TRIAL WEBSITE: History
We have put together this part of the website to help further understand the breadth of history in our town. We’d love you to explore it, check it, question it, and tell us what’s missing. You can email us at history@lovebarnet.co.uk
Bluestocking / Votes for Women / Suffragette
Hester Chapone (Bluestocking) Miss Susan Watt, 13 Strafford Rd. (Suffragette) Helen Spanton, 63 Cresent West, Hadley Wood (Suffragette) nationalarchives.gov.uk > Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 Votes for Women events were hosted at the local Laundry. Suffragette Violet Aitken lived at Rowley Lodge, Arkley in her later years Dorothy Bowker, lived at 38 Station Road, New Barnet in her later years Dorothy Bowker’s Hunger Strike Medal Diane Atkinson podcast on Suffragettes (for non-local background info) “Vanishing for the Vote” (for non-local background info) Georgina Kermode (1868-1923)
Barnet’s women’s-rights story spans bluestocking Hester Chapone to local suffragettes hosting meetings and earning prison records. Later residents included activists such as Violet Aitken and Dorothy Bowker.