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took over as Treasurer from Constance Tite and improved the WFL's financial situation. Before her appointment, the League suffered serious financial problems and on occasions had to appeal to its members for loans. Knight introduced new fundraising schemes for the League. However, finances were also
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The Pankhursts refused the request, however the meeting was still held on 12 October 1907 at Caxton Hall. Officers and committee members were duly elected for a new organisation. One of the group's first actions was to choose a name for the new organisation via a referendum of the branches. The name
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became the primary means of communication with the public, informing readers of campaigns, protests, and events. The newspaper helped to spread ideas concerning the First World War, allowing for the Women's Freedom League to advocate against the war. Members of the League refused to become involved
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OBJECTS: To use the power of the Parliamentary vote, now won for Women upon equal terms with men, to elect women to Parliament, and upon other public bodies; to establish equality of rights and opportunities between the sexes, and to promote the social and industrial well-being of the
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OBJECTS: To secure for Women the Parliamentary Vote as it is, or may be, granted to men; to use the power thus obtained to establish equality of rights and opportunities between the sexes, and to promote the social and industrial well-being of the
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spoke at their departure from Charlotte Square on 12th October. The walkers wore brown uniforms and marched beneath a banner showing the route and objective of their march, which was to solicit signatures for a petition
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in 1914 and the call for volunteers for the war effort which Boyle wished to see taken up by women as well as men. When the request was officially refused, Boyle, together with
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In 1908 and 1909, members of the League chained themselves to various objects in Parliament in protest. On 28 October 1908, three members of the Women's Freedom League,
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in campaigning efforts led by the British Army. Members were upset when the women's suffrage campaign came to a halt while the war was in progress.
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chained themselves to their seats at a political event and spoke out on behalf of WFL and WSPU policies, at by-election hustings across Scotland.
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Women's Freedom League at Women's Coronation Procession, London, 17 June 1911. Charlotte Despard stands in front of a group holding banners.
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and herself a campaigner for women's rights, established the first voluntary women's police force-the Women Police Volunteers (WPV).
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Edith How-Martyn, Mrs Sproson, Charlotte Despard, Miss (Constance) Tite standing outside the WFL offices in the Victoria Institute
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that the League consisted of sixty-five branches and had nearly five thousand members, and many more sympathisers.
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1909 – Volume 76 – Page 1922 "A New woman suffrage weekly paper has just appeared in London, entitled The Vote."
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became head of the WFL's political and militant department. Boyle started a campaign for women to become
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The Women's Freedom League grew rapidly throughout Great Britain. In October 1909, How-Martin wrote in
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improved by large donations by an "anonymous" person. It is suspected that this person was Knight.
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from October 1907 until October 1909, when the League established its own newspaper,
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The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004
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The League also held protests that advocated pacifism during the First World War.
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was played to accompany them. De Fonblanque took the petition to Downing Street.
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speaking in front of a banner of the Women's Freedom League Scottish Campaign
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Members of the League who were writers led the production of the newspaper.
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The "Brown Women" were named after the brown coats that the walkers wore.
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The League's main objectives were stated in a banner on the front page of
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Promotional material from the Women's Freedom League caravan tour (1908)
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The executive committee included women from around the country, such as
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the Women's Suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland: a regional survey
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The group declined in membership but continued under the leadership of
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in her bid to become one of the first two women barristers in Britain.
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was the League's Treasurer until her resignation in 1910. In 1912, Dr
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became law, the banner changed from the 13th July 1928 issue to read:
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Initially, the league published their communications and notices in
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Feminist freikorps: the British voluntary women police, 1914–1940
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for the first time. The WFL celebrated the achievement of partial
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to organise annual birthday parties for Despard and maintain the
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Women's Freedom League caravan with Charlotte Despard (left) and
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women's rights anti-war candidates following the passing of the
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decided to rule without democratic support from their members.
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suffrage newspaper as the winning choice on 28 November 1907.
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After the announcement that the 1907 Annual Conference of the
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then refocussed the WFL's activities on equality, including
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Art in the women's suffrage movement in the United States
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and equality of morality. The WFL later supported member
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The archives of the Women's Freedom League are held in
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in November 1918, which allowed women to be elected to
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Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928
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Centenary of Women's Suffrage Commemorative Fountain
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organised a 400-mile walk from Edinburgh to London.
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Dare to be Free, Women's Freedom League flag c. 1908
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Index


Charlotte Despard
Edith How-Martyn
Alice Abadam
Teresa Billington-Greig
Marion Coates-Hansen
Irene Miller
Votes for women


United Kingdom
women's suffrage
pacifism
sexual equality
Women's Social and Political Union
Pankhursts
Women's Social and Political Union
Emmeline Pankhurst
Eustice Miles
vegetarian
Charing Cross
Strand
Charlotte Despard
Edith How-Martyn
Alice Abadam
Teresa Billington-Greig
Marion Coates-Hansen
Irene Miller
The Vote
Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928

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