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Womens suffrage

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

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Agnes Lake papers, 1908 - 2012

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF 8/1/6
Scope and Contents

The bulk of the material charts nine months in the life of Agnes Lake from her arrest in April 1913 to her release from prison in December 1913, including an account of her imprisonment and correspondence with Christabel Pankhurst. The collection also includes three suffrage sashes and miscellaneous pamphlets and cuttings relating generally to the campaign for women's suffrage.

Dates: 1908 - 2012
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Beatrice and Edith Clayton Pepper papers, 1862 - 1997

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF 8/1/8
Scope and Contents

The papers, photographs and artefacts listed here relate to the two sisters' suffrage activities and to suffrage activities generally, including miscellaneous materials relating to Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst. There are also a number of papers of general biographical interest, not only on Beatrice and Edith but also on the Pepper family generally.

Dates: 1862 - 1997
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Higher Education of Women, 1880 - 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CUR 61-61.2
Scope and Contents From the Series: The University Registry guard books were assembled from the 1860s onwards to accommodate loose papers and are the precursors to modern subject files. They comprise documents of all kinds on every aspect of University administration; for example, accounting, professorships, degrees, University officers, property, Colleges, and relations with the town of Cambridge. There are lists of the contents compiled by Registrary Luard (1862-91) and successors at the front of each volume. Titles are...
Dates: 1880 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Homerton College Archive

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Reference Code: GBR/3243/HOM
Dates: 1761 - 2020
Conditions Governing Access: Access to some of these records are restricted under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018, as they contain personal and / or medical data about living individuals. Some of the records in this collection are CLOSED.
Please see individual descriptions for further details or contact the College archivist at archives@homerton.cam.ac.uk.
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Incidents in the Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF 8/1/4
Scope and Contents File containing the following:1) Incidents in the Women's Suffrage Campaign: 5 page typescript account written by Nellie Crocker [circa 1940], detailing Women's Social and Political Union [WSPU] activities during various election campaigns, including a bye-election in Retford, Nottinghamshire; also describes deputations to the House of Commons and mentions sympathetic response from some men, including the Westminster police [an electronic transcription is available - see the details...
Dates: 1940 - 1949
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John Massie: Letters to him

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8988
Scope and Contents Correspondence received by Massie on Liberal politics, women's suffrage, biblical studies, and education. Notable correspondents include the politicians Joseph Chamberlain, William Gladstone and Arthur Wellesley Peel, and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett. The correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by name of sender with 'miscellanea' placed at the end of the correspondence. The whole collection has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct...
Dates: 1870-1928 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, The majority of folios date from 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/2
Scope and Contents

Subjects include: Clementine's health and her second pregnancy [with Randolph Churchill]; an attack on Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] by suffragettes on the road to Stirling [Scotland]; Clementine's low opinion of Arthur Balfour; the deportation of a Mr Cole from British East Africa [later Kenya and Uganda]; delivering a speech at Swanage on Churchill's behalf [during the by-election campaign of Churchill's cousin Henry Guest for East Dorset, 1910].

Dates: The majority of folios date from 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lady Churchill's letters to Sir Winston, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 1/16
Scope and Contents Subjects include: a stay with Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys] at Lou Sueil, Eze [France], March-April 1928, with Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough] after Clementine had been ill [with mastoiditis]; the bickering between Lord Blandford [later 10th Duke of Marlborough] and his wife Mary; Cabinet's agreement with Churchill's scheme for deregulation of local taxation; Churchill's abstention from voting in...
Dates: 1928
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Letter from Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) to the Editor of 'The Times', 1890 - 1926

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8781/524
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A protest against the tone of a leader on the female suffrage demonstration

Dates: 1890 - 1926
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters to Churchill and Clementine, 1909 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/13
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Knollys, Private Secretary to King Edward VII and King George V, on subjects including an exhibition which Churchill had arranged in Vienna [Austria], 1909, King Edward's sympathy for Sir William Crossman and his approval of Churchill offering him a job, congratulations on the handling of the Newport dock strike and King George's wish to be kept informed of strikes (2); Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], congratulating Churchill on his majority at Dundee...
Dates: 1909 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Marion Wallace-Dunlop papers, 1899 - 2009

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF 8/1/11
Scope and Contents

The drawings, papers and photographs listed here relate to Marion Wallace-Dunlop's writing and artwork as well as her suffragist activities and include original line drawings for 'Fairies, Elves and Flower Babies'.

Dates: 1899 - 2009
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Personal Papers of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1801 - 2000

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Bodichon
Scope and Contents The papers of Madame Bodichon are dispersed. A number are held at Girton, having reached the College as gifts, mainly from the Leigh Smith family, and by purchase. The bulk of the papers at Girton consists of letters from Emily Davies to Bodichon for the period 1865-1887. Early letters relate, on the whole, to the activities of the Langham Place Circle, the English Woman’s Journal, and the Kensington Society, later letters to the foundation and day-to-day organisation of Girton College....
Dates: 1801 - 2000
Conditions Governing Access: Access is open to bona fide scholars by appointment only.
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Personal Papers of Bessie Rayner Parkes, 1654 - 2006

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Parkes
Scope and Contents The papers have been acquired by Girton College in several deposits. The original batch was arranged and listed in 1985 and consists of personal writings, diary fragments, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and unpublished material for a biography of Bessie's early life. Additional papers donated in 2013 were arranged and listed in 2014: these comprise chiefly papers of and relating to Louise Swanton Belloc and family. Correspondence forms a large percentage of the archive (perhaps about...
Dates: 1654 - 2006
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Personal Papers of Sarah Emily Davies, 1856 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCPP Davies
Scope and Contents The papers include the Family Chronicle (an account of family and other matters written by Davies in 1905, covering the years 1847-68) and papers relating to the following: London University degrees for women; Elizabeth Garrett and medical examinations; the Victoria Magazine, 1863-4; the London School Board, 1870-73; the Schools Enquiry Commission, 1864-70; admission of girls to local examinations, 1858-69; the London Association of Schoolmistresses and the Kensington Society, 1866-69;...
Dates: 1856 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: Open to bona fide scholars and by appointment only.
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Various correspondence, 1912 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/15
Scope and Contents Letters to Clementine from: Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on her health and thanking her for her hospitality (2); [Emma] Margot Asquith, congratulating her on her letter to the Times ["Ought not women to be abolished?" in answer to Sir Almroth Wright's article "Should women have votes?"]; Sir Edward Grey complimenting her on her hunting, on his pleasure at staying in the Churchills' house in Eccleston Square [London], 1913, on the birth of Sarah Churchill [later Sarah...
Dates: 1912 - 1914
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.