1 10 293 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/de9d2b1f488ff183b597456cc5896d10.jpg e22c952e96d33f839670c10851d158d1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource A photograph believed to be of Jessie Payne Margoliouth. Source: www.new.ox.ac.uk https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/633be45ee8e4fc154ba8e38572ad16ff.jpg ab4ff08bbcddc77e4cd5d742c2576d40 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 1911 census form for 88 Woodstock Road, Oxford. Source: courtesy of 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 55 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 88 Woodstock Road, Oxford Suffrage Society The suffrage society this person was affiliated with at the time of the 1911 UK Census NUWSS & CLWS Census This person's response to the 1911 UK Census Complies Biographical Text Jessie Payne Margoliouth, born Jessie Payne Smith, was a scholar and constitutional campaigner for women’s suffrage. She was born in Kensington on 23 February 1856, the daughter of Catherine Freeman and the Reverand Robert Payne Smith, who was a scholar of Syriac and Arabic. Following the deaths of her parents, Jessie moved back to Oxford, where she lodged with Charlotte Toynbee, an influential campaigner for women’s education. She later married David Margoliouth, with whom she shared both scholarly interests and a commitment to women’s suffrage. In 1904 she cofounded the Oxford Women’ Suffrage Society (OWSS), which was affiliated to the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The NUWSS pursued constitutional and lawful methods of campaigning rather than the militant approach associated with the WSPU. Jessie was immediately elected chairwoman of the OWSS executive committee, a position she held from 1904 until 1916, and she remained on the committee until 1918. She played an active role in the Oxford suffrage movement. In 1906 she wrote parliamentary candidates asking whether they supported women’s suffrage and published their responses in the press. She helped organise large suffrage meetings at Oxford Town Hall and other venues and participated in national NUWSS rallies and pilgrimages that attracted large numbers of supporters. At the same time, she publicly criticised suffragette violence and disruption, reflecting her commitment to constitutional campaigning. Her activism extended beyond the NUWSS. When the Oxford branch of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage was established in 1910, Jessie became its chairman and remained in that position until 1913. The Oxford Women's Suffrage Society also met in her drawing room, making her home an important location for local suffrage organising. She and her husband remained committed to the women’s suffrage cause, and she continued to her work with the OWSS well beyond the 1911 census with which she complied. While the occupation column is blank on her census form she is now recognised as a significant British Syriac Scholar. Sources: www.new.ox.ac.uk; www.oxforddnb.com. Contributed by Elizabeth Von Valtenberg, undergraduate historical researcher, University of Warwick. 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 Jessie Payne Margoliouth 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(-140884.50037497544 6758291.928783662) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/28e6029142c39b60d225e60e145fc5c5.jpg 9777fd6c546620b55c8dcb1b230da9c5 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 George Lansbury. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/39067abfba1fa2d78052639da823c877.jpg c5c99005c9f647304af368b6e6882acf 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 George Lansbury on a Motorcycle, c. 1935. Source: The Women's Library, LSE. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/47869cdc0c9b58785f710d82e4fac24c.jpg 061d6319a45af5ec985420682d7ecd95 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 George Lansbury 1911 census record. Source: Courtesy of The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5d7dcf98a39d7a3bfe6944674b143cb5.jpg 28b178450485b424901482494778a816 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 George Lansbury and his wife. Source: courtesy www.geni.com Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Timber and Veneer Merchant and Member of Parliament Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 52 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 101 & 103 St Stephen's 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 Complies Biographical Text George Lansbury was a prominent East London politician and one of the leading male supporters of women’s suffrage. He married Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Brine in 1880, and they eventually had twelve children. After spending a period in Australia, Lansbury returned to Britain and worked at the Brine sawmill in Bow. His involvement in campaigns concerning poverty and social reform became closely connected to his support for women’s politics rights. George had stood unsuccessfully as Socialist parliamentary candidate for the SDF where he lived in the East End of London, before joining the Independent Labour Party in 1905 In June 1905, Lansbury worked with Keir Hardie and Dora Montefiore to organise a march of around 1,000 destitute East End women to Westminster. In 1906-7 he donated money to the WSPU, while Bessie became a WSPU member. By 1910 Lansbury was himself a member of the Church League for Women’s Suffrage and though later he is most closely associated with the WSPU (recognised on this map) men were not