CarveHerName

#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.

They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.

#WomenInHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #Histodons

1/2

Mar 9 at 10:51amWeb
Show threadCarveHerNameMar 9

Flora, once the vote was won, went on to found the Women's Guild of Empire which was a conservative group opposed to unions, strikes and the welfare state.

Annie, once the vote was won, became a theosophist and an official in the Rosicrucian order.

Here's a interesting piece on the rightwards drift of some British suffragettes in the 1920s:

https://historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2021/07/18/drift-to-the-right-flora-drummond-and-the-origins-of-her-womens-guild-of-empire-in-the-1920s/

2/2

Drift to the Right: Flora Drummond and the origins of the Women’s Guild of Empire in the 1920s

In April, 1926, parts of the British press gave some coverage to an ‘anti-Strike march’ held one Saturday afternoon in central London, a procession which had started at the Embankment a…

History@Kingston