The film Suffragette, which is due for release, portrays the struggle by British women to win the vote. They were exposed to violence and intimidation as their campaign became more militant. So they ...
A feather-hat-wearing, 4ft11in woman isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think of martial arts. But Edith Garrud, aged 42 in 1914, taught her suffragette sisters how to defend ...
The Battle of Glasgow in 1914 offers us a ‘hidden insight’ into Scotland's relationship with the suffragette movement and self-defence, an antiquarian and novelist has revealed. Did you know with a ...