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Winter Syllabus for the Women's Freedom League
Winter Syllabus for the Women's Freedom League
Winter Syllabus for the Women's Freedom League
Winter Syllabus for the Women's Freedom League

Winter Syllabus for the Women's Freedom League

Associated (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1874 - 1956)
Date1907-1908
Object NameSyllabus
Mediumpaper and ink
ClassificationsSocieties
Dimensions22.7 × 14.6cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1988.
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDMS082703
About MeThis is part of a collection of documents relating to Caroline Phillips (1874-1956), an Aberdonian journalist who was involved in the women's suffrage movement. The collection contains important correspondence between Phillips and key leaders in the suffrage movement, including Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst.

Women's Freedom League
(late W.S.P.U.)
EDINBURGH BRANCH

WINTER SYLLABUS, 1907-1908

1907
November 12 BUSINESS MEETING
19 DISCUSSION "Home and Politics"
Leader - Mrs Glegg
26 DISCUSSION "The Late Municipal Elections"
Leader - Mrs MacLeod Easson

December 3 BUSINESS MEETING
10 DISCUSSION "The Marriage Law and Inheritance"
Leader - Miss H.A. Menzies
Wednesday, Dec. 18 Annual Social Gathering
In Oak Hall, Edinburgh Cafe MUSICAL PROGRAMIVIE
Speaker - MRS BILLINGTON GREIG
1908
January 7 BUSINESS MEETING
14 DISCUSSION "The Ethical Value of the Vote"
Leader - Miss Kate R. Moffat
21 BUSINESS MEETING
February 4 BUSINESS MEETING
11 PUBLIC MEETING (Hall and speakers announced later)
25 DISCUSSION "The Woman Worker"
Leader - Miss Chapman
March 3 PUBLIC MEETING "Sweated Industries"
Speakers - Miss IRWIN and others
(Hall announced later)
10 BUSINESS MEETING
17 DISCUSSION "The Suffrage in other Lands"
Leader - Miss J .M. Marshall
April 7 DISCUSSION "Work of the Women's Cooperative Guild”
Leaders - Mrs Paterson and Mrs Hutton

14 BUSINESS MEETING

Ordinary Meetings are held on Tuesdays, in India Buildings, at 8 p.m..
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, 1/- payable in Nov.
Hon Secy
Miss ALEXIA B. JACK
4 Fountainhall Road

SELCRAIG MURRAY, Printers, 134 Comiston Road
(printed programme of Women’s Freedom League events 1907-1908)

More About Me

Either the document was originally slightly colourful or the digitised image isn't a true reflection of reality, but don't you agree that as a result this syllabus looks somewhat mint-choc-chip flavoured?

Constitution of the Women's Freedom League
Women's Freedom League (WFL)
c.1907
Invitation to Meeting of Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage (ENWSS)
5 October 1907
Public Notice for Meeting at the Music Hall
Christabel Pankhurst
22 February 1908
Invitation from WSPU to Caroline Phillips
The National Women's Social and Political Union (NWSPU)
21 September 1907
List of Events
Caroline Phillips
12-19 December 1907
Postcard from Caroline Phillips to Mrs Pankhurst
Caroline Phillips
14 December 1907
Suffrage Badges
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
c. 1913
Postcard of Christabel Pankhurst sent from T. C. Matthews to Mrs J. Mackenzie
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
23 December 1913
Telegram to Miss Caroline Phillips
Caroline Phillips
3 March 1908
Flyers for Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) Procession in Edinburgh
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
5 October 1907
NUWSS Banner
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (Aberdeen)
'Votes for Women' Postcard
Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)
c.1908
Envelope to Caroline Phillips
Caroline Phillips
1908