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Archival description
ADAIR-ROBERTS, Winifred
GB 106 7WAR · Fonds · c 1909-1913

The archive consists of correspondence and memorabilia relating to Adair-Roberts' involvement in the women's suffrage movement. It comprises a signed photograph of Emmeline Pankhurst in prison costume, [1909]; a 'broad arrow' pin badge as worn by suffragettes after imprisonment, [1912]; menu for the celebratory breakfast held by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) on the release of Muriel Roberts and other suffragettes from Holloway Prison, Mar 1909; a telegram from Sylvia Pankhurst to Miss Adair Roberts; a letter to Adair Roberts from Beatrice Saunders of the WSPU, Nov 1913.

Roberts , Winifred , Adair- , fl1910-1974 , suffragette
GB 106 7LGA · Fonds · 1879-1943

The archive consists of letters from Louisa to her mother Elizabeth Garrett Anderson from Holloway, letters to her family from the Women's Hospital Corps, Paris during First World War, a scrapbook relating to Endell Street Military Hospital and photographs, 1879-1943.

Anderson , Louisa Garrett , 1873-1943 , physician
GB 106 7RMB · Fonds · 1854-1917

The archive consists of two folders, one oversize album and 2 posters. It comprises maps and publicity materials (1908-1917); in memoriam items regarding Emily Davison (1913); press cuttings (1908, 1928); correspondence (1912-1913); notes for speech at trials (1912-1913) autobiographical manuscript account of prison hunger strike and force feeding (1913); autograph album (1909-1918); collection of papers, letters and newspapers (1890-1938).

Billinghurst , Rosa May , 1875-1953 , suffragette
GB 106 9/29 · Fonds · 1912-1970

The collection contains letters, a charge for orders, and notes from, to and concerning Billinghurst from a range of writers including Alice Ker, Dora Gregory, Harriet Ker, Jessie Kenney, Beatrice Sanders, Christabel Pankhurst, Major Coates, the Home Office, Elinor Penn Gaskell, Mabel Tuke, Jane Terrero, Winifred Mayo, Henry D Harben as well as members of her family. The second section of the volume consists of letters from Dr Alice Ker, from Holloway Prison, to her daughter Margaret Ker.

9/29 - Billinghurst Letters and Dr Alice Ker Letters; Billinghurst Letters 1912 and 1913; Letters of Dr Alice Ker to her daughters, 1912 - Begin AL/5459.

Billinghurst , Rosa May , 1875-1953 , suffragette Ker , Alice , 1853-1943 , physician and suffragette
BROWN, Myra Sadd (1872-1938)
GB 106 7MSB · Fonds · 1912-1938

The archive consists of eight letters of condolence written to Myra Stedman on the death of her mother, Myra Sadd Brown (Apr 1938). Members of the Women's Freedom League, the St Joan's Alliance and the British Commonwealth League expressed admiration of Mrs Sadd Brown's personality and her work in the women's movements. The archive also contains two photographs: one of the medal awarded to Myra Sadd Brown on her release from Holloway in 1912, with the inscriptions 'For Valour' and 'Hunger Strike' (medal held in Melbourne Museum, Australia); one of a drawing of Sadd Brown by fellow suffragette Jessie Mothersole, at a suffrage meeting, c. 1912 (original drawing held by the donor).

Brown , Myra Eleanor Sadd , 1872-1938 , feminist and internationalist
Civil Partnership Collection
GB 106 8CPC · Fonds · 2003-2008

This collection consists of items relating to Civil Partnership ceremonies in 2006: photographs, invitations, audio-visual recordings, celebration menus, registration forms, council registrar booklets. It also includes the participants' answers to a questionnaire about their civil partnership. The documented ceremonies and celebrations include those held in Kent (on International Women's Day, 2006); at Bromley Town Hall in Bow; in Hertfordshire and at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London. It also includes one folder of Civil Partnership ephemera.

As at 2008 the collection contains records donated by:

  • Sarah Ingle and Carol Goulden

  • Jan Pimblett and Meg Davis

  • Bridget Leach and Susan Flanagan

  • Susan Crane and Karen Newman.

Various
GB 106 7HFD · Fonds · 1910-1959

The archive consists of notes for speeches, correspondence, press cuttings, Women's Social and Political Union papers, family records including photographs and objects, papers related to the arrest and imprisonment of both Franklin and Duval.

Franklin , Hugh , 1889-1962 , suffragist Duval , Elsie , 1892-1919 , suffragist
GLIDDON, Katie (b 1883)
GB 0106 7KGG · Fonds · 1900-1965

Papers of Katie Gliddon, 1900-1965, comprising Gliddon's original prison diary written during her imprisonment in Holloway for the suffrage cause, autobiographical accounts of her arrest and imprisonment, correspondence (including letters from prison), drawings, press cuttings and Women's Social and Politicial Union (WSPU) ephemera.

Gliddon , Katie Edith , b 1883 , suffragist and watercolour artist x Gray , Katherine x Gray , Katie
GB 106 7VJH · Fonds · 1900-c.1962

The archive consists of diaries, correspondence, photographs and memorabilia relating to Holme's activities as a suffragette; her work with the Women's Volunteer Reserve and the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit during the First World War; her visits to and relief work in Serbia / Yugoslavia; and her personal life and friendships. Many items across the collection relate to her girlfriend Evelina Haverfield.