formally allowed to join. That year he was elected to the London County Council and subsequently became Labour MP for Bow and Bromley. He remained a strong supporter of women’s enfranchisement and became a regular contributor to Votes for Women newspaper. In 1911 Lansbury became an especially vocal supporter of the WSPU. He defended its militant tactics, condemned the force feeding of imprisoned suffragettes and criticised Herbert Asquith’s government for refusing to enfranchise women. Unlike suffragettes who resisted the census, Lansbury participated and was recorded at 101/103 St Stephen’s Road, Old Ford (location on map only approximate due to demolitions and renumbering). His support continued well beyond 1911. In 1912, with the backing of the WSPU leadership, Lansbury resigned his parliamentary seat to contest a by-election on a “Votes for Women” platform as an independent, pledging not to support other legislation until women were enfranchised. The action was controversial among local East London suffrage campaigners, who had not been consulted by the leadership. He lost the resulting by-election, and the following year was imprisoned for speeches supporting suffragettes involved in illegal activities. He was arrested after a 'vociferous' speech on suffrage militancy in 1913 and sentenced to three months in prison but released under the 'Cat and Mouse Act' after going on hunger strike. Likely due to the threat of bad publicity for the government, he was not sent back to prison as was the usual practice. That same year, George became editor of a left-wing socialist newspaper, the Daily Herald, and in 1914 joined and became vice president, with his wife, of the United Suffragists (US). He worked closely with fellow socialist and suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst during the First World War. In 1916, George was an executive member of the National Council for Adult Suffrage, which continued to press the women's suffrage issue. The well-known actress Angela Lansbury was a descendent. Sources: E Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London); Women's Suffrage Resources (The Historical Association); The Marx Memorial Library (www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk); Society for the Study of Labour History (https://sslh.org.uk/2022/10/14/digitised-and-online-the-papers-of-george-lansbury/). Contributed by Elizabeth Von Valtenburg, undergraduate history researcher, University of Warwick. 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 George Lansbury 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(-3618.1060892593337 6716135.06114267) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6b1a56f1fc6a05aaba5c4ca26e619e35.jpg 1cf4e256e2583e75be9e4a657fd4db72 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 Minnie Baldock. Source: The Women's Library at LSE https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/f88127a8987b0c1b413b9559ac30461b.JPG 3e5e73a1acdac591875b5d71a4bbdeee 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 Minnie's home at 490 Barking Road, London. Source: www. nowandthen.org Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Not given Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 46 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 490 Barking 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 Evades Biographical Text Lucy Minnie Baldock was a working-class suffrage campaigner and member of the WSPU. Her activism was closely connected to the concerns of working-class women in East London. She was born Minnie Rogers into a poor family in Bow, East London. She worked in the hard conditions of a factory from a young age to support herself. In the 1880s, Minnie met and married Harry Baldock and they had two sons. They joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and supported the struggle for women’s suffrage. She became an activist for working-class causes and organised working women like herself to campaign. In 1903 she organised a meeting to protest the low wages that West Ham Council proposed to pay women working in its tramway department. In 1905, she stood as a candidate for election to the West Ham Board of Guardians. In 1906, Minnie was chairwoman of the Unemployed Women of Southwest Ham (UWSWH) group and organised for WSPU member Annie Kenney speak to them. As a result, the UWSWH voted to become the Canning Town branch of the WSPU – the very first branch in London. Her increasing involvement in militant suffrage campaigning led to her arrest on 23 October 1906 for disorderly conduct in Old Palace Yard at Westminster during the opening of Parliament. After refusing to be bound over, she was sentenced to two months imprisonment. By 1907, the WSPU was increasingly attempting to attract wealthier middle-class supporters, while Baldock was used to articulate the demand of respectable working-class women for the vote. She became an active speaker for the movement and during the January 1910 general election spoke at campaign meetings across London. She once used a megaphone to repeatedly shout out about votes for women in Parliament Square. Minnie’s imprisonments put a financial strain on her family, and wealthier women sent money to her husband to help. Harry was very supportive of Minnie, saying at a WSPU meeting in Hyde Park that ‘I am proud to be the husband of such a woman… and I glory in her courage.’ Baldock continued working for the WSPU into 1911 and was among the suffragettes who boycotted the 1911 census survey while living at 490 Barking Road. Her main period of WSPU activism came to an end in July 1911 when she became seriously ill with cancer and underwent an operation at the New Hospital for Women. Her involvement did not end immediately however, as she was still receiving requests to speak at suffrage meetings in mid-1912. She continued to be a supporter of and advocate for women’s rights until her death in 1954. Sources: E. Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London); Spartacus Educational; The Women's Library at LSE. Contributed by Elizabeth Von Valtenberg, undergraduate history researcher, University of Warwick. 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 Lucy Minnie Baldock 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(2937.164764171667 6714521.0724560935) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/713232292b1d8b11b48c1e227bff4eb6.png f5d6ab81edab48d04084b1fbde90239f 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 Tollemache House, Bailbrook Lane, Bath. Source: photo from Google maps. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/b0c5bc7f7d7a91aeaf45038e26e4ba5d.jpg 82bd7a928f2e62fd4070567d892f873b 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 Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 20 April 1911. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6afe488933ba208113e8df34534a7529.jpg 88d4ba9784d445b0e15478102b288e47 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 Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 22 June 1912. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/df42f37a9fecf164a26669876353ec8e.jpg 7e9a92ee1c18a08e5eaebacfdb11c6da 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 Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, 8 March 1913. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Gardener 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 Bathesaton Villa (Tollemache House) Bailbrook Lane, 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 Evades Biographical Text Grace Tollemache, born in Rangoon, Burma, was the daughter of Reverend Clement Reginald Tollemache and Frances Josephine Simpson. Her great grandfather was nobleman Lord Huntingtower. Grace, alongside her sister Aethel, were friends and near neighbours with Mary Blathwayt and similarly became active suffrage workers. Grace joined the WSPU in 1910, a couple of years after her sister. In 1911, Grace evaded the census with a group of protesting suffragettes in an empty house in Lansdowne Crescent, Bath. Alongside her sister, who was playing the piano, Grace played violin to entertain her fellow suffragettes evading the census that night. Later that month, Grace used her musical abilities once again at the ‘Suffrage Social Gathering in Grove Street’. Alongside her sister, they arranged the programme and sang together in a trio with Miss Johnston. Grace also played two violin solos and was cast in the play as ‘Molly’. In March 1912, Grace Tollemache joined the WSPU’s window-smashing campaign and was sentenced to two months of hard labour. During this time Grace was sent oranges and dates from Mary Blathwayt and was visited by Mrs Kineton Parkes of the Tax Resistance League. In the same year, she provided a comment representing the Bath Suffragists’ views on The Reform Bill to the newspaper the Bath Chronicle. Aethel and Grace often protested cabinet minister meetings, including one in Trowbridge, in which they disguised themselves as "market women". From 1913, when Blathwayt stepped back, Aethel and Grace took over as providers of hospitality and organising for visiting WSPU speakers to Bath. Grace, specifically, became secretary of the Bath branch. In 1913, she protested the sale of her mother’s silver, which was seized by tax officials and sold as recompense when the Tollemache’s engaged in the ‘No Vote, No Tax’ strategy popular among many suffrage campaigners. The silver was purchased by Miss Bruere, a fellow suffrage activist, who duly returned them to Frances Tollemache. In 1914 the sisters were arrested outside Buckingham Palace after taking part in the deputation to the King on the 22nd of May. Grace received lighter punishment than her sister, only receiving a sentence of one day’s imprisonment. With this light punishment, Grace and another suffragette smashed a window at Buckingham Palace during a banquet. The King did not press charges. In July 1914, with her sister, Grace organised a garden party at which Annie Williams spoke. In 1914, the sisters committed to doing their part to support the war effort by ploughing their own field for crops. In the 1930's the Tollemache's turned part of The Villa into a hostel for hikers and in 1934, provided lunch to a group of Welsh hunger marchers who were protesting against unemployment. They also offered their home for Labour Party meetings and continued their musical pursuits in and around Bath. Grace Tollemache passed away in 1952. Sources: J Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote (Manchester, 2014); E Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London 1999); Lucienne Boyce, "Madder than ever": The Tollemache Family of Batheaston. Contributed by Jack Thompson, undergraduate researcher in history, University of Warwick. 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 Tollemache 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(-259241.8319987059 6692867.65529727) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d2f9aedb455f47b40a98a415d3eb9a6b.png 3a5a61c682973f98a8f8497c05c3f092 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource A postcard featuring one of the Tollemache sisters. It is not clear from the image whether this is Aethel or her sister Grace. Source: Museum of London. