Catalogue description Metropolitan Police Notice of Georgina Brackenbury
This record is held by London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library
Reference: | 7BRA |
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Title: | Metropolitan Police Notice of Georgina Brackenbury |
Description: |
The archive consists of a Metropolitan Police notice binding over Georgina Brackenbury to appear at court to answer the charge of 'using insulting behaviour and resisting Police' at Old Palace Yard. |
Date: | 11 Feb 1908 |
Held by: | London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 0.5 A box (1 folder) |
Access conditions: |
This collection is available for consultation. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit. |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Found among the pamphlet collection and transferred to the archives by Miss M Surry, the Librarian, Sep 1974. Rediscovered amongst 'unsorted archival miscellany' during the move of the Library, 2002, and formally accessioned, July 2003. |
Administrative / biographical background: |
Georgina Agnes Brackenbury (1865-1949) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1888-1900. She was a member of both the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and the Women's Social and Political Union. She was arrested in Feb 1908, after taking part in a raid on the House of Commons and was sentenced to six weeks in Holloway Prison. After her release, she continued in militant suffrage activities and was imprisoned for a month in 1912 for smashing windows. She was the daughter of Hilda Brackenbury (1832-1918) and sister of Mary Brackenbury (1866-1946), who were both also involved in militant suffrage activity. |
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