Saddleworth Historical Society Lecture Series So who else campaigned here for VOTES FOR WOMEN after ?

an Illustrated Lecture by Dr Jill Liddington Like so many other young feminists back then, Jill Liddington was gripped by BBC1’s drama series Shoulder to Shoulder (1974) based on the Pankhursts’ story. By coincidence, she moved north shortly after to Saddleworth, and a house in Springhead next door to a mill. This mill, she discovered, was where Annie Kenney had worked. Liddington’s destination as a historian was soon set. She began to ask: ‘Who else besides the Pankhursts?’ and before long was on the detective trail of Lancashire’s radical suffragists, working-class women in the cotton towns who campaigned using constitutional tactics rather than ’ militancy. With Jill Norris, Liddington wrote One Hand Tied Behind Us (Virago, 1978), which quickly became a suffrage classic. Liddington moved across the Pennines in 1980 - but found tracking suffrage evidence across the vast Yorkshire region far more challenging. Eventually Rebel Girls (Virago, 2006) was published. It told of the great 1907 Colne Valley by-election, including Milnsbridge suffragette Elizabeth Pinnance and Linthwaite suffragist and artist Florence Lockwood. Finally, Vanishing for the Vote (MUP, 2014) plunged into the 1911 suffragette census boycott; it explored the dilemmas of working-class suffragette living on Oldham Road. This talk focuses on local Votes for Women campaigns across the Pennines, and ends on Vote 100 plans to ‘Celebrate the Century’ in 2018. 2:30 p.m., Saturday 20th January Saddleworth Museum, Uppermill, OL3 6HS Members Free, Non-Members £3