The Department for Education has recognised the changes at Emily Wilding Davison School in Ponteland. Rated 'inadequate' 18 months ago, the school has now been rated 'good' in all areas following a ...
Emily was born in 1872 in Greenwich, London. At that time women weren’t allowed to vote and choose who ran the country. Emily thought this was unfair.
Rapid improvements at a Northumberland school where pupils are “valued and nurtured” have been recognised by the Department of Education.
When suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst died in 1928 Herbert Jones, the King's jockey, laid a wreath at her funeral in honour of both her and Emily Wilding Davison. The woman who refused to give up ...
Tony had a great sense of history and wanted Parliament to commemorate those who had made a difference, including Emily Wilding Davison and her census-night sojourn in the broom cupboard under ...
Signed "an Englishman", this piece of hate mail was sent to votes-for-women campaigner Emily Wilding Davison as she lay dying in hospital in June 1913. Days earlier, she had been trampled by the ...
Emily Wilding Davison was a suffragist who abided by the movement's mantra "Deeds Not Words" and endured nine stints in jail and 49 hunger strikes in her fight for women to have the vote.
While the Pankhursts and Emily Wilding Davison became household names, there were many more suffragettes of note who we know relatively little about. Here, Rise Up Women! author Dr Diane Atkinson ...
The memorial to Emily Davison, who died four days after being trampled at the Epsom Derby in 1913, will be placed in Carlisle Park, Morpeth, Northumberland. Northumberland County Council has ...