Edith Margaret Garrud was one of the first female professional martial arts instructors in the Western world. She trained the Bodyguard unit of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in jujutsu self-defence techniques. Garrud was in born Bath, Somerset and later moved to Wales. She met and married William Garrud, a physical instructor specializing …
The next Illustrated Women in History #zine featuring many beautiful artistic submissions is now up for sale! http://etsy.me/2nMhm6n The zine will be printed with a 300gsm, laminated cover and 120gsm inside pages. It is 52 pages in total and is printed in full colour. Thanks to everyone who submitted illustrations for this issue of the …
This year marks the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote in the UK. To celebrate this, I have a special #suffrage100 #zine for sale on Etsy! http://etsy.me/2EtCJ2K Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was a British women’s rights activist. From a young age, she began to rebel and was accused as being “a corrupting influence on …
I illustrated Dora Thewlis, Leonora Cohen, Selina Cooper & Florence Lockwood for Big Issue North’s celebration of #suffrage100 this week! The following is taken from the Big Issue North’s Facebook page This week we mark 100 years since some women gained the right to vote. Behind the leadership of Emmeline Pankhurst were lesser-known figures …
Rosa May Billinghurst was a suffragette and women’s rights activist known as the “cripple suffragette” as she campaigned using a modified tricycle. Billinghurst had survived polio as a small child and as a result was unable to walk unaided, she wore leg-irons and used either crutches or a modified tricycle. Billinghurst was active in social …
Sylvia Pankhurst was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement and was imprisoned and force-fed more than any other campaigner. Pankhurst was the daughter of prominient suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. After training as an artist, first at the Manchester School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art she worked full-time for the Women’s …
Flora Drummond was a British suffragette and an organiser for the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). She was imprisoned nine times for her activism. Drummond was born in Manchester, but moved to Glasgow at the age of 14 to take a business training course to become a post-mistress. Although she passed, the minimum height …
Selina Cooper was a suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party when elected as a Poor Law Guardian. “Women do not want their political power to enable them to boast that they are on equal terms with the men. They want to use it for the same purpose as men …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Kristina A. Boylan, with the biography in both English and Spanish. Jovita Valdovinos Medina led soldiers in Mexico’s Cristero rebellion, an insurrection against the 1926 implementation of the anticlerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 (the name derives from their battle cry “Viva Cristo Rey”/“Long …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was written by Manu Escrita, and illustrated by Cecília Silveira. It will be featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which will be available in February. Tereza de Benguela, also known as Queen Tereza, is one of the most important figures in Afro-Brazilian history and the inspiration …