Fonds GB 106 7LAC - LACON, Annie (1880-1968)

0.5 A box (1 folder)

GB 106 7LAC 1905-1968 fonds 0.5 A box (1 folder) Lacon , Annie , 1880-1968 , suffragette

Annie Lacon (1880-1968) was born in Birmingham in 1880. She attended a meeting in Birmingham in 1906 at which Emmeline Pankhurst was a speaker and immediately became the first member of the Birmingham branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). There she also met the man who was to become her husband. In 1907 she was selected as a delegate from Birmingham sent to protest at the House of Commons. During this event on the 20 Mar 1907, she was arrested with around seventy other women and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The following day she was tried and fined five shilling which she refused to pay. She was then held for fourteen days in solitary confinement. She subsequently continued as a member of the WSPU, later giving birth to a daughter whom she named Emmeline. This occurred two months after the death of her husband and she subsequently went to live with her sister before moving to Northampton in 1948 where her daughter was employed. She remained a member of the Labour party there until the end of her life, as well as belonging to the Northampton Business and Professional Women's Club. Lacon was also a member of the Women's Freedom League and birth-control campaigner. She died in 1968.

Donated in Jan 1987 by the executors of Annie Lacon's daughter (Emmeline Davies) in accordance with Emmeline's wishes.

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).

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

English

Fawcett Library Catalogue c.1970

Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

28/02/2008 Women Lacon , Annie , 1880-1968 , suffragette Organizations Associations Womens organizations Disadvantaged groups Prisoners Rights of special groups Womens rights Womens status Internal politics Electoral systems Womens suffrage Pankhurst , Emmeline , 1858-1928 , nee Goulden , suffragist Bondfield , Margaret Grace , 1873-1953 , trade unionist, campaigner for women and politician Thompson , Mary , fl 1957 , suffragette Thompson , Margaret , fl 1957 , suffragette Suffragette Fellowship Sex Sex distribution

Donated in Jan 1987 by the executors of Annie Lacon's daughter (Emmeline Davies) in accordance with Emmeline's wishes.

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).

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

• English

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English

Fawcett Library Catalogue c.1970

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English