ISBN: PB: 9781908684097
Legend Times Group, University of Buckingham Press
June 2013
312 pp.
23,6x15,6 cm
PB:
18.99 GBP
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Burning to Get The Vote
The Women's Suffrage Movement in Central Buckinghamshire, 1904-1914
"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.
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.
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.