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Title: British society 19061918


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British society1906-1918
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Hunger strikes
  • On Saturday afternoon the wardress forced me onto
    the bed and two doctors came in. While I was held
    down a nasal tube was inserted. It is two yards
    long, with a funnel at the end there is a glass
    junction in the middle to see if the liquid is
    passing. The end is put up the right and left
    nostril on alternative days. The sensation is
    most painful - the drums of the ears seem to be
    bursting and there is a horrible pain in the
    throat and the breast. The tube is pushed down 20
    inches. I am on the bed pinned down by
    wardresses, one doctor holds the funnel end, and
    the other doctor forces the other end up the
    nostrils. The one holding the funnel end pours
    the liquid down - about a pint of milk... egg and
    milk is sometimes used.
  • Mary Leigh, Suffragette

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  • In 1909 Wallace Dunlop went to prison and
    defied the long sentences that were being given
    by adopting the hunger-strike. 'Release or Death'
    was her motto. From that day, July 5th, 1909, the
    hunger-strike was the greatest weapon we
    possessed against the Government before long all
    Suffragette prisoners were on hunger-strike, so
    the threat to pass long sentences on us had
    failed. Sentences grew shorter.
  • Annie Kenney, suffragette

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Arson campaign
  • Golf greens suffered on one occasion by the
    carving on the turf of 'Votes Before Sport' and
    'No Votes, No Golf'! The editor of Golfing
    complained on the plea that "golfers are not
    usually very keen politicians." "Perhaps they
    will be now," said the Suffragettes.The damage
    done to property was more spectacular than
    serious. Museums began to be closed, here and
    there, with preventive caution, to the vexation
    of American visitors. Mr. Lloyd George's house at
    Walton Heath paid the price of its owner's deed.
  • Christobel Pankhurst, Unshackled

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  • At the National Gallery, yesterday morning, the
    famous Rokeby Venus, the Velasquez picture which
    eight years ago was bought for the nation by
    public subscription for 45,000, was seriously
    damaged by a militant suffragist connected with
    the Women's Social and Political Union. The
    immediate occasion of the outrage was the
    rearrest of Mrs Pankhurst at Glasgow on Monday.
  • Yesterday was a public day at the National
    Gallery. The woman, producing a meat chopper from
    her muff or cloak, smashed the glass of the
    picture, and rained blows upon the back of the
    Venus. A police officer was at the door of the
    room, and a gallery attendant also heard the
    smashing of the glass. They rushed towards the
    woman, but before they could seize her she had
    made seven cuts in the canvas.
  • Manchester Guardian (11th March, 1914)

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  • The Home Secretary argued that the alternative
    to forcible feeding was to 'let the prisoners
    die'. He assured the House that women were
    prepared to die for the cause. 'It has been
    said,' he said, 'that not many women would die,
    but I think you would find that thirty, forty or
    fifty would come up, one after another.' Finally,
    he foreshadowed the introduction of a new
    legislative Act to deal with the matter. This
    proved to be the 'Cat and Mouse' Act, as it was
    quickly named by the critics of the Government
    The Government prepared for their fight against
    Mrs. Pankhurst by introducing this new measure,
    framed with the purpose of making her serve, in
    spite of the hunger-strike, every single day of
    the long sentence that was surely awaiting her.
  • Christabel Pankhurst, Unshackled
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