Gladys Pott
An English anti-suffragist and civil servant, author of The Anti-Suffrage Handbook of Facts, Statistics and Quotations for the Use of Speakers
Katherine Harley
A suffragist who in 1913 organised the Great Pilgrimage, a march along six routes to converge on Hyde Park, London, where a rally in support of women’s suffrage was held.
Great Pilgrimage
A march in 1913 by suffragists from all over England Wales to London, in support of the campaign for votes for women.
Adele Meyer
Adele Meyer, Lady Meyer, (1862/3–1930) was an English socialite, social reformer, philanthopist and suffragist.
Herring girls
Women and girls who travelled across Scotland to gut and pack fish in the fishing ports on the east coast of Britain.
Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney (1879–1953) was an English working-class suffragette, the poster girl of the Women’s Social and Political Union.
Emma Lister-Kaye
Emma Lister-Kaye (1825–1905) was a colliery owner in Overton near Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1871 until 1905.
Liber Poenitentialis
The Lieber potentialis is a set of 7th-century ecclesiastical laws applied to women – and only women – perfoming acts such as divination, raising storms, or murder by the use of magic.
Convent of Poor Clares, Gravelines
The Convent of Poor Clares at Gravelines in the Spanish Netherlands (now in northern France), founded in 1607 by Mary Ward, was a community of English nuns of the Order of St Clare. Commonly called the Poor Clares, the order was founded in 1212 by Saint Clare of Assisi.
Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart
Heiress known for her stance against Catholicism and her leading role in the Highland Clearances