Women’s voices & stories should be at the forefront of our culture, not hidden in the background. Help us ensure their stories are remembered 👉 Enquire about Wiki Workshops today, hello@protestsandsuffragettes.com
Wikipedia Workshops are part of Protests and Suffragettes commitment to knowledge activism and continually raising the profile of Scottish Suffragettes & Changemakers.
— and Becky Male, GWL volunteer and brilliant Wiki-editor, spoke about her work editing the Suffragette Penny and Hunger Strike Medal Wikipedia articles!
These workshops were supported by @TNLCommunityFundScotland @TNLCommunityFund & WikimediaUK
One of our workshops, found us collaborating with the incredible folks @womenslibrary, where we got to see Maud Joachim's hunger strike medal up close, and Sue John shared about fundraising for its purchase 🏅 It was incredible to see this piece of Scottish herstory secured
#throwbacktuesdays Today we’re casting our mind to the series of Wikipedia Workshops 🗣️ we ran in back 2023! In collaboration w/ multiple community partners 🤝
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🗣 Shoutout to the amazing @perthwomenonwikipedia ,who were highlighted in an article by the National on Tuesday, in which we also got a wee mention!
The work they’re doing to write women back into Perth’s mighty history – is incredible, essential and glorious. Congrats to Gill Ryan & all involved
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📚 🗣 Protests & Suffragettes Book Review: Red Duchess: Kitty Atholl, A Rebel in Westminster. — Amy Gray, History Press.
We enjoyed learning more about this fascinating and complex trailblazer who deserves to be better known, read our full review of Amy Gray's new book @bellacaledonia.bsky.social
Thank you to the team from @scotsuffragette.bsky.social for their Red Duchess review on Bella Caledonia:
"Amy Gray does a fine job of bringing Kitty to life... Red Duchess is historical storytelling at its best with relevance for the political times we live in"
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👋’Lo there! We loved learning more about Kitty through your excellent writing ~ & good to be in touch here on 🦋
Last Saturday we had an incredible time taking part in @girlguidingscot Cityscapes Adventure in Glasgow! 💪💜
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Whilst some may debate the effectiveness of the boycott, it certainly focused the public’s attention on the fight for Women’s Suffrage— which would continue for another 17 years, until 1928 when all women were granted the right to vote.
The first slide shows women gathered together, sleeping in one room, to avoid being counted at their houses. Protests like this were held up and down the country in Bristol, Ipswich, Reading, Cardiff, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Manchester.
Across the UK, thousands gathered away from their homes to avoid being recorded. Some wrote messages of protest and support for the vote on Census forms, refusing to list the people in the property. Some messages may have included: ‘No Vote, No Census’
Published in a Votes for Women Newspaper, refusing to be counted in the census provided “an immediate opportunity for recording our protest as women against a Government that legislates without consent. It is an act of passive resistance to a great and intolerable wrong.” [2nd Slide, NLS]
OTD in 1911 the Women’s Freedom League organised a boycott of the 1911 Census. 💪
Protesting against women’s lack of full citizenship, the Women’s Freedom League organised and promoted a boycott of the 1911 Census, urging women and men who supported them to refuse to be counted.
These posters were co-created by the P&S team and amazing local people in Creative Workshops – which we’ll be doing more of soon!! Three of the posters in the series feature quotes in Arabic, Farsi, or Polish.
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An activist, historian and author- she believed it was important to preserve and record Scottish women’s culture and heritage.
Eunice Murray and other exceptional changemakers are highlighted in our 💥Scottish Suffragette Poster Series 💥
In 1918 she became the first Scottish woman to stand for election to Parliament. Murray stood in Glasgow Bridgeton as an independent candidate, the only woman to stand in Scotland at the election.
She joined the Women’s Freedom League in 1908, and by 1913 she was president of it’s Scottish Council, becoming a leading figure in the Suffrage movement.
OTD Eunice Guthrie Murray MBE Died in 1960.
Eunice was an exceptional public speaker who toured the UK by caravan, spreading the word about women’s rights; she held a number of key roles in organising the Scottish Suffrage Movement.
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Saturday March 28th, 10-11am the P&S team will be discussing the approaching 2028 Centenary of the Equal Franchise Act, which saw all women in the UK given the right to vote. What does this mean for P&S? What is our vision to celebrate this incredible milestone?
It’s been a busy month here at P&S HQ & right off the back of our in-person event — Acting Up: Singing Suffragettes & Visioning Our Future— The P&S Team have been working to prepare our March Live Gathering!
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As Women’s History Month draws to a close- we hope you've been celebrating the incredible women you know and remember.
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