Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook203 pages2 hours
Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
As the industrial revolution and the coming of the railways transformed the Wiltshire countryside Swindon women were on the front line of change, shaping the new industrial town and transforming the old market one.
Newcomers arrived from the great railway centers across the country to create a welcoming, tolerant and creative community with women’s contribution at its heart.
Following the incorporation of Old and New Swindon in 1900 innovative women stepped up to the plate; women like Swindon born suffragette Edith New who challenged political conventions and Emma Noble, Swindon’s first female councilor, who campaigned to improve living conditions in the town.
During two world wars Swindon women worked in the railway factory in jobs once considered beyond their strength and endurance. Women supported the war effort on the home front, volunteering in what little spare time they had.
Women such as teachers Mary Slade and Kate Handley who during the First World War headed the Prisoners of War Committee, which sent food parcels to soldiers from the Wiltshire Regiment held in German prisoner of war camps. Mary Slade was awarded the MBE in 1920 but her work didn’t end there. Mary Slade and her team continued to support the bereaved families beyond the armistice and through to the end of the Second World War.
The story of Swindon women includes artists and actresses, political activists and social reformers and the ordinary women who worked in the factories, raised their children and made a difference.
Newcomers arrived from the great railway centers across the country to create a welcoming, tolerant and creative community with women’s contribution at its heart.
Following the incorporation of Old and New Swindon in 1900 innovative women stepped up to the plate; women like Swindon born suffragette Edith New who challenged political conventions and Emma Noble, Swindon’s first female councilor, who campaigned to improve living conditions in the town.
During two world wars Swindon women worked in the railway factory in jobs once considered beyond their strength and endurance. Women supported the war effort on the home front, volunteering in what little spare time they had.
Women such as teachers Mary Slade and Kate Handley who during the First World War headed the Prisoners of War Committee, which sent food parcels to soldiers from the Wiltshire Regiment held in German prisoner of war camps. Mary Slade was awarded the MBE in 1920 but her work didn’t end there. Mary Slade and her team continued to support the bereaved families beyond the armistice and through to the end of the Second World War.
The story of Swindon women includes artists and actresses, political activists and social reformers and the ordinary women who worked in the factories, raised their children and made a difference.
Unavailable
Read more from Frances Bevan
Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality If Life Is a Circus I Must Be the Clown Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon
Related ebooks
A History of Women's Lives in Hove and Portslade Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Nottingham: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Bristol: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Chelmsford: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of Women's Lives in Coventry Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSnatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives (NHB Modern Plays): Eight Monologues Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Windsor: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Childhood & Death in Victorian England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of Women's Lives in Eastbourne Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in and Around Newcastle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSuffragettes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFemale Occupations: Women’s Employment 1850-1950 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen, credit, and debt in early modern Scotland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Plymouth: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Leeds: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen's Lives: Researching Women's Social History, 1800–1939 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cromwell and his Women Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDivorced, Beheaded, Sold: Ending an English Marriage, 1500–1847 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Leatherhead: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKate: Kate Middleton: Princess in Waiting Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Women's Century: An Illustrated History of the Women's Institute Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWomen, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA New Life in our History: the settlement of Australia and New Zealand: volume II Paradise Found ? (1830s to 1890s) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Girl Who Lived on Air: The Mystery of Sarah Jacob: The Welsh Fasting Girl Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Family’s Journey Through Ten Centuries: A social history of the second millennium – Book One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStruggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving in sin: Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNot So Virtuous Victorians Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Public Policy For You
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capital in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Social Security 101: From Medicare to Spousal Benefits, an Essential Primer on Government Retirement Aid Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTalking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing the Scream: The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On War: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No More Police: A Case for Abolition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We of Little Faith: Why I Stopped Pretending to Believe (and Maybe You Should Too) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Men without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Scottish Kings' Sex Lives 0% found this document usefulBe it Resolved, it’s time to abolish the British Monarchy 0% found this document useful019-Testing the Post Office: In 1898 W. Reginald Bray set out to test the limits of the British postal system. 0% found this document usefulThe Windrush Generation & Scandal: Unravelling the long history of the Windrush Generation. 100% found this document useful1549: A Murderous Midsummer: How did 4000 people in Devon and Cornwall come to be killed, defending their faith? 100% found this document usefulThe Lawn Mower Plot: Episode 380 0% found this document usefulThe Diary of Samuel Pepys 0% found this document useful‘No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’ - The Irish in London 0% found this document useful165-A Case of Mistaken Identity: A bizarre miscarriage of justice in Victorian England. 0% found this document useful401. Windrush: The Story of Black Britain 0% found this document useful1916 - Episode 4: 'The North Began': The North Began 0% found this document usefulBritain and the Slave Trade: Between the sixteenth & nineteenth centuries, Britain transported millions of enslaved Africans to the colonies. Dan is joined by Moya Lothian-McLean to explore the often hidden role slavery played in Britain's economy & throughout its soc... 100% found this document useful208-Giving Birth to Rabbits: In 1726, Mary Toft gave birth to 17 rabbits. 0% found this document usefulQueen Victoria 0% found this document useful
Related articles
FAMILY Fortunes BritainArticle
FAMILY Fortunes
Dec 8, 2023
6 min readBritain In Black And White NewsweekArticle
Britain In Black And White
May 11, 2018
12 min readAlcohol Insanity: Family Tree UKArticle
Alcohol Insanity:
Oct 8, 2021
7 min readVandemonians TracesArticle
Vandemonians
Dec 15, 2021
6 min readIn Search Of Overseas Employment Family Tree UKArticle
In Search Of Overseas Employment
Jul 14, 2023
9 min readChildren In Care Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Children In Care
Mar 9, 2021
6 min readThe Man Who Saved The Firm The Critic MagazineArticle
The Man Who Saved The Firm
Apr 29, 2021
AMID ALL THE JUSTIFIED TRIBUTES paid to the Duke of Edinburgh after his death on 9 April there seemed little or no recognition of one crucial point about him. It was accepted that, once he had found his feet as consort, he brought much influence and
4 min readRecollections Of The Crooked House Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Recollections Of The Crooked House
Nov 14, 2023
Email wdytyaeditorial@ourmedia.co.uk Write to WDYTYA? Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol BS1 4ST STAR LETTER WIN an AncestryDNA test kit from ancestry.co.uk WORTH £79 The writer of our star letter wins an AncestryDNA test worth £79 – so drop us a line an
7 min readYou’re Barred! History RevealedArticle
You’re Barred!