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/d38290cdaf6caa90ec1e41bacf7add4c.jpg 441611597b3915456832eae9f7dd2f65 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 Londonderry Standard, 29 November 1911. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9fe27c4e813c8d074ce8874cab77360a.jpg 65f88e4cb496444c085291224fa1fe75 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 Somerset Guardian & Radstock, 31 January 1913. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/86e701b6eedb936a8b67c7368afc432b.jpg 020caac8fac401950c5fcc93b08ca13f 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 London Daily Chronicle, 30 January 1913. Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation cook/gardener 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 Single Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census Batheaston Villa (Tollemache House), Bailbrook Lane, 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 Evades Biographical Text Aethel Tollemache, born in Rangoon, Burma, was the daughter of Reverend Clement Reginald Tollemache and Frances Josephine Simpson. Her great grandfather was nobleman Lord Huntingtower. Aethel, alongside her sister Grace, were friends and near neighbours with Mary Blathwayt, and similarly to Mary became active suffrage workers. In 1907, Aethel attended the WSPU meeting with Mary Blathwayt in Bristol, meeting leading WSPU figures Annie Kenney, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, and Christabel Pankhurst. In 1908, she was lent a copy of Helen Blackburn's 'Record of Women's Suffrage' by Mary Blathwayt. The same year, Aethel and Mary attended the Women's Parliament at Caxton Hall, with Aethel taking Lilias Ashworth Hallet's ticket. In 1911, Aethel took part in the suffragette boycott of the government census survey and evaded it with a group of protesting suffragettes in an empty house in Lansdowne Crescent, Bath. Alongside her sister, who was playing violin, Aethel played piano to entertain fellow suffragettes as they spent the night. Later that year, in November, Aethel was sentenced to 14 days imprisonment after breaking a window at the National Liberal Club. Despite vowing that "she disliked very much destroying property", there were further occasions of window-smashing from Aethel, such as in 1913, when Aethel mistakenly threw a stone and hammer at the window of Miss Bonser, neighbour of intended target Home Secretary, Mr McKenna. Aethel and Grace often protested cabinet minister meetings, including one in Trowbridge, in which they disguised themselves as "market women". Following Blathwayt's resignation in 1913, Aethel and Grace Tollemache took over her position as providers of hospitality to visiting WSPU speakers and Grace as Bath branch secretary. In 1914, the sisters were arrested in 1914 outside Buckingham Palace after taking part in the deputation to the King on the 22nd of May. Aethel received a harsher punishment than her sister and went on a hunger and thirst strike in Holloway prison. In July of the same year, with her sister, Aethel organised a garden party which Annie Williams spoke at. When war broke out the sisters committed to doing their part to support the war effort by ploughing their own field for crops. Aethel also revised her position, joining the socialist East London Federation of Suffragettes and becoming a pacifist. In 1917, Aethel was held for questioning in Leytonstone while canvassing for names for the Peace Memorial but released with a warning. In the 1930's the Tollemache's turned part of The Villa into a hostel for hikers. In 1934, they gave lunch to a group of Welsh hunger marchers, who were protesting unemployment. They also offered their home for Labour Party meetings and continued their musical pursuits in and around Bath. Aethel Tollemache passed away in 1955. Sources: J Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote (Manchester, 2014); E Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London 1999); Lucienne Boyce, "Madder than ever": The Tollemache Family of Batheaston. Contributed by Jack Thompson, Undergraduate history researcher, University of Warwick. 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 Aethel Tollemache 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(-259241.8319987059 6692867.65529727) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/548c04a43dded9b625550cd3c8562ed5.jpg a519be891e167f76e8100f3730fb3fd7 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 Springfield House. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/74cee9078820aa5de48b1a37aa2057db.jpg 2f43c86efe5174a511a36e6cc479c4ea 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 Springfield House no longer stands only its gates survive. Courtesy of Historic England www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1197977 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/9e4cf8dd19f1a768d17b1eba6bbb6b28.jpg 1d4520d2c778c7c0e05a665ccbe42574 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 Elizabeth complies with the 1911 census. Courtesy: The National Archives. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/59508d1023062c8ae48f6adca0283630.jpg fe0b1bd3e1019fa7fad376be00aed414 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 Elizabeth defending her family's 'Britishness' during the First World War. Source: The Wiltshire Times, 11 September, 1914. 