BRHG will be giving a short talk on the suffragette Theresa Garnett who attacked Winston Churchill on Temple Meads station 100 years ago last year (see http://www.brh.org.uk/autum2009/suffragette.html)

So if you missed our recreation of the event last year, come and find out why Thersea attacked Churchill and what happened after this famous incident.

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.

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 the Government to which Mr. Churchill belongs.

To mark the 100th Anniversary of this event BRHG will be staging a reconstruction at Bristol Temple Meads. Followed by:

Suffragettes

12:30-2:30pm. GWRSA Social Club, Temple Meads, BS1 6QQ. As you walk up to the entrance is on the left just past the Empire & Commonwealth Museum and the Nursery.

Talks by Dawn Dyer (the Suffragettes in Bristol) and Anny Cullum (the composition and outlook of the Suffragettes).