February 2014
#Emilymatters – No Vote, No Voice
Votes for Women! On 6th February 1918, a select group of women won the right to vote. However, it took ten more years before all women had the same voting rights as men. Yet today, so many don’t bother to use their hard won democratic right to vote. At the last election 61% of […]
#Emilymatters – National Voter Registration Day
Forcible feeding was torture, pure and simple. It left many suffragettes permanently damaged. Something worth remembering on National Voter Registration Day. #NVRD The 2014 production of TO FREEDOM’S CAUSE at the Houses of Parliament does not shy away from the brutality of forcible feeding. Women, such as Emily Davison, Sylvia Pankhurst and Mary Leigh put […]
