20 Suffragette Memes Remind Us How Hard We’ve Fought For A Woman On The Ballot | The Huffington Post Suffragette Webpicks – Speakeasy News The film Suffragette is an excellent occasion to talk about the movement for votes for women in the UK in the 19th and 20th centuries. As well as the trailer, below, the site for the Suffragette film has a clip called “We will win”, which would work well in class. There is also a gallery of inspiring women that you can upload examples to. Why not ask your pupils to choose an inspiring woman and upload an image and a short description? There is an B1 audio interview with interactive comprehension activities about Suffragettes in the Banque de ressources anglais cycle 4:Audios > B1 > École et société > Interviews > Votes for Women To see the resource, register now or log in. The British Film Institute has several short newsreel films of Suffragettes online. Webpicks Useful websites and online tools for classroom use > Women on Banknotes Webpicks
Trump rolls back access to free birth control Media playback is unsupported on your device Donald Trump's government has issued a ruling that allows employers to opt out of providing free birth control to millions of Americans. The rule allows employers and insurers to decline to provide birth control if doing so violates their "religious beliefs" or "moral convictions". Fifty-five million women benefited from the Obama-era rule, which made companies provide free birth control. Before taking office, Mr Trump had pledged to eliminate that requirement. What happened? The mandate requiring birth control coverage had been a key feature of so-called Obamacare - President Obama's efforts to overhaul the US healthcare system. But the requirement included a provision that permitted religious institutions to forgo birth control coverage for their employees. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Friday it was important to expand which organisations can opt out and deny free contraceptive coverage. Why was the decision made?
Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst, the eldest daughter of ten children of Robert Goulden and Sophia Crane Gouldon, was born in Manchester on 15th July, 1858. Her father came from a family with radical political beliefs. Emmeline's grandfather had been one of the crowd at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 took part in the campaigns against slavery and the Corn Laws. (1) The eldest daughter in a family of ten children, Emmeline was expected to look after her younger brothers and sisters. Robert Gouldon was the successful owner of a cotton-printing company at Seedley. Robert Goulden was a friend of John Stuart Mill and supported his campaign to get women the vote. After a short spell at a local school, Emmeline was sent to École Normale Supérieure, a finishing school in Paris in 1873. Soon after her returned to Manchester, she met the lawyer, Richard Pankhurst. Richard Pankhurst became a leading figure in radical politics in Manchester. On 23rd June 1888, Besant wrote an article in her newspaper, The Link.
History - Emmeline Pankhurst Women's rights and their money: a timeline from Cleopatra to Lilly Ledbetter | Money Many modern women in the US and Europe never question their right to open a bank account, own property, or even buy wine or beer in a pub. These rights, however, were hard won: for much of history, and even up to 40 years ago, middle-class women were not allowed to handle money; even having a job was seen as a sign of financial desperation. In the lastest addition to our Money and Feminism series, we trace the modern history of women and money. Ancient Egypt, 3100 BCE and after: Women hold equal financial rights with men. As scholar Janet Johnson writes, “Egyptian women were able to acquire, to own, and to dispose of property (both real and personal) in their own name. They could enter into contracts in their own name; they could initiate civil court cases and could, likewise, be sued; they could serve as witnesses in court cases; they could serve on juries; and they could witness legal documents.” Ancient Greece: Women’s financial rights are constrained compared to earlier societies.
Emmeline Pankhurst - Wikipedia English suffragette (1858–1928) Born in the Moss Side district of Manchester to politically active parents, Pankhurst was introduced at the age of 14 to the women's suffrage movement. She founded and became involved with the Women's Franchise League, which advocated suffrage for both married and unmarried women. In 1903, Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women suffrage advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words".[5] The group identified as independent from – and often in opposition to – political parties. With the advent of the First World War, Emmeline and Christabel called an immediate halt to the militant terrorism in support of the British government's stand against the "German Peril".[7] Emmeline organised and led a massive procession called the Women's Right to Serve demonstration[8] to illustrate women's contribution to the war effort. Early life[edit] Marriage and family[edit] In 1888, Pankhurst's son Frank developed diphtheria.
Emmeline Pankhurst - Women's Rights Activist Synopsis Emmeline Pankhurst was born in England in 1858. In 1903, she founded the Women's Social and Political Union, which used militant tactics to agitate for women's suffrage. Pankhurst was imprisoned many times, but supported the war effort after World War I broke out. Early Life Emmeline Goulden was born in Manchester, England, in 1858, on either July 14 or 15 [her birth certificate said July 15, but the document wasn’t filed until four months after her birth, and Goulden always stated she was born on July 14]. Goulden, the eldest daughter of 10 children, grew up in a politically active family. Marriage and Political Activism After studying in Paris, Goulden returned to Manchester, where she met Dr. Over the next decade, Pankhurst gave birth to five children: daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela, and sons Frank (who died in childhood) and Harry. The WSPU Takes Shape Coping with straitened circumstances and grief consumed much of Pankhurst’s attention for the next several years.
Everyday Sexism Project Shakespeare's Biography Biographical Links | Home Shakespeare's Last Will and Testament For all his fame and celebration, William Shakespeare remains a mysterious figure with regards to personal history. There are just two primary sources for information on the Bard: his works, and various legal and church documents that have survived from Elizabethan times. Naturally, there are many gaps in this body of information, which tells us little about Shakespeare the man. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, allegedly on April 23, 1564. There is great conjecture about Shakespeare's childhood years, especially regarding his education. The next documented event in Shakespeare's life is his marriage to Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582. For the seven years following the birth of his twins, William Shakespeare disappears from all records, finally turning up again in London some time in 1592. Greene's bombast notwithstanding, Shakespeare must have shown considerable promise. Biographical Links Mrs. Leigh T.
William Shakespeare | Facts, Life, & Plays Although the amount of factual knowledge available about Shakespeare is surprisingly large for one of his station in life, many find it a little disappointing, for it is mostly gleaned from documents of an official character. Dates of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials; wills, conveyances, legal processes, and payments by the court—these are the dusty details. There are, however, many contemporary allusions to him as a writer, and these add a reasonable amount of flesh and blood to the biographical skeleton. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. The parish register of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shows that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564; his birthday is traditionally celebrated on April 23. Stratford enjoyed a grammar school of good quality, and the education there was free, the schoolmaster’s salary being paid by the borough. Instead, at age 18 he married.
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Elizabethan Theatre Elizabethan theatre and the name of William Shakespeare are inextricably bound together, yet there were others writing plays at the same time as the bard of Avon. One of the most successful was Christopher Marlowe, who many contemporaries considered Shakespeare's superior. Marlowe's career, however, was cut short at a comparatively young age when he died in a tavern fight in Deptford, the victim of a knife in the eye. Theatre had an unsavory reputation. London authorities refused to allow plays within the city, so theatres opened across the Thames in Southwark, outside the authority of the city administration. Shakespeare The first proper theatre as we know it was the Theatre, built at Shoreditch in 1576. After the Theatre, further open air playhouses opened in the London area, including the Rose (1587), and the Hope (1613). The Globe was only in use until 1613, when a canon fired during a performance of Henry VIII caught the roof on fire and the building burned to the ground.