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CRIMINAL: Imprisonment of Bayard Simmons, Elizabeth Davis, Lily Johnstone, Bessie...

Catalogue reference: HO 45/10349/147337

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This record is about the CRIMINAL: Imprisonment of Bayard Simmons, Elizabeth Davis, Lily Johnstone, Bessie... dating from 1906 in the series Home Office: Registered Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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HO 45/10349/147337

Date

1906

Description

CRIMINAL: Imprisonment of Bayard Simmons, Elizabeth Davis, Lily Johnstone, Bessie Armstrong, Sarah Morrisey and Auguste McDougall, following a suffragette protest on 14 December 1906 outside the House of Commons. Includes newspaper extracts describing the incident.

Also includes details of a later incident on 17 December 1906 when eleven suffragettes were arrested following a protest in the Central Lobby of the House of Commons.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

147337

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Closure status

Open Document, Open Description

Subjects
Topics
Public disorder
Votes for women
Record URL
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HO 45

Home Office: Registered Papers

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