March of the Women
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'The March of the Women: Surrey's Road to the Vote' project @SurreyHeritage was supported by @HeritageFundUK and is now closed, future enquiries @SurreyHeritage
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Sophia & Giles Pilcher overcame personal tragedy to become stalwarts of the #Godalming #Suffrage campaign. Discover their part in Surrey’s road to the vote with our latest March of the Women biog page bit.ly/2lWyA2E #Vote100 Visit Godalming Surrey History Centre Love Godalming
Suffragist, Radical and #vegetarian, Charlotte Despard was the ‘Grand Dame’ of the #suffrage campaign. Discover more about this #Surrey resident with the latest March of the Women biography page bit.ly/2m8Ddqr Surrey History Centre Elizabeth Crawford Suffrage Pioneers kathy history
From our Surrey History Centre Library collection is this superb photo of Mrs Pankhurst’s statue at Burton’s Foundry, Thames Ditton, c.1930. The statue was unveiled in 1930, in Victoria Tower Gardens, and Ethel Smyth conducted the Metropolitan Police band. Dame Ethel Smyth Elmbridge BC
Suffragette, Fascist, Anti-Vivisectionist & Independent candidate for Richmond in the 1918 General Election – our latest March of the Women biography reveals more about Claygate resident Norah Dacre Fox bit.ly/2mf8nN1 Surrey History Centre Elizabeth Crawford Suffrage Pioneers
As #suffrage supporters were boycotting the 1911 census, Constance Maud of Sanderstead, #suffragette & member of the Women Writers Suffrage League, was writing 'No Surrender'. Read more with our March of the Women biog page bit.ly/2mQavuW Persephone Books Surrey History Centre
See our updated March of the Women Project page for everything that the project has accomplished, from newly catalogued #suffrage archives, learning resources, online exhibition, and outreach events to the Surrey museums audit bit.ly/2syfgtg Surrey History Centre The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Sir William & Lady Julia Chance of #Godalming drove the #Surrey #suffrage campaign. They lobbied politicians, bombarded the press and hosted pilgrims on the Great Pilgrimage in 1913. Read our new biog page bit.ly/2OOZYfv Surrey History Centre Visit Godalming Mapping Women's Suffrage
Lifelong suffragist Eleanor Sidgwick was Principal of Newnham College & one of the first women appointed to a Royal Commission. Read our latest biog page about this remarkable Woking resident bit.ly/31wZJbO Surrey History Centre We Love Woking Wonderful Woking Newnham College
Congratulations to Priors Field School for launching their Archive Online bit.ly/35YLJek! Suffragist Julia Huxley, mother of Aldous, founded the school and the website contains 5000 digitised pages of school publications from 1908 onwards Prior's Field - the place to achieve! Surrey History Centre
Our latest March of the Women index is now live! Featuring Surrey people and organisations mentioned in the NUWSS newspaper Common Cause, 1910-1914, it includes Helena Auerbach of Reigate, treasurer of the NUWSS bit.ly/2AYRiev surrey Heritage @SurreyFedWI Mapping Women's Suffrage
Our final March of the Women project index is now live! It features 2070 references to #Surrey #Suffrage organisations, 1867-1927, taken from local newspapers, periodicals & 'Common Cause' bit.ly/2AYRiev. Huge thanks to our fab volunteers! Surrey History Centre Mapping Women's Suffrage
Women turned out in their thousands to first vote in a General Election on 14th December 1918, outnumbering men by 20 to 1 in some areas. Find out how Surrey women responded in our latest March of the Women info page bit.ly/2pqRC3c Surrey History Centre Vote 100 UK Parliament
This new discovery from the Surrey History Centre archives is a fabulous early studio photograph dated 1866 of Bertha Broadwood, of Capel, aged 20. Bertha was a business woman and philanthropist in her own right and also an anti suffragist bit.ly/2Y0ogce kathy history
Can you help us identify if this photo is Reigate suffragist, geologist & Newnham graduate, Margaret Chorley Crosfield. It was taken at Godstone Heathstone Quarry by friend and colleague Mary S. Johnston, 16 June 1900 Surrey History Centre Geologists' Assoc Newnham College British Science Association
Today is the last chance to register to vote in the forthcoming General Election bit.ly/2XPd0Mu #Register2vote Surrey History Centre UK Parliament
The original #BlackFriday on 18 Nov 1910 saw 300 women march in London for #Suffrage, witnessing 100+ arrests & Police brutality. Sunbury’s 'Tricycle Suffragette' Rosa May Billinghurst was there on that dark day bit.ly/2ORbUfc Surrey History Centre Mapping Women's Suffrage LSE Library
Our March of the Women project web pages have now been finalised! Follow the growth of the #suffrage movement across #Surrey from the early years and activism, to opposition and women finally gaining the Vote, bit.ly/2Z4sOvy Surrey History Centre The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Women had been studying at universities for years but #OTD in 1919 with the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, they could be awarded degrees and enter professions. Find out more bit.ly/2Q6PBmb. A very Merry Xmas to all our March of the Women supporters! Surrey History Centre