On 13 June 1912 Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and a group of suffragettes smashed windows in Dublin Castle to highlight the cause of womenâs right to vote. It was an offence for which she would spent a month in prison.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #HannaSheehySkeffington #Dublin #Suffragettes #WomensRights #OnThisDay
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It was a very gripping read and I totally got drawn into the flow of the lives of the Irish women who did fight to save as many mothers and newborns as they could. - The portrait of the obstetrician and physician Dr. Kathleen Lynn is the true story of a woman with exactly that name that lived beyond the norm, was a key figure in the 1916 Easter Rising and previously was a member of the Irish suffragettes.
Events in LA remind us that in times past, when the state uses excessive force against its own citizens, it ultimately was on the wrong side of history. In the UK, we too have a shady past of parallel events and movements: #Levellers #Chartists #Peterloo #Suffragettes to name a few. #LA
Looks like the difference between a campaign for rights being "disgraceful" and "worthy of commemoration with a statue" is about 100 years then
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkx78zlm4po
"How far will Harriet go?"
Excerpt: Strait Lace (Loxley Hall Books) by Rosemary Hayward - #TheCoffeePotBookClub, #BlogTour, #WomenInHistory, #Suffragettes, #HistoricalFiction,
"Two Suffragettes" https://markstoneman.com/2025/03/03/fay-hubbard-year-old-suffragette.html (follow link for details)
Zur morgigen #BTW25 treten 4.506 Wahlbewerber*innen an. Darunter sind nur 1.422 Frauen. Wenn Ihr noch unentschieden seid, dann mag das vielleicht eine Hilfe sein. Wirklichen Wandel gibt es nur, wenn Frauen* endlich in den gleichen Machtpositionen sind wie MĂ€nner. Wir sehen ja u.a. an #Putin und #Trump (die Liste lĂ€sst sich endlos fortsetzen) was #toxischeMĂ€nnlichkeit anrichtet. Daher #VotesForWomen âïž đȘ
#Suffragettes
#PublicArt. This is the best term for it, not statues or street art, because the public is involved, so you know you gotta think about the public response - intended and incidental - as well as the artist's intention.
Older public art is particularly interesting because of change. Mostly - but not always - the artist's intentions don't change over time, but the public's reaction certainly does.
#TrafalgarSquare is a good example. It was built 180 years ago or so. Later than you might think, but earlier than I expected. It commemorates a naval battle of the #NapoleonicWars, but it wasn't originally going to - they were going to call it #WilliamIV Square or something. The theme changed from #royalism to #militarism, but that change isn't visible in the statues.
After 1815 and before about 1880, the #BritishEmpire was mainly #India, the #WestIndies, #Ireland, and an archipelago of #navy bases dotted around the world. The #UnitedKingdom was figuring out how to deal with its #democratic deficit, so there were a series of reactionary governments that paradoxically passed #ReformBills to extend the franchise. There were #labour riots, and an #industrial boom, and huge cities - particularly #London, but also #Manchester, #Birmingham, #Liverpool, #Belfast - growing like galloping weeds over the countryside. This was #Dickens 's England. This was the time of #TheMakingOfTheEnglishWorkingClass.
So what did they mean at the time by building Trafalgar Square? It has #propaganda value. Lord #Nelson was a controversial figure in his own time, but I can imagine the Duke of #Wellington trying to link his own political fortunes to a safely-dead hero in the 1830s. The square was built with #parliamentary approval and funding, and with quite a lot of public subscription too - though what a 'public' means in that context isn't obvious. Probably wealthy #industrialists, the #techbros of the age, but I'm guessing.
Since it was built, more - but much smaller - naval commemorations have been added. So its original goals weren't forgotten, but extended - artist intentionality changing over time.
The #Suffragettes used Trafalgar Square extensively for protests. I think we can reasonably link their use of the square to the original political use of the square. It was built in an era of Reform Bills that didn't reform the vote for #women. They could hardly do better than to make their protest clear in a space which modeled the thing they were protesting about - a powerful, militarist, partly-democratic England that didn't include women.
#Labour also used Trafalgar Square for protests. One of my favourite photos is of #KeirHardy - the Keir who the current prime minister is named for - speaking from the base of #NelsonsColumn in 1908. You have to know about it, but Trafalgar Square is a labour monument.
And to this day, Trafalgar Square is a traditional rally point for demonstrations and protests. No important London protest or demo happens without going through Trafalgar Square.
This use of their commemorative art would be totally alien to people who funded its construction. They're more likely to have been the backers of the #PeterlooMassacre.
The square was famously sandbagged during the Second World War, to preserve it from being damaged, and I gather many Londoners at the time considered that to be symbolic of resistance and survival. So the art became invisible to the public, but people were still aware of it.
These days, Trafalgar Square is a landmark of London, in many ways as iconic and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. That might please its builders, but probably wasn't what they expected. It's also a rendezvous point, with its tube station and its buses. A gathering place. It hosts incidental modern art on the famous empty plinth.