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 30 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 Springfield, Hilperton Road, Trowbridge 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 Elizabeth Gramlick, referred to as Miss B Gramlich, worked in Trowbridge alongside Lillian Dove-Willcox as co-secretary of West Wiltshire Women’s Social and Political Union. Gramlick was one of several daughters of a wealthy family who resided at Springfield House in 1911. She was born in Vienna, as were her older sisters Emily (34), Martha (33), Minnie (32), Ellen (25) and Mary (24). Her parents were John Thomas Gramlick and Emily Gramlick. In 1901, the census shows them to be at Sea Road, Bournemouth, although they were all noted to be 'visitors'. By 1904, when Elizabeth's mother passed, the family were established in Trowbridge. The 1911 and 1921 census show that the entire family considered Springfield in Trowbridge their primary address during this period. Elizabeth was well known to Bristol and Bath tennis players having been actively connected with the Wiltshire tournament for some years. She was honorary secretary for Wiltshire Lawn Tennis Association in 1908. As part of the committee she dealt with the secretarial work, attended the inauguration of Junior Sports Club in Trowbridge. She also played in these tournaments. She was also involved in West Wilts Moonrakes Ladies' Hockey Club in 1907. In 1914, Elizabeth defending the Gramlick name, she refuted speculation of a Germanic Origin -understandable given the climate of hostility toward those of German extraction during the war. Alongside her sisters, in 1918, Elizabeth as part of the Trowbridge Branch of Girls' Friendly Society was involved in the annual Sale of Work. Elizabeth married in 1935 to John Conyngham McClintock, with the wedding taking place in St Mary's at Bryanston Square in London on the 2nd of March. Elizabeth was given away by Mr G. R. Thursfield and had no bridesmaids. The couple honeymooned in England. As a widow, she passed on the 27th of November,1951, leaving probate to nephews Anthony W. Murray and John J. H. Murray. key sources: copies of The Wiltshire News; J Liddington, Vanishing for the Vote (Manchester, 2014); www.thewomenwhomademe.wordpress.com. Contributed by: Jack Thompson, Undergraduate History Researcher, University of Warwick. 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 Elizabeth Gramlick 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(-244629.14508328855 6678747.96202902) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4313e40858f93c8b41a2247ad940365f.png f7e6c15dc1c8921010f9f26fd76fe66e 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 Lillian Dove Wilcox portrait. 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Courtesy: www.bathintime.co.uk Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Suffragette worker 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 Widow Address The address of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 1 Richmond Terrace, Clifton, Bristol 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 Lillian Dove-Willcox was born in Bedminster, Bristol in 1875. Her mother had been a suffragist and by 1908 (the year her first husband died) Dove-Willcox was a member of the West of England branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. On the 29th of June 1909, she was arrested for taking part in the WSPU deputation to the House of Commons and was sentenced to one month imprisonment. She went on hunger strike and was released. In 1910, Dove-Willcox was invited to Eagle House at Batheaston, where she planted a Picea Orientalis. After WSPU organiser Annie Kenney left Bristol in 1911, Dove-Willcox became honorary secretary of the Bristol branch of the WSPU. She had a country cottage on a hill overlooking the Wye and Tintern where many suffragettes, including Mary Richardson (who slashed the famous painting The Rokeby Venus), went to recuperate from imprisonment. In 1911, Dove-Willcox, Annie Kenney, and Mildred Mansel worked from a house called Ivanhoe, in Bradford Road. In March of 1911, Lillian Dove Willcox stayed in Trowbridge Wiltshire to host a reception for women interested in the suffrage movement at the local Town Hall. She canvassed for the reception throughout West Wiltshire. It was reported by Dove-Willcox to have been a great success with a new West Wilts branch of the WSPU being established. As part of the suffragette boycott of the 1911 census 'No Vote No Census', Dove-Willcox reported that arrangements for an evasion had been made in Trowbridge, which was reported by The Wiltshire Times: “On Sunday night the work of the census was both passively and actively resisted in Trowbridge. Several ladies who are staunch supporters of the Votes for Women movement left their homes and spent the night out – who they were and where they spent the silent watches of the night, we refrain from mentioning.” Lillian Dove-Willcox is believed to have attempted to evade the census by heading out from Bristol into the Wiltshire countryside by caravan as noted on the census form. A census was completed for her at the local town hall on the 7th of April. On the 16th of February 1912, she heckled Bristol MP Charles Hobhouse at an anti-suffrage meeting in Colston Hall. She was a stalwart supporter of the Pankhursts and later became Mrs Pankhurst's bodyguard. On 9 March 1913, she was at St. Andrew's Hall in Glasgow when Pankhurst was arrested. In 1914, at St Pancras, London, Dove-Willcox married journalist Reginald Buckley. She gave birth to a daughter Diana, in 1915. That same year, she also became a member of the East London Federation of Suffragettes a break away society formed by Sylvia Pankhurst. Her husband passed, aged 37, in 1919. She lived at 15 Lyndhurst Road in London by 1947. In 1963, at this point living in The Park, Ealing, she subscribed to the Pethick-Lawrence Memorial Appeal Fund. She died in Ealing the same year. Key sources: E Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide (London 1999); L Boyce, A Suffrage Walk around Clifton Village; J Liddington, Caravanning for the Vote (http://www.jliddington.org.uk/1911b.html). Contributed by: Jack Thompson, Undergraduate History Researcher, University of Warwick. 