**Please bring this to the attention of those who may be interested.
Many thanks, Vicky**
Dr Jill Liddington, one of Britain's leading historians of the struggle
for equal rights for women, and the author of ‘Rebel Girls: Their Fight
for the Vote’, will give a talk entitled "The Votes for Women campaign
comes to the Yorkshire dales: rebel girls and caravan suffragists", when
she visits Northallerton Library on Tuesday 27 November 2007.
The book 'Rebel Girls' is a fascinating account of the lives of eight
Edwardian girls aged between 16 and 25 who took their passionate
suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing
harbours. Dora Thewlis, a 16-year-old weaver from Huddersfield, had her
life transformed when she was christened “Baby Suffragette” by the
newspapers after her arrest. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited until her 21st
birthday – then determined to burn two buildings a week until the
government granted women the vote.
Dr Liddington’s talk will be held in Northallerton Library and
Information Centre at 7pm on Tuesday November 27. Tickets are £3. For
further information please call Northallerton Library and Information
Centre on 01609-533832, or email [log in to unmask]
For more information about Dr Jill Liddington and her book ‘Rebel
Girls’, please see: http://www.jliddington.org.uk/talks.html
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