May 12, 2022
7 min readThe Prince Philip Years BBC History MagazineArticle
The Prince Philip Years
May 13, 2021
10 min readThe Irish Famine Orphan Girls TracesArticle
The Irish Famine Orphan Girls
Jun 22, 2018
5 min readLetters The Critic MagazineArticle
Letters
Jun 24, 2021
You opened Paul Rafaelle’s marvellous recollections of life as a resident correspondent in the Chinese capital by noting that Mr Rafaelle had been stationed in “Peking (now Beijing)”. Actually, it is still Peking, just as Moskva is Moscow, Warszawa i
3 min readInvisible People Family Tree UKArticle
Invisible People
Oct 9, 2020
7 min readRoyal Insider The Australian Women's WeeklyArticle
Royal Insider
Nov 30, 2023
4 min readMoving With The Times History RevealedArticle
Moving With The Times
Aug 4, 2022
4 min readBehind The Headlines Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Behind The Headlines
Feb 11, 2020
The right to knowledge about birth control was in the dock when reformers fell foul of the law. This year Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh were charged under the Obscene Publications Act for publishing practical information on how to the limit th
3 min readThe Best Of Times ... ...the Worst Of Times BBC History MagazineArticle
The Best Of Times ... ...the Worst Of Times
Oct 29, 2020
11 min readThe Census 1901 Who Do You Think You Are?Article
The Census 1901
Aug 24, 2021
4 min readThe Great War and the Home Front Reportage from the Ladysmith Chronicle British Columbia HistoryArticle
The Great War and the Home Front Reportage from the Ladysmith Chronicle
Sep 6, 2018
11 min readQueen Elizabeth: The Monarch At The Heart Of An Evolving Britain The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Queen Elizabeth: The Monarch At The Heart Of An Evolving Britain
Sep 8, 2022
When Queen Elizabeth II ascended the British throne in 1952, her empire from the West Indies to the Far East was in its final stages of decline, having lost the crown’s leading dominion, India, five years prior. Having reigned for 70 years, she was t
7 min read‘My Ancestors Were At The Heart Of The Industrial Revolution’ Who Do You Think You Are?Article
‘My Ancestors Were At The Heart Of The Industrial Revolution’
Apr 6, 2021
The Romans built a fort at the confluence of the rivers Irwell and Medlock in north-west England in AD 79, and named it Mancunium. By the Middle Ages Mamecester, as it had become known, was a manorial township, but in the late 18th and 19th centuries
5 min readThe Guardian View Guardian WeeklyArticle
The Guardian View
Sep 16, 2022
4 min readQ &A Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Q &A
Oct 18, 2022
Q My great great grandmother Cecilia cochrane was a scholar at the Sunderland Girls’ Industrial School, 6 Tatham Street. After Cecilia, her mother Catherine had nine children between 1859 and 1871, four of whom died in infancy. Her stepfather David w
11 min readThe Ties that Bind Us Guardian WeeklyArticle
The Ties that Bind Us
Mar 31, 2023
If you know how a trick is done, if you have peered through the smoke and looked past the mirrors, if you have figured out how the illusion is accomplished, surely you can no longer be fooled by it? Surely? The smoke-and-mirrors trick I thought I had
10 min readPortrait of a Woman Navigating Cultural Erasure British Columbia HistoryArticle
Portrait of a Woman Navigating Cultural Erasure
Dec 15, 2023
14 min readPRIDE & PREJUDICE Who Do You Think You Are?Article
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
May 31, 2022
5 min readLetters Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Letters
Apr 4, 2023
Email wdytyaeditorial@ourmedia.co.uk Write to WDYTYA? Magazine, Eagle House, Bristol BS1 4ST WIN an AncestryDNA test kit from ancestry.co.uk WORTH £79 The writer of our star letter wins an AncestryDNA test worth £79-so drop us a line and share your t
5 min readReviews Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Reviews
Feb 11, 2020
Doubleday, 368 pages, £20 Until relatively recently, being a woman was a handicap to entering most professions. Family opposition and a lack of available training contributed to the intentional barriers and prejudices existing in traditionally male
3 min readReviews Who Do You Think You Are?Article
Reviews
Jul 28, 2020
3 min readTips For Learning Social History The Value Of Researching The Backdrop To Our Ancestors’ Lives Family Tree UKArticle
Tips For Learning Social History The Value Of Researching The Backdrop To Our Ancestors’ Lives
Jun 12, 2020
In last month’s Family Tree Academy we looked at the importance of setting your ancestors’ lives in their local context. But we also need to consider the impact of the wider world; the social, economic and political landscapes which shaped the lives
3 min read
Reviews for Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews