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Votes for Whitby Women!

Friday, 4 October 2024

Time
18:00 - 20:30
Venue
Whitby Museum, Whitby, YO21 1RE
Price
£15

An after hours look around the 'Our Lasses - Inspirational Women of Whitby' exhibition with talk and book signing from special guest Jill Liddington.

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How suffrage campaigners took their message across Yorkshire – to Whitby with Jill Liddington author of 'Rebel Girls:their fight for the vote' and 'As good as a marriage: The Anne Lister Diaries 1836-1838' basis for the Gentleman Jack TV Series. Doors open at 6pm with a chance to take a look around the museum and the ‘Our Lasses: Inspirational Women of Whitby’ exhibition talk starts 7pm.
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.
Tickets £15 or £12 to members of Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society . Ticket price includes a glass of wine. Bookstall and book signing, proceeds to the Museum. Pre-booking essential.

Venue

Whitby Museum
Pannett Park
Whitby
YO21 1RE

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