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How suffrage campaigners took their message across Yorkshire – to Whitby

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Date: Fri, 4 October 2024

Time: 6pm doors, talk at 7pm.

Cost: £15 non-members, £12 Whitby Lit & Phil members.

Type: Event , Talk

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How suffrage campaigners took their message across Yorkshire – to Whitby. With Jill Liddington.

Author Storm Jameson, born 1891, grew up in Whitby and her Journey from the North  vividly conjures up how very remote the fishing port was then. But suffragists in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS, led by Mrs Fawcett) were determined. From August 1908, their horse-drawn caravan wended its way to the coast of rural North Riding. Its first stop was Whitby. Poignant postcards record the rigours of ‘vanning it’ – including speaking by the water’s edge to a crowd in Whitby.

Whitby Museum, Pannett Park, Whitby YO21 1RE  Doors open at 6pm with a chance to take a look around the museum and the ‘Our Lasses: Inspirational Women of Whitby’ exhibition  Tickets £15 or £12 to members of Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society . Ticket price includes a glass of wine or soft drink. Bookstall and book signing, proceeds to the Museum. Pre-booking essential.