Catalogue description Metropolitan Police Notice of Georgina Brackenbury

This record is held by London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library

Details of 7BRA
Reference: 7BRA
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:

Metropolitan Police Force

Brackenbury, Georgina Agnes, 1865-1949, suffragist

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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