The Militant Suffragettes by Antonia Raeburn (1974) But there are also accounts of the creative militant activities of both women and men, including an incident where a member of the Men’s Political Union shimmied up a pillar at a Limehouse meeting to unveil a suffragette banner ‘over the heads of two bewildered Cabinet Ministers.’ 3. It’s dense in political history and the minutiae of parliament’s many dodging dances, used to avoid debating the subject of votes for women. Unshackled: The Story of How We Won the Vote by Christabel Pankhurst (1959)Ĭhristabel Pankhurst’s history of the WSPU starts with the meeting of her parents and ends with votes being won on equal terms to men - which in a cruel twist of fate coincided with the death of her mother. The allegations of torture in Perth prison are chilling, as is the passage in which Pankhurst reports the return of suffragettes from an Albert Hall meeting: “They came in ones and twos, bruised and disheveled …” 2. Part memoir, part historical narrative, she takes us from her humble childhood to her friendship with Independent Labour Party founding member Keir Hardie, to her split from the main WSPU to form the East London Federation of Suffragettes. Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is a comprehensive first-hand account of the suffragette movement. The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals by E Sylvia Pankhurst (1931)
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Planning, co-operation, altruism, craftsmanship, aesthetic sense, imagination, perhaps even a desire for transcendence beyond mortality. Much of what defines us was also in Neanderthals, and their DNA is still inside us. Above all, they were successful survivors for more than 300,000 years, during times of massive climatic upheaval. She reveals them to be curious, clever connoisseurs of their world, technologically inventive and ecologically adaptable. Rebecca Wragg Sykes uses her experience at the cutting-edge of Paleolithic research to share our new understanding of Neanderthals, shoving aside clich s of rag-clad brutes in an icy wasteland. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. 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