Project ID: 786
| Description | The Suffragettes in South London and the Arsonist Campaign. In 1912, Emmeline Pankhurst’s eldest daughter, Christabel, planned to escalate the WSPU’s militant action by launching an arson campaign. According to Sylvia Pankhurst, “Women, most of them very young, toiled through the night across unfamiliar country carrying heavy cases of petrol and paraffin. Sometimes they failed, sometimes succeeded in setting fire to an untenanted building- all the better if it were the residence of a notability – or a church, or other place of historic interest.”[1] |
| Topics | Social history |
| Type | U3A-led research (SLP) |
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| Year started | 2018 |
| Source of reference | Citizens 800 website - see below |
| Notes | This is one of number of SLPs linked to the Citizens project at Royal Holloway College - see file card 547 for details See www.citizens.org/U3A for more information |