Jill Liddington: 3 books
by Jill Liddington
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
If you read the credits at the end of each episode of the popular BBC1 drama series, Sally Wainwright’s, Gentleman Jack, you will see that the series is based upon Nature's Domain by Jill Liddington.
May 1832: Anne Lister was making her way home to Halifax and ancient Shibden Hall. Betrayed...
Vanishing for the vote
Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census.
Many did. Some wrote ‘Votes for Women’...
Rebel Girls
How votes for women changed Edwardian lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest...