Women – your country needs you! The Suffragette Movement (In Costume.)
Wendy Shepherd
- Organisation:
- Fordham History Society Essex
- Region:
- Essex
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: £50
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 26th November 2023
- Tagged:
- Suffragettes | Suffragists | 1911 Census
Suffragette or Suffragist? Much has been written about the Suffragette movement. This talk does look at some of the main characters including Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett, but also the lesser known women and men who strove to seek enfranchisement for all women and men. How did Queen Victoria view suffragettes? Was she aware that her daughters and god daughter supported the cause? In looking at the Pankhurst sisters we see how strong characters and differing beliefs broke the family apart. The Emily Davison tragedy continues to intrigue historians – did she mean to commit suicide or was her daring plan to attach a sash to the King’s horse a tragic accident? How did the Cat and Mouse Act come become into play? The talk looks at involvement of a local politician and how the women became repeat criminal offenders in the long fight to gain emancipation.
Views: 334 | Enquiries: 0About Wendy Shepherd
I am a retired Primary School Teacher and Assistant Headteacher. I have lived in Fordham Essex since 2012 and was pleasantly surprised that the small village had a History Society; that I immediately joined. I became chairman and organiser of Fordham History Society back in 2017. I have been a family history researcher since 1986 after my father died and my mother came to live with me. An old battered suitcases of family treasures started my interest in family history, although I have always liked history. In Fordham we are fortunate to have an archaeological dig site. My brother is a professional archaeologist and in the past I have worked with him on digs in Norfolk over a period of 10 years. Fordham History Society has a very good archive of documents and over 2000 photographs. From this archive, books have been written by our members. I have written a book about Fordham and WW1 to commemorate the Centenary of WW1 and with the help of Heritage Lottery money I was able to write the book, organise a week long exhibition, write a Scheme of Work for the village Primary School and having researched all our casualties on our war memorial; had ten more missing names added to the memorial. I am now in the process of writing a book about Fordham and WW2 and I am working on other village projects such as a photographic project of all the gravestones in the village churchyard. I have been giving historical talks to groups for eight years. These talks are varied, they include a range of talks relating to family history, photography and parish records, there are military themed talks covering Waterloo, WW1, WW2, Jutland, Raid on Zeebrugge, Women's Land Army and Conscientious Objection (the village school headteacher was an objector) and two that I do in costume; one as a pilgrim and another as a suffragette.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Wendy Shepherd
- Women’s Land Army – ‘The Land Army fights in the fields!’
- Essex in the Napoleonic Wars
- The Raid on Zeebrugge 23rd April 1918; A Twist in the Dragon's Tail.
- Gravestone Photographic Project
- Tracing your Ancestors using photographs
- Pilgrim Badges – souvenirs of the past (in costume.)
- The Battle of Jutland 1916 - success or failure?
- Smallpox, Triplets and Double Murder - Tales from Parish Records
- Conscientious Objection: A Headteacher's story in WW1
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