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Annie Kenney (1879-1953) was a working-class suffragette who is credited with sparking off suffragette militancy when she heckled Winston Churchill. 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
The working class is a social class often contrasted with middle class and upper class in terms of the nature of work undertaken (manual labor or skilled), the level of remuneration (typically low hourly rates although there are exceptions) and access to resources (limited access to capital, education and land). ...
Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. ...
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ...
During a Liberal rally at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in October, 1905, she and Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a political meeting to ask Churchill and Sir Edward Grey if they believed women should have the right to vote. The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party (the SDP) to form a new party which would become...
The Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England, was for many years a focal point for public debate and cultural activity in the city. ...
Manchester is a city in the United Kingdom, famous for being the worlds first industrial city and considered by many to be UKs second city [1][2]. It is a centre of the arts, the media and big business. ...
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Christabel Pankhurst Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (September 22, 1880 – February 13, 1958) was a suffragette born in Manchester, England. ...
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (April 25, 1862 – September 7, 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey was a British politician and ornithologist. ...
Neither man replied. The two women got out a banner declaring "Votes for Women", and shouted at the two politicians to answer their questions. Kenney and Pankhurst were thrown out of the meeting and arrested for causing an obstruction and a technical assault on a police officer.
Annie Kenney was imprisoned for three days for her part in the protest, and 13 times in total.
Emmeline Pankhurst later wrote in her autobiography that "this was the beginning of a campaign the like of which was never known in England, or for that matter in any other country ...we interrupted a great many meetings... and we were violently thrown out and insulted. Often we were painfully bruised and hurt." Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. ...
Born in Springhead, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, in 1879, the daughter of Nelson Horatio Kenney and Anne Wood, Annie Kenney studied the great thinkers at an early age and joined the Pankhursts in the women's movement after she spent time working in a cotton mill. She was only working-class woman to become part of the senior hierarchy of the Women's Social and Political Union, becoming deputy in 1912, usual in such a middle-class organisation. Saddleworth is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in North West England. ...
The White Yorkshire rose. ...
1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU) was the leading organisation campaigning for womens suffrage in the United Kingdom. ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
She took her message as far afield as France and America, but eventually married and settled in Letchworth, Herts, after women won the vote in 1918. 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
She died in 1953. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ...
In 1999, Oldham put up a blue plaque in her honour at Leesbrook Mill where she started work in 1892. 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
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