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173: 365:) escaped and police found food and WSPU flag colours (white green and purple) and phone numbers of the property and the Oxford Fire Station. Craggs wore "a striking costume prominently displaying the suffragist colours" when she appeared in Bullingdon Petty Sessions court the next day and admitted her intent but would not give her name. Craggs was held in remand due to the seriousness of the crime (as 8 people were in the house) and sentenced at the 361:. WSPU insisted Craggs was acting alone, as this was the first threat to property. The incident was described in detail in court about two women hiring a canoe, and surprise encounter with a policeman, to whom Craggs said they were camping nearby and had come to 'look around the house'. The constable later identified Craggs, but the second woman ( 199:
and wished to study medicine, but her father refused that idea and Craggs went to teach science and physical exercise at her former school for a time. Although Craggs' mother supported suffragism and was a lead committee member in the national and
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was due to speak. Craggs broke through the crowd from her hideout shouting at the Chancellor about women's rights, and was thrown down a stone staircase. A bystanding man who said, "women pay taxes too" was beaten.
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Craggs was born in Westminster, London in 1888, daughter to Sir John Craggs, an accountant, who donated money for tropical medicine research, and she had seven siblings. Craggs was educated at
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as a means of earning income for her two children, Sarah (Sallie) (born in 1923) and John Alexander Somerville (born in 1925).
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who spoke about the obscene abuse whispered by male 'bystanders' and others who came in to tear up the suffrage materials.
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in 1908. She was chalking pavements and handing out campaigning literature on the women's suffrage. Craggs assisted
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Craggs used a pseudonym 'Helen Millar' (perhaps to protect her family and her teaching post) when she joined the
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five times in two days and suffered internal and external bruising for 11 days then released due to her health.
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in the successful campaign to wipe out his majority on this and other equality themes during the election in
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Within two years, Craggs had to leave an unsympathetic home to become a full time WSPU organiser at 25
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saying 'it was a shame he was going about the country while suffragettes where starving in prison'
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sometimes in Los Angeles. Craggs returned to London and became private secretary. On
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In 1969, Craggs, then Baroness Helen Pethick-Lawrence, died on 15 January in
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and identified as the protester who jumped out at the Home Secretary at
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for allegedly getting photographs of the property. Craggs was moved to
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has an image of Craggs on a horsedrawn carriage for distributing the
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The women's suffrage movement : a reference guide, 1866–1928
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gave ÂŖ1000 donation to the League for Opposing Women's Suffrage.
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Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes
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at 2a.m. to hide in the freezing roofspace overnight before
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Helen Millar Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
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court in Oxford, bailed at ÂŖ1000, half was provided by
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Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association
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Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence
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In November 1910, Craggs went to the Paragon Theatre,
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Churchill was then put forward for the 520: 336:Archive has an image of Craggs from the 246:per month, living in rented property in 171: 162: 1957; died 1961) 137: 1914; died 1936) 862: 839:"My Tickner family in Holmwood Surrey" 788:"Helen Millar Craggs Pethick-Lawrence" 385:, again went on hunger strike and was 586: 584: 582: 580: 578: 576: 574: 572: 570: 516: 514: 512: 510: 508: 506: 504: 502: 500: 498: 496: 836: 782: 780: 778: 776: 707:. Cardiff University. 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Index

The Right Honourable
Westminster
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada
Roedean School
Women's Social and Political Union
Baron Pethick-Lawrence

Roedean
Kensington
Conservative and Unionist Women's Franchise Association
Women's Social and Political Union
Peckham election
Flora Drummond
Winston Churchill
Manchester
Dundee
shillings
Bloomsbury
Mary Richardson
Museum of London
Votes for Women
Emmeline Pankhurst
polio
Grace Roe
Brixton
Hampstead
Ethel Smyth
Evelyn Sharp
Beatrice Harraden

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