Holme , Vera Louise , 1881-1969 , actress and suffragette
LACON, Annie (1880-1968)
GB 106 7LAC · Fonds · 1905-1968

The archive consists of four copies of the newsletter of the Suffragette Fellowship (1946-1966); roll of honour of Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 (undated, c 1960), summons and press cuttings relating her imprisonment and suffrage including postcard from Mrs Pankhurst (1907); pamphlet (1957); photographs of Lacon (1950); press cutting on Lacon and ephemera related to celebrations of suffrage activities (1960s-1970s).

Lacon , Annie , 1880-1968 , suffragette
GB 0106 9/21 · Fonds · 1908-1916

The collection includes letters, mainly concerning suffrage, written between, from and to Lady Constance Lytton and a number of correspondents including Miss Strachey, Miss Flatman, Dr Alice Ker, Miss Daisy Solomon, Rose Lamartine Yates, Mrs Terrero, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Miss [Margaret] Ker, Elizabeth Robins, an open letter to Friends at a Prisoners' Dinner, and a letter from June Mills about Lady Constance Lytton.

Lytton , Lady , Constance Georgina Bulwer , 1869-1923 , suffragist
Maternity Alliance
GB 106 5MAL · c.1980-c.2005

The archive consists of the organisation's archives and Maternity Alliance publications. It includes Annual Reports and Accounts, the papers for the Annual General Meetings, the Minutes of the Executive and Management Committees and the papers of the working parties and subcommittees that reported to them, a complete set of the MA monthly newsletter, MA publications (including reports, fact-sheets, training notes, booklets and books), Directors' working papers (Christine Gowdridge), press cuttings, posters, a MA clock, an award.

The records reflect the organisation's work in:

  • Education (this includes educating employers and individuals of what was existing legal provision for maternity, but also education related to campaigning to reduce inequality in maternity provision, including lobbying government and trade unions for key changes in maternity provision);
  • Research into and support for specific groups (ethnic minorities; travellers; teenagers; asylum seekers; disabled etc);

  • Publications: Creating publications to support the above work;

  • Training: Creating published training resources and providing training sessions for those who worked with target communities (i.e. those who worked with parents on rights and benefits such as the DSS; Social workers; Advice groups and charities);

  • Policy and Project Work (such as a Teenage Pregnancy Project which included a resource and training pack);

  • Advisory Services (through the web site; through key publications; and through the Advice Line);

  • Conferences (particularly research based courses to highlight specific campaigns).

Maternity Alliance
POPPLEWELL, Nina (1890-1979)
GB 106 7POP · Fonds · c 1950-1968

The archive consists of typescript and manuscript lectures by Nina Popplewell, correspondence and papers relating to her work as secretary of the National Council of Women (mainly about women's employment and pensions), and a letter from the former suffragette Lilian Lenton describing her experience of being force-fed in Holloway.

Popplewell , Nina S , 1890-1979 , nee Marks , feminist
GB 106 9/11 · Fonds · 1885-1924

The collection contains 30 letters written between 1885 and 1924. Correspondents include William Thomas Stead, Frances Power Cobbe, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Herbert Stead, the Governor of Holloway Prison, Mrs Stead, Mr W Shaen, Miss Kensington the Secretary of Girton College, Mrs Frederic Whyte; the materials also include W T Stead's 'Holloway' New Year Cards, 1885. The letters discuss the Criminal Law Amendment controversy, speeches, his term in jail and emotional state, theology, Leslie Stephens, Edmund Garrett Fawcett, women's suffrage and education, the Royal Commission of 1871, trips for working women and the loan of Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Stead letter collection to a biographer.

Stead , William Thomas , 1849-1912 , journalist and author
GB 106 7ESW · Fonds · 1910-1914

The archive consists of correspondence between Eva Stephenson and her fiance Maurice Wilkins, covering the period 1910-1914. The letters describe Stephenson's experiences in Holloway prison for suffrage activism in 1910 (some letters are written on prison regulation notepaper), her life as an office worker and her family relationships. Subjects covered include: relationships with other suffragettes in prison; trials of the prison regime; Christmas in Holloway; her relationship with her mother who disapproved of her suffrage campaigning; reflections on her upbringing; employment in an office and enjoyment of her independence; her relationship with her future husband.

With typescript transcriptions of the letters by William Paul Wilkins, son of Eva and Maurice Wilkins (produced in 1998). The transcriptions include a name and place index.

Wilkins , Eva , fl 1913 , nee Stephenson , suffragette
GB 106 9/26 · Fonds · 1910-1964

The collection contains correspondence amongst the Taylor Family and their friends between 1910 and 1914 related to events and in particular the imprisonment of Mrs Mary Ellen 'Nelly' Taylor, Mark Wilkes and the Pethwick-Lawrences.

Correspondents include:

  • Mrs Mary Ellen 'Nelly' [sometimes Nellie] Taylor,

  • Dr Elizabeth Wilkes, sometimes addressed as Mrs Wilkes, known as Lily or Lilla.

  • Captain Thomas Smithies Taylor, Nelly's husband, addressed as 'Tom'.

  • Mark Wilkes,

Ramsay MacDonald and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence.

Letters addressed to Tom refer to her husband Thomas. Letters addressed to Tom and children refer to her husband and her children, Dorothea and Garth.

Various