Jenkins, J. (2023). Partners In Protest: The Men Behind Leicester’s Suffragettes. Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 97. Vol 97, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. pp. 193-214. https://doi.org/10.5284/1119995. Cite this via datacite
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Partners In Protest: The Men Behind Leicester’s Suffragettes | ||
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society 97 | ||
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Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society | ||
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193 - 214 | ||
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It is widely recognised that the activities of women are largely invisible in history. When researching, for instance, the role of female anti-slavery groups, it is quite common to find no mention at all in learned histories of abolition of their very significant contribution. Interestingly, the cloak of invisibility can fall upon men too. Turn to a book about suffragists or suffragettes, and you will find few if any references to the role of the male sympathisers and their support groups. Certainly, some remember the role of John Stuart Mill’s early efforts as a radical MP to secure women’s suffrage, but who now recalls Jacob Bright (1821–99), Henry Fawcett (1833–84) or Frederick Pethick Lawrence (1871–1961)? It is an injustice that is only magnified when one examines the case locally. The first national women’s suffrage petition was assembled in 1866 in the house of Leicester’s radical MP Peter A. Taylor. Who now recalls the exertions of the Reverend John Page Hopps (1834–1911), Minister at the Great Meeting in Leicester, who funded and presided over many women’s suffrage meetings in Leicester with the thundering cry ‘Do right though the heavens fall!’? When one looks at the later struggle for women’s suffrage, characterised most unfairly – and deliberately in some quarters – as the suffragette war, the story is much the same and the injustice is arguably even greater since the actions of the male supporters entailed courage and sacrifice on a completely new scale. | ||
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2023 | ||
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28 Jun 2024 |
