When Votes for Women campaigns swept the country, Yorkshire was no exception. In Halifax, suffragettes campaigned vigorously. Mary Taylor was a Poor Law Guardian. Lavena Saltonstall worked in a Hebden Bridge clothing factory. In 1907, down in Westminster, they were arrested and sentenced to 14 days in prison. By chance, we know more about Huddersfield. Their minute book has miraculously survived! Young Dora Thewlis was Huddersfield’s ‘baby suffragette’. Her vivid Daily Mirror front-page arrest photo appears on the Rebel Girls cover (Virago 2006).
Cost
£15 plus booking fee.
How to book
To book your ticket, please visit: Votes for Women in Halifax – and across Yorkshire
Contact
Email: jennyg.HCT@yahoo.com
The Albany Club
Hope Hall
57 Clare Road
Halifax
HX1 2JP
United Kingdom