Violent Militancy Comes to Scotland

Pedersen, Sarah

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5_7

Sarah Pedersen⁶

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Abstract

With forcible feeding and the “Cat-and-Mouse” Act on one side and bombings, acid attacks and arson on the other, violence had now become an everyday element of newspaper reports. Newspaper correspondence and editorials presented an overwhelming picture of hysterical, screaming suffragette “martyrs” intent on the selfish gratification of their own demands at the sacrifice of all else, and willing to attack the property of ordinary men and women and the heritage of Scotland to achieve this. Coverage of the suffrage question had degenerated into a listing of the latest outrages and there was little discussion of pro-suffrage arguments or the statements of constitutional suffragists. When these groups did attempt to speak out, they were attacked for creating the conditions from which militancy had arisen.

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Motherwell Times, 26 April 1912.
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The Scotsman, 1 November 1912.
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The Scotsman 23 October 1913.
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Hamilton Advertiser, 27 June 1914.
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Motherwell Times, 13 October 1911.
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Southern Reporter, 16 February 1911.
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Stirling Observer, 11 March 1913.
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Parkins (1997). Taking Liberty’s, p. 42.
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Dundee Courier, 27 June 1913.
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Dundee Evening Telegraph, 29 November 1912.
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The Scotsman, 11 February 1914.
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Arbroath Herald, 8 March 1912.
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Falkirk Herald, 13 March 1912.
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Edinburgh Evening News, 15 June 1914.
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Glasgow Herald, 13 March 1914.
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The Scotsman, 14 March 1914.
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Arbroath Herald, 23 May 1913.
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Dundee Courier, 18 December 1913.
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Arbroath Herald, 8 March 1912; 22 May 1914.
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Glasgow Herald, 11 March 1914.
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Pedersen, S. (2017). Violent Militancy Comes to Scotland. In: The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5_7

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