Tribute to the suffragette Emily Davison

[celeste]

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A tribute to suffragette Emily Davison, who was trampled by the king's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby, has been unveiled on the 100th anniversary of her death.
The tapestry features 100 signatures sewn on by Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) staff and students.
Lynn Setterington, who organised the work, said she hoped it would "raise awareness of this remarkable woman".
Davison, who served time in the city's Strangeways prison, died four days after she was injured at the Derby.
A forthright member of Manchester activist Emmeline Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union from 1906 onwards, she was a strong believer in the suffragette cause, which sought to secure voting rights for women.
 Continue reading the main story Emily Davison: an intended sacrifice?  

After being trampled by the king's horse on 4 June 1913, Emily Davison never regained consciousness, though it is not clear whether she intended to die for her cause

She had with her a return railway ticket, writing paper, envelopes and stamps - items which were often carried by suffragettes in the event of their arrest - and a ticket for a summer festival for the same day

As a result, the inquest into her death recorded a verdict of "misadventure" rather than suicide

Source: BBC

BBC Archive - Suffragettes: The 1913 Derby

She was frequently arrested for acts ranging from causing a public disturbance to burning post boxes and was sentenced to a month's hard labour in Strangeways after throwing rocks at chancellor David Lloyd George's carriage.
During her sentence, she went on hunger strike and blockaded herself into her cell, leading prison staff to turn a hose on her and almost fill her room with water.
Following the incident, she successfully sued the prison and was awarded 40 shillings.
Ms Setterington said she had come up with the idea of the tapestry after being challenged to explore what gender equality meant a century after Emily stepped out in front of the king's horse.
She said the "collaborative cloth comprising 100 sewn signatures - one for each year since her death" had led to "interesting conversations and discussions".
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[Wytchfynder]

Lets have a tribute to the male jockey who committed suicide because of that idiotic rich biach idiot. 
Oh...suffragettes...weren't you also busy with your shameful White Feather campaign too? Sending schoolboys to die in the trenches on your behalf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-GsBg4aW0Ag#!
 
White Feather Campaign..you evil nasty hags. 
 
RIP Brave Men.
 

[celeste]

The story that the 70-year-old Herbert 'Bertie' Jones killed himself after being "haunted by that woman's face" all his life has been refuted in a book by Michael Tanner.
Towards the end of his life Jones became deaf and suffered from two strokes.
Mr Tanner, a sports writer who specialises in horse racing, said: "His wife's death and his deafness caused him to take his life."
John Jones said stories of his father being "haunted" by Davison's face were "an utter load of rubbish".

[celeste]

The White Feather campaign was founded by Admiral Charles Fitzgerald
 
http://the-white-feather-movement-worldwarone.wikispaces.com/

[Wytchfynder]

Nice try.   Wacko Admiral widely derided by British public gives out feathers to 30 Folkestone women...AMAZINGLY (NOT)........from 30 women.... tens of thousands of women do it nationally. I wonder why?? 
 
White Feather Campaign & Suffragettes...evil nasty hags..
Women also tried pulling the same stunt at the start of WW2 but blokes weren't falling for it twice.
 
Fact is...suffragettes are murdering scum of schoolboy soldiers.   

[celeste]

Well I'm not going to argue the point as I don't believe in that sort of campaign

[Wytchfynder]

 Also worth pondering why these 'heroic' suffragettes only wanted women with £10,000 property to get the vote.  That's easily about £1 million today. prob more    Love busting the suffragette myth garbage.  Murdering scum.
 
RIP Lads.

[Churchmouse]

I've never understood people that commit suicide to promote a cause. You can do more alive than dead. Probably mental illness.

[Wytchfynder]

Silly Elitist rich [censored] had no intention of committing suicide 'for the cause'.  She simply f---d up trying to pin the suffracows colours on the kings horse.  All that throwing herself under a horse 'martyr garbage'  is blatant propaganda and yet another lie to add to the pile.

[Cupcake]

Of course they were rich, elitist and daft.  Only spoiled rich women had the luxury of time to think about half the population being little more than items of property. Working class women were too busy trying to survive the week.  Like them or not - and I don't, actually - the suffragettes did get people thinking and kick start some much needed social changes.  By all means blame them for the extra deaths from white feathers, but put it into context against the millions who died because of the chinless wonders in officer uniforms and Whitehall jobs who declared and ran the wars..... all blokes. 
 
I'm a little confused though.  You seem to think that we should return to the days when women were owned by their fathers or husbands, forced into arranged marriages, raped twice a week with no right of refusal, forced to produce sons and heirs, banned from education and not permitted an opinion on anything.  Yet you're so negative about the Taliban's efforts to preserve that for themselves? 

[Wytchfynder]

Nice try.  I suspect there's no confusion whatsoever,  youre implanting the false logical causation strategy, and simultaneously spouting more myths 
 
Gents should've been clued in as to what Davison and her hags were all about by reading the gushing nonsense written about her in newspapers which ended with the lament..."when oh when will a woman be valued more than a jockey?
If feminists were all about equality it would've said the same

Teeny weeny clue there these [censored] are after preferential treatment 

[Cupcake]

Nope, I am genuinely confused as to how anyone with an IQ in double figures and access to a UK education could possibly think that genital arrangements are the deciding factor in basic human rights.   Did you grow up in rural Pakistan or was it a considered, later-life decision to stick your head in a bucket and talk drivel?   
 
 

[Wytchfynder]

Nice try. I doubt Davison had the Taliban on her mind. The goalposts are here by the way. 

[Cupcake]

Yes, I can see the goalposts.  You helpfully keep booting the ball through your own as a reminder to me - no mean achievement considering you have both feet firmly in your mouth today!   
 
Davison was living under the English version of the Taliban.  Women had no choice, no rights, no voice.  I wasn't joking.  Conditions so deplored in undeveloped countries today were the norm here in Blighty not so long ago.  If Muslim women started chaining themselves to statues, disrupting daily life, demanding votes and education, you'd be cheering them on, wouldn't you? 

[Wytchfynder]

Davison was living under the English version of the Taliban. ??  Dear God, you actually believe that? 
Davison was part of a rich [censored] elitist fraud that sought to deny the vote to women  with less than £10,000 property......ie virtually all woman. Hardly any men had the vote either.
Do get your facts right before embarking on a  feminist drivel-fest