Save the date! The next 19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed "At Home" online talks will be on Sunday, June 30, "focused on photography and its connections to 19th century fashion".
Programme:
📸 Robyne Calvert: Artists & Photographic Fantasies
📸 Erika Lederman: 'Counterfeit Specimens'. Isabel Agnes Cowper's Needlework Photographs for the South Kensington Museum
📸 Beatrice Behlen: Mrs Broom's photographs of suffragettes
This week, I started writing The Ninety-Three, a murder-mystery set in 1918, during the closing months of the Great War. The narrator is Dr Anna Richards, a sociologist, suffragette and socialite. The story opens in Downing Street with someone hurling a brick through the prime minister’s window…
All that remains of Duke Street Prison on the East End of Glasgow. Originally opened in 1798, it finally closed in 1957 and was demolished shortly afterwards. It was an early example of the Separate System introduced in the early 19th Century which was based around keeping prisoners in solitary confinement.
In 1882, Duke Street became a women's prison when male prisoners were moved to the newly built Barlinnie Prison. It was here that many Scottish suffragettes were imprisoned during their campaign for equal voting rights. When the prison was being demolished, a cast-iron umbrella stand painted in the suffragette colours which was rescued and is now housed in the Glasgow Women's Library in Bridgeton.
ON international womens day, i want to introduce some feminist icons from the roaring twenties in Holland, a wonderful collection of stories and portraits!
From the exhibition "The new woman" at Singer Laren museum.
Edith Margaret #Garrud, born Edith Margaret Williams, was one of the first female martial arts teachers in Europe. She is known for training a unit of bodyguards in #jūjutsu techniques for the Women's Social and Political Union, so that they could respond to physical attacks on them by some anti-feminist men.
Happy Monday! We'll be sharing a weekly photograph of George Lansbury from the archives.
Here is George with his daughter Daisy Postage. As well as working as her father's secretary, Daisy was an activist and was involved in the suffragette movement. She famously dressed up as Sylvia Pankhurst to help the real Sylvia Pankhurst evade capture from the police.
Today I learned that women who demanded the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland ran a three-year bombing and arson campaign to that end. Five people were killed and 24 wounded in the 1912–14 attacks. This was led by militant suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, a name I’d heard but about whom I could have told you nothing. It wasn’t until 1928 that all adult women got the right to vote there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette_bombing_and_arson_campaign
I no longer have access to journals, but as a professor you could probably read it if you'd like. If you do read the article, I'd be interested to know what you conclusions you draw.