Emmeline Pankhurst

A great statue to remember Emmeline Pankhurst who fought hard for women to be able to vote in the suffragette movement.
Apr 29th, 2023

Aug 13th, 2022

Jul 24th, 2022

Jul 14th, 2022

Historical interest, but most contemporary supporters of womens rights did not support her. Here is one of them: In the years immediately preceding the first great war, the period of militant suffragist disturbance was gradually displaced by a period of militant suffragist outrage. All over the country, attempts, frequently wholly successful, were made to destroy by fire buildings of note. Several lovely old churches were burned to the ground. But churches were easy money, for the house of God cares for itself by night. A bomb was placed and exploded in Westminster Abbey, damaging the Coronation Chair. The greens of well-known golf-courses were ravaged beyond repair. One summer evening half the windows of Old Bond Street were smashed to smithereens, to the great provocation of their owners and of all who passed that way. His Majestys mails were burned, to the loss and inconvenience of His subjects, high and low. The running of The Derby was interfered with and at Tattenham Corner the Kings horse was brought down. As a result of this vulgar and intolerable behaviour, the tide of the public temper was running high, and, had a plebiscite been taken in 1913, there can be no shadow of doubt that the voting against Womens Suffrage would have been at least fifty to one. Then, in the twinkling of an eye, came the first great war. And throughout that war the women of England pulled far more than their weight. With the result that, when the war was over and the electors were asked whether women should have the vote, most people felt they deserved it and said as much. But the British memory is notoriously short. And so, in the fullness of time, it came about that the women who inspired and directed conduct so monstrous as to kill their cause, are now most honourably mentioned as creditors to whom all women owe their right to vote. -DY
Dec 16th, 2022