On this day, 9 March 1914, women battled police in Glasgow during Emmeline Pankhurst’s speaking tour of Scotland. The famous suffragette had been temporarily released from prison to nullify her hunger strike, but now the police sought to rearrest her so she would serve the remainder of her sentence. What they didn’t expect was an organised bodyguard. Pankhurst’s protectors had barbed wire concealed in flower bouquets and clubs concealed in dresses. Some had undertaken martial arts training, and they carried at least one gun.
The Glasgow Herald reported that “Unparalleled scenes of disorder took place. The police stormed the platform and for several minutes a fierce struggle took place between them and Mrs Pankhurst’s supporters, several persons being injured. Flower pots and chairs were thrown at the constables, who were obliged to draw their batons. In the course of the mêlée the excitement was intensified by a woman firing several blank rounds from a revolver.”
*
We get no funding from any political parties, unions, organisations or corporations, and our work is funded entirely by our readers on listeners and patreon. So if you appreciate our content please consider supporting us and getting access to exclusive content and benefits at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Pictured: cartoon depicting a jiu-jitsu-trained suffragette https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1937842539734220/?type=3
The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Dr. Phibes Rises Again will be released on Blu-ray together on April 12 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Both films are directed by Robert Fuest (The Devil’s Rain, And Soon the Darkness).
The Abominable Dr. Phibes is a 1971 British horror film starring Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Peter Jeffrey, and Virginia North. James Whiton and William Goldstein penned the script.
Dr. Phibes Rises Again is its 1972 sequel starring Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Jeffrey, Valli Kemp, and Fiona Lewis. Fuest co-wrote the script by Robert Blees (Frogs).
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
If you don't like Left Wing political thought and philosophy, all things related to horror, the supernatural, the grotesque, guns or the strange, then get the fuck out. I just warned you.
