William Collins talk 'The Untold History of Universal Suffrage in the UK' is highly recommended for those wishing to look further into the myth of suffragette heroism. I think it's still available on YouTube.
I know from local history research of a campaign of terror which included the bombing of the main Post Office in Newport, South Wales, by a cohort of suffragettes imported from London. Some of these remained to proselytise among the working class coal mining towns, where - especially as their main activity seems to have consisted of handing out white feathers to teenage boys in chapel during the early years of World War One - they were given very short shrift, recognised for the elitist change agents they were.
William Collins talk 'The Untold History of Universal Suffrage in the UK' is highly recommended for those wishing to look further into the myth of suffragette heroism. I think it's still available on YouTube.
I know from local history research of a campaign of terror which included the bombing of the main Post Office in Newport, South Wales, by a cohort of suffragettes imported from London. Some of these remained to proselytise among the working class coal mining towns, where - especially as their main activity seems to have consisted of handing out white feathers to teenage boys in chapel during the early years of World War One - they were given very short shrift, recognised for the elitist change agents they were.