Professor Maggie Andrews & Dr Janis Lomas 
101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes [EPUB ebook] 

Suffragettes learned jiu-jitsu, repelled policemen with their hatpins, burnt down football stadiums and planted bombs. They rented a house near to Holloway Prison and sang rebel anthems to the Suffragettes inside. They barricaded themselves into their homes to repulse tax collectors. They arranged mass runs on Parliament. They had themselves posted to the Prime Minister, getting as far as the door of No. 10. Indomitable older members applied for gun licences to scare the government into thinking they were planning a revolution. Rebels. Warriors. Princesses. Prisoners. Pioneers. Here are 101 of the most extraordinary facts about Suffragettes that you need to know.

Circa l’autore

JANIS LOMAS completed her Ph D on war widows at the University of Staffordshire, after which she worked as a lecturer in women’s history at the University of Birmingham. She was a founding member of the Women’s History Network, has served on the Executive Committee and founded the Women’s History Network – Midlands Region over twenty years ago.