Suffragettes

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Letter in English from Caroline Louise Lorimer to "Netty" on the subject of Janet Alice Chalmers's holiday and the suffragette movement dated 9 October 1887.

Scope and Contents This letter from Christabel Pankhurst to Mrs. Morrow [Hove], written 23 November 1913, from 11 avenue de la Grande Armee, Paris, discusses fund raising efforts and the appalling condition suffered by imprisoned suffragettes: 'This collection gives to all WSPU members and friends an opportunity to make a united demonstration of the kind which will impress the Government and the public and will prove the utter futility of torture [...] The prisoners are doing their part. It is for the rest of...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of an academic medal and suffragist badges and pins belonging to Margaret Ida Balfour (1866-1945), a Scottish medical doctor and early campaigner for women's medical issues in Great Britain and India. Silver medal awarded to Margaret Ida Balfour by the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, for the "Practice of Medicine", "R. W. Philip M.D., F.R.C.P.E. Lecturer", session...

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Documents relating to the writing and work of animal rights campaigner and suffragette, Frances Power Cobbe.

1. A portrait photographs of Frances Power Cobbe, dated 1894 2. two copies of "Light in Dark Places", an anti vivisection pamphlet published by the British Union for Abolition of Vivisection, 1901 3. "The Devine Law of Love in its application to the relations of man to the lower animals", 3rd edition, not dated.

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11 Photographs of Frances Helen Simson M. A. LL. D. (1854-1838) first woman M. A. in Scotland. Includes photographs of relatives and of Frances when she was young.

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Photograph from the Daily Mirror, 4 June 1919, of the suffragette, Emily Davison knocked down by George V's horse, Anmer during the Epsom Derby, Tattenham Course.