Public art is inspirational. This is just Trafalgar Square - all the things I've seen give me the shivers when I think about how much embattled history is locked up in stone and bronze, under which people eat sandwiches, kiss lovers, wave placards, make speeches, and which get periodic paint douses, get stood on, relabeled and reinterpreted, dressed up and eventually pulled down.
Another time I'll write about other public art I've seen. #StPetersburg and #Moscow are rather heavy on such art, but there is so much important stuff to say about it.
I just watched âLa Bolducâ on Netflix.
I recommend this 2018 Quebec film.
Itâs a biographical drama about the life and work of Mary Travers, better known by her stage name âLa Bolducâ or by the name of her husband as âMme. Ăduard Bolducâ.
Itâs the story of the life of a gifted woman in a time when she was confronted with social change and the pressures of poverty, family life, and the Church.
In the principal role, Debbie Lynch-White gives a genuinely nuanced performance.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6768558/
#WomensHistory #Netflix #WomensRights #Suffragettes #Film #QuebecFilm #FolkMusic #WomensFilm #1930s #LaBolduc
Je viens de regarder <<La Bolduc>> sur Netflix.
Je voudrais vous recommander ce film quĂ©bĂ©cois. Câest un drame biographique sur la vie et l'Ćuvre de Mary Travers, plus connue sous son nom d'artiste La Bolduc ou sous le nom de son marie <<Mme. Ădouard Bolduc>>. Elle Ă©tait bien connue aussi comme La reine canadienne des chanteuses pendant les annĂ©es 1930.
Il sâagit de la vie dâune femme douĂ©e dans un Ă©poque oĂč elle Ă©tait mise en face aux changements sociaux et les pressions de la pauvretĂ©, de la vie familiale, et de lâĂglise.
Dans le rÎle principal, Debbie Lynch-White nous offre une performance vraiment nuancées.
https://www.imdb.com/fr-ca/title/tt6768558/
#HistoireDesFemmes #Netflix #Cinéma #CinémaQuébéquois #DroitsDesFemmes #Suffragettes #Années1930 #LaBolduc #CinémaDesFemmes #Bibliographie #MusiqueFolklorique
đ„ Ăcoterrorisme ? Suffragettes et militants Ă©cologistes : un parallĂšle surprenant. đ„
đïž Suivez Elia et plongez dans une rĂ©flexion sur les luttes sociales et sa perception de la violence pour le changement.
đŹ Donnez votre avis dans les commentaires et abonnez-vous pour dĂ©couvrir d'autres vidĂ©os qui relient passĂ©, prĂ©sent et futur !
#Ăcoterrorisme #Suffragettes #MilitantsĂcologistes #Histoire #JusticeSociale #ChangementsSociaux #PassĂ©PrĂ©sentFutur #ĂgalitĂ© #droitsdesfemmes #citoyennetĂ©
Today's mood: "Don't call me Baby Suffragette. I am not a baby." - Dora Thewlis
Ya' ever read about the suffragettes? They were wild! Violence, disruption, all kinda things! An' that's why they won.
What's yer favorite story from the suffragette movement?
(Art sampled from "Green Lantern" Vol. 3 #45 by Gerard Jones, Gene Ha, Romeo Tanghal, Anthony Tollin, Albert DeGuzman, Kevin Dooley, and Eddie Berganza. Edits: New Background, Altered Dialogue.)
Mabel Capper was a Mancunian suffragette who travelled to Bath in November 1911 because Lloyd George came to visit to speak at a discussion on women's suffrage. And women couldn't attend due to âlimited spaceâ. Funny that they managed to have 6,000 men attend.
A group of #suffragettes, including Mabel, disrupted the meeting on this day in 1911 by climbing onto the roof and making a huge racket.
This will feature in my upcoming book On This Day in #Somerset!
We can learn a lot from the Suffragettes! They learned the importance a' creatin' disruption an' threat! It weren't a perfect movement by any means (BIPOC women were marginalized, for one thing), but there's a lot ta' learn there!
(Art sampled from "Green Lantern" Vol. 3 #45 by Gerard Jones, Gene Ha, Romeo Tanghal, Anthony Tollin, Albert DeGuzman, Kevin Dooley, and Eddie Berganza. Edits: New Background, Altered Dialogue.)
The concluding part of the two part episode of Origin Story on the British Suffragetteâs and other campaignerâs for votes for women is superb. I think it drops on the general podcast feed on Monday. Part 1 available now.
They have taught me a lot about the campaigns that I didnât know. Including about the much larger Suffragist movement.
Today in 1910, Mildred Mansel nĂ©e Guest planted a holly tree at Eagle House, Batheaston. The previous year sheâd been arrested at the Bill of Rights protest march. The treeâs plaque survived and is cared for by the Roman Baths Museum.
For more on Eagle House and the Suffragettes, see Unsung Women in Somerset.
