Burning to Get the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Central Buckinghamshire 1904-1914 - Softcover

Cartwright, Colin

 
9781908684097: Burning to Get the Vote: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Central Buckinghamshire 1904-1914
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908684097 ISBN 13: 9781908684097
Publisher: University of Buckingham Press, 2013

Synopsis

"Burning to get the Vote" was the message left by suffragettes in March 1913 after they fire-bombed Saunderton Station.

This book draws on original research to re-create the suffrage campaign in Buckinghamshire of a century ago and brings alive the struggles of some notorious and some less well-known figures in the women's fight for the vote.

Muriel Matters, Hugh Franklin and Frances Dove were key figures in this local and national struggle, which involved public meetings, propaganda and a pilgrimage, as well as more extreme methods: tax evasion, window-smashing and arson.

This is a popular but thorough local history of the suffrage movement, unearthing previously undiscovered evidence and tracing the trajectories of both the law-abiding National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the militant Women's Social & Political Union in the county.

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Review

Inspired by a chance discovery of an interview with his great-grandfather in a newspaper archive, Colin Cartwright has researched the history of a stirring time of change in our democracy: when women gained the right to vote... --The Rt. Hon. Cheryl Gillan, MP

Colin Cartwright s careful analysis is both innovative and important --Richard Pankhurst

About the Author

Rev Colin Cartwight is a Baptist minister who has lived in the Chilterns since 2000. He is a local historian, photographer, keen cyclist and dog-walker. He has also devised six heritage walking trails which trace the relatively unknown history of the women s suffrage movement in Bucks and include significant events such as the fire-bombing of Saunderton Station, proson protest in Aylesbury and the march of the National Women s Suffrage Pigrimage.

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Publisher
University of Buckingham Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1908684097
ISBN 13 
9781908684097
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
312