Comments on: The East End Suffragette Map

By: Marnie

Marnie — Tue, 28 May 2024 03:15:15 +0000

George Lansbury was Angela Lansbury’s grandfather.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:10:24 +0000

Such an important historical archive, which helps redress the balance and puts working class people, especially working class women, and the East End at the centre of social and political change.

These days, so many people have become disillusioned by politics – and politicians – but it is so important that everyone uses their vote. I hope people don’t away throw their hard earned right to do so. In the UK, we have a very important election coming up.

Remember Sylvia Pankhurst and her East End allies, who sacrificed so much for the cause of ‘Votes For Women.’

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:06:20 +0000

Brilliant timing! I am currently working on a series of collages based on Suffragettes. As you mentioned above, my depth of knowledge on this subject was sketchy at first. My research has lead me to so many remarkable life stories. My goal is to tell the stories of little-known figures in the Movement, as well as the name brands. It’s bottomless!

It often seems that “all roads lead” to Suffragettes. I read a book about The Wright Brothers, and became enthralled with their younger sister, Katharine. As the Brothers toiled
(and innovated) she was sent to Europe to be their factotum. Europe’s interest in aviation was
way ahead of America’s, and Ms. Wright ingratiated herself with the Whos Who, appearing at all-male aviation enclaves and conferences, establishing herself as the toast of the Continent, etc. Later in life, she turned her considerable influence to good causes including Votes For Women. Oh wow — that Katharine!

My collage exhibit will be in the Fall, and am so grateful for today’s post and the additional
insights. Thank you, GA. You’re a mind reader.

By: Ann Vosper

Ann Vosper — Mon, 27 May 2024 11:56:57 +0000

Thank you GA, Vicky Stewart and Adam Tuck for today’s blog. I think most people think that Suffragettes just marched with banners and threw bricks at windows. This is far from the truth. In 1914 Emmeline Pankhurst published a book ‘Suffragette. My own story. The origins of the Suffragette.’ I read the book five years ago after it was published by Hesperus Press in 2016. The Suffragette Movement went on for decades and the treatment some of the women suffered, mostly at the hands of men, was horrendous. I would like to see every 16 year old student read the book at school so that they are aware just what these women went through to win the vote for all women.

By: GB28

GB28 — Mon, 27 May 2024 05:24:26 +0000

The story of the suffragettes is told in a 6 part BBC series ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ currently available on the BBC iplayer. Made in the 1970s and starring Sian Philips as Emmeline Pankhurst, it covers a lot of ground including Sylvia Pankhurst’s work in the East end.