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sentences instead. Supporters from the suffragette movement stood outside and cheered when the women were released after two weeks in jail, and marched to a celebratory breakfast. Hawkins read out the MP's response which was that the behaviour of the women was 'not doing any good for the cause and that the WSPU had now lost the public interest'. She returned to
Leicester and set up a branch of the WSPU inviting Emmeline Pankhurst to speak, and she signed up the first 30 members.
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taken in the factories and land during the war, and also said that suffragette action had led to this and the right to vote. Due to the property-owning conditions of the Act however, she was unable to vote herself for a further 10 years, at the age of 63. Alfred died in 1928 and
Hawkins had to live with her children and families, due to her poverty.
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Leicester, at which suffragettes had been specifically barred. In this case the lead role was played by her husband, Alfred who volunteered to raise the issue. During Churchill's speech, Alfred asked Churchill to explain how he could ' stand on a democratic platform' while women did
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Cradley Heath with the women chainmakers, before moving to Leicester, where she lived with Alice Hawkins and painted women shoemakers. She then travelled to Wigan to study women "pit brow" workers and, from there, back down to Staffordshire to the potteries
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Her great-grandson, Peter
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2008 Women's
Suffrage Alice Hawkins ( 1863-1946) was one of Leicester's leading suffragettes. She went to prison five times for various acts committed as part of the WSPU's militant campaign for the vote. Mrs Hawkins was a mother of five children and worked as a machinist at Equity Shoes. She had
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Three of
Hakwins's sons joined the army in World War I, in different regiments, and all met by chance 10 miles behind enemy lines and a local photographer captured them. When some women were given the vote in the Representation of the People Act (1918), Hawkins was proud of the role that women had
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window in full view of a policeman. When her son Tom died of a brain tumour in 1912, she wrote to
Emmeline Pankhurst in deep sympathy. She was jailed twice more in 1913, first for throwing ink into a Leicester post box, and then a last time for digging a slogan into a golf course at night. She
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after a brutal charge by 20 police on horses and a pitched battle. Her lawyer wrote to the local MP that 'in no other civilised country would women be dealt with in this manner'. Bail was set at £2 for disorderly conduct and resisting the police, but all the women arrested chose to serve jail
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Alfred also defended Alice when heckled by men in a crowd where she was speaking saying 'get back to your family!" She was able to say 'here is my family they are here to support me" as Alfred was demonstrably for the cause, which some but not by any means all suffragists could claim. Alfred
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Her protests ceased when war was declared in 1914 and the WSPU agreed to cease protests in exchange for having all prisoners released. Home Office report that 1,300 women were arrested over the years in this cause, along with 100 men like Alice
Hawkins' husband Alfred.
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with the proviso that these were working-class women representing their class. The boot and shoe industry was particularly unfair in its treatment of women, who did exactly the same work as men but for unequal pay, lived in the poor quality housing and worked in
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after he was thrown down some stairs after protesting against
Winston Churchill during a Liberal party meeting Bradford. The judge ruled that he had been ejected without warning after merely asking a question and that was an assault.
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from the WSPU. Hawkins was one of the prisoners who built a relationship with the female prison warders also working-class women who comforted the prisoners as well as having the job of holding them down to be force-fed.
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not have a vote and he was ejected from the event. Alice was protesting outside when she too was arrested. Alfred paid the fine, but Alice again opted for prison. This time it was in Leicester jail and she went onto
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She has a plaque at her workplace and another on the Leicester Walk of Fame. In 2018, a five-year funding campaign ended when a seven foot high statue was unveiled in market square by four women including
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Hawkins was first jailed in February 1907, after attending her first suffragette rally in Hyde Park, when 300 women then marched to Parliament, after hearing that votes for women was not on the
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suffered for his support, when he was eventually awarded £100 compensation after having his leg broken during a suffragette protest on 26 November 1910. His case had been taken up by the
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militant campaign. Her husband Alfred Hawkins was also an active suffragist and received £100 when his kneecap was fractured as he was ejected from a meeting in Bradford. In 2018 a
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been active in the ILP and in 1910 became president of the breakaway Independent National Union of Boot and Women Shoe Workers. Alice Hawkins on her way to prison in July 1913, ...
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