Burning to Get the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Central Buckinghamshire 1904-1914 - Couverture souple

Cartwright, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908684097 ISBN 13 : 9781908684097

Editeur : The University of Buckingham Press, 2013

Synopsis

"Burning to get the Vote" was the message left by suffragettes in March 1913 after they fire-bombed Saunderton Station.
This book draws on original research to re-create the suffrage campaign in Buckinghamshire of a century ago and brings alive the struggles of some notorious and some less well-known figures in the women's fight for the vote.
Muriel Matters, Hugh Franklin and Frances Dove were key figures in this local and national struggle, which involved public meetings, propaganda and a pilgrimage, as well as more extreme methods: tax evasion, window-smashing and arson.

This is a popular but thorough local history of the suffrage movement, unearthing previously undiscovered evidence and tracing the trajectories of both the law-abiding National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the militant Women's Social & Political Union in the county.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Burning to get the Vote was the message left by suffragettes in March 1913 when they fire-bombed Saunderton Station near Princes Risborough. This book draws on original research to re-create the suffrage campaign in Buckinghamshire of a century ago, and brings alive the struggles of some notorious and some less well-known figures in the women's fight for the vote. Muriel Matters, Hugh Franklin and Frances Dove were key figures in this local and national struggle, which in Buckinghamshire involved many public meetings, propaganda and a pilgrimage, as well as more extreme methods like: tax evasion, window-smashing and arson. Here is a popular but thorough local history of the suffrage movement, tracing the trajectories of both the law-abiding National Union of Women s Suffrage Societies and the militant Women s Social & Political Union in the county. It unearths previously undiscovered evidence: the activities of the only WSPU branch in Buckinghamshire and of the Tax Resistance League, who used local hero, John Hampden, as their inspiration; plus revelations from local papers such as earlier-than-thought WSPU pillar box arson attacks, and a regular column by a suffragette, illuminating the experience of a WSPU campaigner.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rev Colin Cartwight is a Baptist minister who has lived in the Chilterns since 2000. He is a local historian, photographer, keen cyclist and dog-walker. He has also devised six heritage walking trails which trace the relatively unknown history of the women s suffrage movement in Bucks and include significant events such as the fire-bombing of Saunderton Station, proson protest in Aylesbury and the march of the National Women s Suffrage Pigrimage.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Buckingham Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908684097
• ISBN 13: 9781908684097
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible