Votes for Women in Plymouth: Lesson Five
Emmeline Pankhurst was the leader of the Suffragettes. Because she was a violent protester, she was arrested seven times before women were allowed to vote. One of the times she was arrested was in Sutton Harbour in Plymouth, after travelling back to England from America. But Mrs Pankhurst wasn’t just famous as a violent protestor, […]
Votes for Women in Plymouth: Lesson Four
Agnes Weston is most famous for setting up the Sailor’s Rests, which were so important that they received a Royal warrant from Queen Victoria in the 1980s and became Royal Sailor’s Rests. Agnes, or ‘Aggie’ was a member of the National Temperance League – and believed that people should abstain from alcohol. She set up […]
Votes for Women in Plymouth: Lesson Three
The image above and the images below show suffragist protests from the early 1900s. They were taken by an officer in the Navy and now are looked after by The Box so that researchers like you can study them. First, look at the photos themselves. You may think they’re supportive of the suffragist movement. They […]
Votes for Women in Plymouth: Lesson Two
Frances Latimer was a prominent writer for the Western Herald, the newspaper her husband owned. Although we don’t know much about her, we do know that she thought the suffragists were doing a good thing and wanted to support them. Mrs Latimer also realised the importance of convincing not just the upper class (the richest […]
Votes for Women in Plymouth: Lesson One
During Victorian times and before computers and mobile phones, if you wanted to talk to your friends you’d often go and visit them for dinner parties. Among the middle or upper classes it was popular to play ‘parlour games’ after dinner. The Autograph Book in the image is an example of one of these games, […]
Votes for Women in Plymouth – Introduction
Today in the UK, everybody is allowed to vote as long as they’ve been living in the country long enough and they’re old enough. But this wasn’t always the case. In 1918 women won the right to vote and before this they weren’t allowed to. The Act of Parliament that allowed women to vote didn’t […]