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Source: ‘How the Women’s Movement Began in Bristol Fifty Years Ago, 1918 ', LSE Digital Library’ https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/c5e3dbdaac209f85252864ef3ec9cfa7.jpg ba3a20c5a13bd9d0fbdb8f76967d834a 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: Morning Post 14 Nov 1892 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/cb8c040f96dd7fe4c5506fbb5e9e3b71.jpg d7a86387f15e6aa3ba1f2704502a6794 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 1911 census. 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Source: The Women's Library Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Wife of Doctor Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 81 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 Chantry, Barton Orchard, Bradford-on-Avon BA15 1LU 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 Agnes was born in Scotland in 1832. She married Dr John Beddoe, a physician and anthropologist, in 1852. She signed the 1866 suffrage petition, which was presented to parliament. She was a member of the first committee of the Bristol and Clifton branch of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, which she remained on until her death. She spoke at talks across the country during the 1880s and presided over the grand demonstration held at Calston Hall in Bristol in 1880. Agnes was involved in the campaign to promote the Married Women's Property Act and lent her drawing room out in 1881 so Frances Power Cobbe could hold a series of lectures on the ‘duties of women’ to Bristolian women. In 1889, she became a member of the executive branch of the NUWSS and was also a member of the Women's Liberal Association. In that same year, she opened ‘Mrs Beddoe’s Working Women's Dwelling’ in Portland Square, Bristol. She let it out to 16 women who paid a sixpence for rent each. She later became a poor law guardian in 1896. While for the most part her activity centred around the NUWSS, she also lent some support to the WSPU, donating a small sum in 1909 and attending a Bath WSPU meeting front row in which Annie Kenney and Mrs Pankhurst were main speakers. Her husband died in 1911, but before his death, he was a supporter of the WSPU and president of the Bristol Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. At the time of the 1911 census, she was living in Chantry House in Bradford upon Avon. Agnes died in 1914. She is featured on a banner honouring the early suffrage campaigners, which is currently held at the LSE Women’s Library. Sources: Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, 1999); Reed, Hayley, 2016. ‘The Women behind the Suffrage Banner’, LSE History - Telling LSE’s Story <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2016/06/08/the-women-behind-suffrage-banner/#:~:text=Agnes%20Montgomerie%20Beddoe%20was%20member,the%20Married%20Women's%20Property%20Act>. Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Agnes Montgomery Beddoe 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(-251159.87089251896 6682767.224238933) NUWSS https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/45ebb7ce288f3a46d023d2f121330dea.jpg 581597e952528c81ed76789c65fa9c64 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 Annie Kenney postcard. Source: Parliamentary Archives, STH/DS/4/9/3 https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5404882615709b48e19f908848f9c611.jpg bcd46b804f451c733ff42054ad82c61c 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 1911 census showing refusal to give information. Source: courtesy The National Archives https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/3fd727ca9d0e1351637b57d2aee032c9.jpg 3355161218e82d39882884709111bdf0 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 Annie Kenney in a car with Mrs Pankhurst. Source: Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (London, UCL Press, 1999). https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/5c026989053a6067cfa5db223040f7c5.jpg 71310a1c79696a0b06a6d10931a79d19 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 Annie on front cover of Suffragette magazine. Source: © The British Library https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/7766bb8ef2a1185bcfd6dcdc21f78fa1.jpg b611daea1904eab40ee5d4652f009691 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 Annie's National Registration Act 1915 certificate. Source & copyright: Estate of Annie Kenney. All rights reserved. Included by kind permission of Warwick Kenney-Taylor (son of Annie Kenney) and later generations of the Kenney and Taylor families. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/51b47143be30aafc5833ec96795f4158.jpg 421044876e930acc8bea1b41ec5c139a 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 Annie Kenney holding her son Warwick. The reverse reads: 'Warwick Kenney Taylor at three months old. Taken Isle of Arran, Scotland, 1921.' Source: Estate of Annie Kenney. All rights reserved. 