soldiers.  Redcliffe and Nina became increasingly involved in Zionism, a cause which Redcliffe continued to support after Nina’s untimely death in 1925.  The following year, Redcliffe married Gertrude Lowy (1887-1982) who had been a militant suffrage campaigner in her twenties.  During the Second World War, Redcliffe acted as Chairman of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad which assisted Jewish people who had been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Sources: Common Cause; Suffragette; Herts &amp; Cambs Reporter; The Times; Todd Edelmen, ‘Surreptitious Rebel – Nina Davis Salaman’, Report of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew &amp; Jewish History (Oxford: OCHJC, 2013-14); The Jewish Museum www.jewishmuseum.org.uk. Contributed by art historian Diana Wilkins with additional information from Tara Morton.</text>
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                    <text>Photo of Annie in 1911. The photo appeared in the Poster Supplement of the Yorkshire Weekly Herald, 24 June 1911 ‘York Corporation and Municipal Institutions in the Coronation Year, 1911’. It was photographed by Mr. Lane Smith and Annie was one of just 6 women out of 116 men.</text>
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                    <text>1911 census return for 33 Melbourne Street. Only Annie's son is at home. Courtesy: The National Archives.</text>
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                    <text>Annie's daughter Florence and her baby Stephen who was pushed in his pram by fleeing suffragette Lilian Lenton (acting as a nanny) to escape house arrest under the Cat and Mouse Act (see Resources: glossary of terms). Photo with kind permission of Catherine Djimramadji (Annie Coultate’s great granddaughter).</text>
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              <text>Annie Coultate posted a notice in Votes for Women on 18th February 1910, announcing that: ‘A group of women has undertaken to organise a women’s meeting on March 2nd.  All interested are invited to write to Mrs Coultate as above. Hon. Sec. Mrs Coultate, 68 Nunthorpe Road.’ A year later when the 1911 census enumerator called at 33 Melbourne Street in Fishergate, York, he discovered that then resident Annie Coultate had signed the census form, but she had not made an entry for herself and described her son Henry as the head of the household. The enumerator scratched out ‘Head’ and wrote ‘Son’ and added a terse note diagonally across the form saying: ‘The signature is that of a well-known suffragette. She was away from her home during the night of the census but was most probably enumerated amongst a number of suffragettes who passed the night in a room in Coney Street, York, with the object of evading the census’. Annie was secretary of York WSPU and had spent census night in a room adjacent to their offices in Coney Street, where an enumerator counted the 18 women and 3 men as they left the building. After the event, Votes for Women reported that ‘a large upper room was furnished with comfortable chairs and the evaders settled themselves in for the night…The most thrilling moments were when policemen ascended the stairs and the room ‘lay low’…  Supper was served and amid much merriment and a most enjoyable night was spent.’ As secretary, she was at the centre of the campaign and Votes for Women records her regularly selling large numbers of the newspaper from door to door and on the street in York.  She also organised events and social gatherings and occasionally spoke at public meetings in York and other towns. There were few examples of militant action in York, but Annie actively supported those who took part in the campaign. When Lilian Lenton was released under the Cat and Mouse Act, she escaped from house arrest in York by acting as a nanny and pushing Annie’s daughter Florence’s baby, Stephen, in a pram. Annie was born Annie de Lacy in 1856, the daughter of Henry, a wholesale druggist traveller. She became a pupil-teacher at the age of 15 and was 55 years old when she set up the York WSPU.  By then she was a highly respected senior teacher at Fishergate Elementary School, where her work for women’s suffrage was admired by the headmaster, George Barker. She was one of very few women included in a municipal poster of photographs of key figures working for York Corporation in 1910, the only known photograph of her. Annie married Frank Coultate in 1881. He was also a schoolteacher, but he died aged 41 and Annie brought up Henry and Florence on her own. Florence followed Annie into teaching and married William Mountain Holmes, headteacher of Poppleton Road School in York, and both were involved in the suffrage movement. Henry was a grocer’s assistant and also worked for the cause. Annie died in 1931 at her daughter’s house in Acomb, York, aged 75. Contributed by Christopher Rainger for the Fishergate, Fulford &amp; Heslington Local History Society. For more information about Annie Coultate and other women involved in the suffrage campaign in York, visit: www.ffhyork.weebly.com&#13;
