Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Jackson, Glenda.
Rise Up Women: The Suffragette Campaign in London
(Museum of London, 1992).
PAL VHS. Includes the anti--suffragette film Milling the Militants. VHS video. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15762
Keywords: Milling the Militants, social history, suffragettes, suffragette, women, women's, Emily Wilding Davison, London, England, Votes for Women, Glenda Jackson, Museum of London, suffragette campaign
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Muir, Kate.
Suffragette City:
(Pan Books, rpt., 1999).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, spine creased, otherwise good. 314pp. Order No. NSBK-C7085
Keywords: 0330389718, novels, fiction, women writers, woman writer, female, Kate Muir, suffragettes, suffrage, feminism, feminists, women's rights, women's writing, emancipation, New York, Manhattan, America, USA, American, United States of America, being single
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Trotter, Janet MacLeod.
The Suffragette:
(Headline Book Publishing, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. 504pp. Order No. NSBK-C10961
Keywords: suffragettes, Votes for Women
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Raeburn, Antonia.
The Suffragette View:
(David & Charles, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-C2222
Keywords: 0715370340, women's politics,politics, suffrage, suffragette, suffragism, Edwardian, Votes for Women, women's rights, the Women's Movement, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history
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Connelly, Katherine.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire
(Pluto, 2013).
Paperback. Fine. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C15423
Keywords: 9780745333229, Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragettes, Votes for Women, history, women's history, Pankhursts, biography, militancy
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Transport and General Workers Union, .
Inequality: The Evidence of the Transport and General Workers' Union to the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Incomes and Wealth
(Spokesman Books, 1976).
Hardback. In blue library binding with usual library stamps and markings, otherwise good. 183pp. Order No. NSBK-A15907
Keywords: 9780851241456, Transport and General Workers Union, trade unions, history, trade unionism, income, wealth, pay, wages, economics, poverty
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May, Elaine Tyler.
Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
(Basic Books, 1988).
Paperback. A little edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 284pp. Order No. NSBK-C15232
Keywords: B002FRGICK, American, USA, United States, Cold War, Cold War, families, family
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Mangan, J. A. and Park, Roberta J., eds.
From 'Fair Sex' to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras
(Frank Cass, 1987).
Hardback. With newspaper article / letter pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly faded, slightly creased dustwrapper. 312pp. Order No. NSBK-C15609
Keywords: 9780714632889, women, sports, sport, history, feminism, biology, leisure, entertainment
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Scott, A. F.
The Early Hanoverian Age, 1714-1760: Commentaries on an Era
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in spine-faded dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-A9097
Keywords: 0709904153, Hanover, Hanoverian, Britain, British, England, English, history, eighteenth, century, 18th, writings, paintings, engravings, drawings, cockfighting, coffee houses, highwaymen, South Sea Bubble, Black Hole of Calcutta, Richardson, Pope
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