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Source: image Jim McMahon MP https://www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk/news Person (Campaigner) A record of a person related to the Mapping Women's Suffrage project Occupation Suffragette Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 31 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 9 Whatley Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2PS 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 Annie Kenney was born to Ann Wood and Horatio Kenney in Lancashire in 1879. Three of her sisters, Jessie, Jane and Nell, were also involved in the suffrage movement. She began part-time work in a mill at 10 years old, meaning the image of her as a suffragette mill girl was often used in campaign propaganda to appeal to working class women. After the sudden death of her mother in 1905, she was invited with her sisters to the spring meeting of the Oldham Trades Council, which was focused on the suffrage movement led by Christabel Pankhurst and Teresa Billington. After attending, Annie promised to set up a meeting with other factory women in Oldham and Leeds. On the 13th of October 1905, Annie was arrested with Christabel Pankhurst at a Liberal party meeting held by Winston Churchill and Sir Edward Grey in Manchester. Annie had asked if the Liberals would make Women’s suffrage a government measure, and the pair were removed from the meeting forcibly without getting a reply. Annie was charged with obstruction, and the two refused to pay the fine. instead, being imprisoned due to the publicity it could create. Annie was imprisoned for 3 days before being released. This was one of the first arrests for militancy under the suffrage movement. Her actions led to her being invited to travel to London with Teresa Billington and to pose her question to Sir Edward Grey again. The money for her was raised by raffling a picture of Sylvia Pankhurst and a social gathering of the Manchester Labour Party. She asked Sir Edward Grey again, and when he didn’t reply she interrupted his speech, leading to her being evicted from Albert Hall. Annie helped set up the first WSPU meeting in London, approaching Keir Hardie, W.T. Stead and Isabella Ford to rent out Caxton Hall. Despite her working-class background, Annie was effective at winning over wealthy women to the cause, both Lady Carlisle and Clara Modran were won over by her appeal. The future treasurer Emeline Pethick-Lawrence was also won over by Kenney. On the 9th of March 1906, Annie marched, with Irene Fenwick Miller, Flora Drummond and a group of other suffragettes to 10 Downing Street. They demanded to see the Prime Minister and clung to the railings and door knocker, although the police were called, the Prime Minister didn’t press charges. Annie was arrested a second time in June 1906 after leading a deputation alongside Adelaide Knight and Minnie Baldock outside Henry Asquith’s house. She was imprisoned for 6 weeks, and upon her release, she did a lecture around Yorkshire and Lancashire. After the success of the first women’s parliament in February 1907, she went back to Lancashire with fellow suffragette Adela Pankhurst to mobilise female textile workers. Many of these women travelled to London for the second women's parliament in March, and 75 of them were arrested outside parliament. Annie was made WSPU Organiser in 1907, being paid £2 a week. On her arrival, she was helped by Bristol suffragettes Anna Maria and Mary Priestman (see map) among others. She spoke at the first WSPU meeting in Bath hosted by Mary Blathwayt, with whom she was close friends and stayed with on many occasions. Mary Blathwayt and Christabel Pankhurst were both heavily influenced by Kenney. Annie resisted the 1911 census while living in Bristol, citing her occupation as a suffragette and refusing to provide any more information. She claimed to have housed a large group of resistors, but the evidence makes this uncertain. After the window-smashing campaign in 1912 that led to Christabel fleeing to France due to warrants being out for the WSPU leaders, Kenney became the surrogate leader, regularly travelling to France each weekend. This continued until she was arrested in April 1913 for inciting a riot. She was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment but was released under the Cat and Mouse Act due to her hunger strike. This led to a recurring pattern of re-arrests, hunger strikes and releases. In August 1913, her frail state after a hunger strike was used by the WSPU as she was brought to meetings on stretchers. After this event, she evaded until she tried to seek sanctuary with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who refused. After this and until the outbreak of war, she evaded the police before leaving for America to help suffrage campaigns in Dakota, Montana and Nevada. Throughout the war, she supported multiple Pankhurst campaigns before resigning in 1918 from helping the Pankhursts after Christabel's failed election campaign. She married John Taylor in 1920, whom she met on the Isle of Arran. They had a son, Warwick Kenney Taylor, in 1921, and Annie resigned from the suffrage movement to live a quiet domestic life dedicated to caring for her son. She died in 1952, aged 73. In 2018, a statue of Kenney was erected in Oldham to honour her pivotal role in the movement. Sources: Liddington, Jill, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census Manchester, 2014); Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London, 1999); News, BBC. 2018. ‘Annie Kenney: Statue to Mark “Overlooked” Suffragette’, BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-45918651> [accessed 9 June 2025]; Coughlan, Sean. 2018. ‘Imprisoned Suffragette Letter Discovered’, BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45576262> [accessed 9 June 2025]. Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Annie Kenney 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(-290850.6037335786 6703913.603399612) WSPU https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/4486c4536ffa772efd88417fdaec6f36.jpg 2e0b2b32d8c245439ecf9180411bfdc1 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 Lilian Lenton. Source & credit: Creative Commons https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/6138887a24bfffaf3d9cbae77c142166.jpg f8381ceb2efed72ac1fd1df8eb57bd4e 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 burned down pavilion at Kew. Source & credit: Creative Commons. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/de4601b84c3d30701e51974ffb2e7838.jpg b77bdb2e359e06dbd93b0a168cf12445 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 Lilian Lenton recovering from imprisonment. Source: © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of The British Library Board. https://olive-civet.lnx.warwick.ac.uk/files/original/2d6ff47de7ec87dd2165acce4d24b0fa.jpg 819fe4c84f7888d081dd59f2d4c21aee 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 Dancer Age The age of this person at the time of the 1911 UK Census 20 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 Pennywell Rd, St Jude's, Bristol BS5 0SR 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 Lilian Ida Lenton was born in 1891 in Leicester to Isaac and Mahalah Lenton. She evaded the 1911 census with her mother while living at 32 Pennywell Road in Bristol. The location on the map is approximated due to extensive redevelopment. She joined the WSPU in 1912 after turning 21 and completing her education. She was first arrested as ‘Ida Inkley’ for participating in a WSPU window-smashing campaign and imprisoned for 2 months. When the WSPU continued militancy in 1913, she set fire to the tea pavilion at Kew Gardens with the help of fellow suffragette Olive Wharry. After being arrested, she went on a hunger strike for 2 days, during which she was forcibly fed by a nasal tube. She was released after falling ill due to food entering her lungs. The home secretary faced criticism for claiming it was her hunger strike that led to her illness, and she was not force-fed, despite Home Office papers clearly detailing Lilian Lenton being force-fed. She avoided recapture after her recovery but was re-arrested in Doncaster as ‘May Dennis’ for being on the premises of an unoccupied house that was on fire. Lilian Lenton was released from Armley prison after a multiple-day hunger strike in which she was not forcibly fed. She again escaped police, leading to Leeds police publishing a damming report on how she has evaded their control. She escaped by private yacht to France, leading to the Home Office releasing a wanted picture of Lenton. She returned to England soon after her escape to be rearrested at Paddington station in 1913 after trying to claim a bike from lost property. She again went on a hunger strike and was forcibly fed until her release, where she avoided recapture until the 22nd of December 1913 after setting fire to a house in Cheltenham. After hunger and thirst striking again, she was released into the care of Mrs Impey in Birmingham on Christmas Day. She recalled in an interview with the BBC in 1960 that there was a gap between the Cheltenham police ‘depositing’ her at the house and the arrival of Birmingham police to survey the house and prevent her escape until she could be rearrested under the cat and mouse act. She used that gap to escape and described the Birmingham police as ‘surrounding the house watching for the mouse that had already escaped’. She evaded police until May 1914, when she was arrested in Birkenhead but soon released under the Cat and Mouse act due to Lenton's hunger strike. She was not arrested again as she avoided recapture until the WSPU ended their militancy in August 1914 because of the outbreak of war. Lenton later expressed in a BBC interview that she was not satisfied with the terms of the women's vote granted in 1918, as she could not vote for many years despite being over 30, as she didn’t have a husband or meet the property qualifications. During the First World War, Lenton worked in Serbia with the Scottish Women's Hospital unit and later worked for the British Embassy in Stockholm. From 1924-33, she was a travelling organiser and speaker for the Women’s Freedom League, editing the WFL bulletin. In 1970, she helped unveil a memorial to the women who fought for the vote in Christchurch Gardens, Westminster. She died in 1972, aged 84. Liddington, Jill, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census (Manchester, 2014); Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 18661928 (London, 1999); ‘BBC Archive 1960: Lilian Lenton Suffragettes’ (2024)BBC <https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/c72p2n2479go>; ‌Bell, Bethan (2018) ‘Actresses and Arsonists: Women Who Won the Vote’, BBC News <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42635771> .Contributed by Becca Aspden, URSS student researcher, History Dept., Warwick University. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lilian Lenton 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(-286873.1073318325 6703196.359415113) WSPU