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                    <text>Alys Russell in 1913. Source: Worthing Gazette, 28 May 1913 courtesy of West Sussex County Council Library Service. </text>
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              <text>Ethel Mary Nucella Williams (1863-1948) was born in Cromer, Norfolk. Her father was a country squire and a friend of author Lewis Carroll. Her mother’s family had included William Harvey, the seventeenth-century physician famous for describing the circulation of the blood. Ethel was educated at Norwich High School and Newnham Cambridge, although she did not take a degree as women were not then permitted. She eventually took an MB in 1891, achieved an MD in 1895 at the London School of Medicine for Women, and returned to Cambridge securing a diploma in Public Health in 1899. She spent some time working in London at Clapham Maternity Hospital as a Medical Officer and at a dispensary for women and children in Blackfriars. She returned to Newcastle in 1906 as the city’s first woman doctor forming a joint practice with Ethel Bentham. That year, she was also the first woman to drive a car in Newcastle which would come in handy during her suffrage campaigning (see image). Like most women doctors of her generation, Ethel was concerned with the health needs of women and children and provided milk for infants at her own expense to try and reduce Newcastle’s appalling infant mortality rate. In 1909, she was appointed to the senate of Durham University and later became a member of the Newcastle Education Committee and Justice of the Peace. In 1917, Ethel co-founded the Northern Women’s Hospital (now the Nuffield Health Clinic on Osborne Road) and helped initiate residential care for boys with learning disabilities. She was also one of the earliest members of the Medical Women’s Federation founded in 1917 to further the interests of women doctors and patients. Ethel had a long association with campaign for female suffrage, signing the Declaration in Favour of Women’s Suffrage in 1889 and later became president to the Newcastle and District Women’s Suffrage Society (NUWSS). She took part in the NUWSS ‘mud march’ in 1907 and was also involved in suffrage processions and marches in Newcastle. The suffragist marching banner she may have carried in 1907 (see images) and possible on other marches is part of Newcastle University Library’s Special Collections and has been restored by the People's History Museum, Manchester. Despite belonging to the law abiding NUWSS, Ethel illegally evaded the government census survey in 1911 being deliberately absent from her address at 3 Osborne Terrace which she shared with (see) Frances Hardcastle, her lifelong companion. In the end, the census return (see image) was signed on her behalf in her absence by Helen Moss a locum doctor. Also present was Clementina Gordon, an organizing secretary for the NUWSS. This form of passive resistance suited Ethel and she also became a tax resistor. She began withholding her taxes while the highly anticipated Conciliation Bill was undergoing final readings in parliament. The bill, originated by a group of cross-party MPs, promised the vote to some women householders. When the bill was torpedoed by Asquith in 1912, Ethel refused to pay the taxes. In June 1913, she was one of 100 NUWSS members who left Newcastle, banners aloft, to join the great and arduous NUWSS Pilgrimage down to London. By 1915, she was chair of the North Eastern Federation of the NUWSS. When war broke out in 1914, Ethel severed her ties with the Liberal Party for their inaction on female suffrage and became more closely aligned with the programme of the Labour Party – though it is unlikely she joined it. She did join the Union of Democratic Control which campaigned for greater accountability in the making of British foreign policy and was secretary of the Newcastle Workers and Soldiers Council modeled on the Russian ‘soviets’ established after the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II, and in which Special Branch took a keen interest, preventing many meetings from taking place. Ethel was also a founding member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (she was secretary of the Newcastle branch in 1934). In 1924 Ethel retired from medicine but remained actively involved in the peace movement. Sources: Special thanks to Mick Sharp for the digitized images from 'Ethel Williams', Special Collection Library, Newcastle University; Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London: 1999); 'Votes for Women: Newcastle's Own Radical Suffragist' at https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/tag/ethel-williams/ ;&#13;
Ornella Moscucci ‘Ethel Williams’ https://womenvotepeace.com/women/ethel-williams-bio/</text>
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