I’m very grateful to the History of Stokey twitter feed for posting these two images. (I’ll even let them off calling it “Stokey”).
First of all an amazing poster for a meeting in 1906:
The space the meeting was held in is still used by the Library for exhibitions and events.
Millicent (or Mrs Henry) Fawcett and her husband have been mentioned in a previous post about Hackney Suffragettes and the 1866 petition.
Also an image of Suffragettes outside Stoke Newington station in 1899:
Any further pointers or information about the women’s suffrage movement in Hackney, Stoke Newington or Shoreditch would be gratefully received.
Some issues of ‘Votes for Women’ are online; search seems very unreliable, but I found one mention of Hackney in it: an ELFS meeting in Devonshire Hall, E7, in 1914:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2712&dat=19140731&id=GG89AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WysMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5006,16155861&hl=en
Found another item about Hackney in VFW: suffragists disrupting a Liberal meeting in Dalston Theatre:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2712&dat=19121213&id=xW49AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WysMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1772,6870419&hl=en
Thanks for both of these, John – I’ll have a rummage when I get a minute!
I realise that this post is from a good few years ago but in the ongoing research for the Women from Hackney’s History books I have gathered a lot of information on Hackney suffrage supporters and activists. There will be a talk at the inaugural Hackney History Festival in May.