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Anna Munro

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Jean Hunot, niece of Ella Woodall, a contact of Munro’s, was interviewed in January 1977. Donald Munro-Ashman, Anna’s son, was interviewed in July 1975. Her daughter, Margaret Ridgeway was interviewed in July 1977, and the family’s nanny, Dorothy Adams, was interviewed in August 1977.
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She married Sidney Ashman in 1913, and though she legally took the surname Munro-Ashman she was still known as Anna Munro in her work, and she continued to be active working for women's rights throughout her life. She was also a socialist and
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where Anna was one of the first parish councillors in 1919 and they raised their children, Donald and Margaret, at Park Farm. By 1933 she was living at
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was formed and Munro was elected to be the Secretary of the WFL Scottish Council. She was briefly imprisoned in 1908 for her protesting. She accompanied
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recorded 4 oral history interviews about Munro as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled
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to create a short film about Anna Munro to celebrate 100 years since some women got the vote.
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Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.
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and founded a branch in Dunfermline in 1906,. and won support from socialist leaders and
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In 2022 her first memorial in Scotland was a street named Anna Munro Avenue. This is in
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https://www.onfife.com/blog/break-the-bias-anna-munro-a-campaigner-for-womens-suffrage/
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The Women's Library Special Collections Catalogue, London Metropolitan University,
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Making the vote count : the Arbroath Women Citizens' Association, 1931-1945
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boycotted. Also in 1911, Munro was involved in a demonstration regarding the
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where she was cared for by an uncle and aunt. She became involved with the
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where she hosted the Reading branch of WFL's celebration of founder
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and six others. Later Munro participated in the protests around the
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campaigner. The Munro-Ashmans' lived in Reading, but then moved to
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Virginia Russell, 'Munro, Anna Gillies Macdonald (1881–1962)’,
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led to a split in the WSPU and as a result the more democratic
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Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage
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The women's suffrage movement: a reference guide, 1866-1928
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Elizabeth Crawford, "Anna Gillies Macdonald Munro", in
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in London working with the poor. She then joined the
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Women's Freedom League
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women's suffrage
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Women's Freedom League
campaigning in Scotland
Thatcham
First World War
Aldermaston
Padworth
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Dunfermline
Wesleyan Methodist Sisters of the People
Women's Social and Political Union
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