Category: Women’s Suffrage

In the last few months I have used this blog to reveal some research about lesser-known (but interesting) Kent women who became magistrates (also known … Read more

Watts was active in the Church League for Women’s Suffrage and as a campaigner for equal pay for women teachers. For some time, I have … Read more

Eliza Packman’s public career included suffrage activism as well as service as a poor law guardian and – later in life – as a justice … Read more

My interest in the lady discussed here arose because she was not only among the first women to be appointed a Justice of the Peace … Read more