‘The brutes’: Mrs Metge and the Lisburn Cathedral bomb, 1914

The first decade of the twentieth century saw the establishment of women’s suffrage societies in nearly every major town and city in the British Isles. These organisations shared the same objective but utilised vastly different means to achieve it. The movement was split between two broad camps: militant and non-militant. The London-based National Union of ... Read more

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