Tag Index: Dawn Dyer

“Tags” are haphazard keywords attached to the content on this site. Using keywords to find content is not an infallible method when looking for something specific. If you need a more accurate list of content relating to an area of interest try doing a search. You can also try using the Subject Index which sorts the content into more rigid categories.

Theresa Garnett Vrs. Winston Churchill

transparent fiddle Theresa Garnett Vrs. Winston Churchill
Theresa Garnett Vrs. Winston Churchill Video from the re-enactment of Theresa Garnett attacking Winston Churchill at Bristol Temple Meads in 1909. Filmed by Alex Milne. Find out more about this event. The audio files from Anny Cullum and Dawn Dyer's talks are also now available.

Suffragette Day

transparent fiddle Suffragette Day
Saturday 31st October. 12-2:30pm Garrett Vrs. Churchill 12pm Bristol Temple Meads On 15 November 1909 in Temple Meads Station Winston Churchill, then Home Secretary, stepped from a railway carriage and was attacked by Theresa Garnett (a member of the Women's Social and Political Union) who was wielding a riding crop. Or, as Votes For Women put it: Moved by the spirit of pure chivalry, Miss Garnett took what she thought to be the best available means of avenging the insult done to womanhood by […]

Pin It on Pinterest