Emily Davison martyr

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Emily Davison martyr!
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Emily Davison

• Emily Davidson was a teacher. She gave up her
  career to campaign full time for the
  suffragettes. She believed the suffragettes were
  right to be militant. She was put in prison nine
  times for stone throwing, window smashing and
  setting fire to post boxes.

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Emily Davison

• Then in 1913 she planned her most ambitious
  protest yet a grand gesture, at the
  world-famous Derby horse race at Epsom. In full
  view of the royal family, and of journalists from
  around the world she would what would she do?

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? Your task

• You are part of a police team investigating this
  incident. Using the sources try to work out
• a) What happened on 4 June 1913
• b) What Emily Davison meant to happen

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?? Writing frame

• Having seen the crime scene as well as the
  evidence and spoken to witnesses and associates
  of Miss Davison I have reached the following
  conclusions
• Some of the evidence and statements clearly show
  that
• However, the . would suggest that
• I must therefore conclude that