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2007-02-22 03:32:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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JUNE 4th

On this day in history in 1913, Emily Davison threw herself under the king’s horse in the Derby.
Davison was a suffragette, a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) whose life’s work was the cause of women’s suffrage.

Davison was born in Blackheath, London, educated at Royal Holloway College, London and later at St Hugh’s College Oxford where she took first-class honours in English Literature. Oxford awarded her, not a degree, but the title of ‘Lady Licentiate in Arts’ as, at that time, Oxford and Cambridge did not award degrees to women.

Davison joined Emeline Pankhurst’s WSPU in 1906, and at once became involved in aggressive action. She was arrested on several occasions, once for attacking a man she thought was Lloyd George. She went on hunger strike in prison and was force fed. On the night of the 1911 census, she crept into the Hose of Commons and spent the night in a cupboard, so that she could legally write down ‘Palace of Westminster’ as her address. Mr Tony Benn relates that he has placed a commemorative plaque in this cupboard.

What took place on the afternoon of 4th June 1913 is unclear. Some say that Davison heroically committed suicide for the cause. Others say that she intended to stop the king’s racehorse ‘Amner’ and place the ribbon of the WSPU on the beast. Cine film of the incident shows Davison stepping onto the course as the field were rounding Tattenham Park Corner. Some eyewitnesses stated that Davison attempted to pull down the king’s horse. The fact that she had purchased a return railway ticket, however, points away from the suicide theory. What is certain is that Davison fell under the hooves of the racehorse, had her skull fractured and died four days later.

Davison is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 2QT. Her tombstone bears the apposite WSPU slogan ‘Deeds Not Words’.

2007-02-22 06:27:51 · answer #1 · answered by Retired 7 · 0 0

February 1913 – David Lloyd George’s house burned down by WSPU (he had previously supported the movement – after this he publicly opposed it)

April 1913 – Cat and Mouse Act passed, allowing hunger-striking prisoners to be released when their health was threatened and then re-arrested when they had recovered

4th June 1913 – Emily Davison threw herself under the King’s Horse at the Epsom Derby

13th March 1914 – Mary Richardson slashed the Rokeby Venus painted by Diego Velázquez in the National Gallery with an axe, protesting that she was maiming a beautiful woman just as the government was maiming Emmeline Pankhurst with force feeding

4th August 1914 – First World War declared in Britain. WSPU activity immediately ceased.

2007-02-22 03:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by shanekeavy 5 · 0 0

World War I broke out?

1912-1914 Col William Cuthbert Blackett?

Alban Arnold Plays for hampshire - Cricket?

Ulster Volunteer Force (1912-1914)?

Also- Albania: Autonomous and provisional governments (1912-1914)

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2007-02-22 03:47:23 · answer #3 · answered by vik 4 · 0 0

Read the book The Strange Death of Liberal England. It is a book written by George Dangerfield, first published in 1935, attempting to explain the decline of the British Liberal Party in the years 1910 to 1914.

Dangerfield argues that four great rebellions before the Great War effectively destroyed the Liberal Party as a party of government. These rebellions were the Conservative Party's fight against the Parliament Act 1911; the threat of civil war in Ireland by the Ulster Unionists under Sir Edward Carson with the encouragement of Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law; the Suffragette movement under the Pankhursts; and the increasingly militant trade unions.

The New York book publishers Harrison Smith and Robert Haas first printed the book, although it soon went out of print due to the publishers folding. An edited version was published in Britain in 1936 for the first time by Constable. Due to it being viewed as "popular history" and the book's time period being so near 1935, it largely escaped being reviewed by the major history journals.

The fifteenth volume of Albion in 1985 focused on the book and its author.

In 1997 it was republished by Serif and Stanford University Press, with a forward by Peter Stansky. In 1998 the book was chosen by the editors as number eighty-two in the Modern Library List of 100 Best Nonfiction Books published in the 20th Century.

2007-02-22 08:30:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

1914 WW1 november 11 1918 Armistice day 1922 Independence for eire 1930 the great melancholy 1938 Appeasement with Hitler 1939 WW2 Britian and France declair conflict on Germany might 26, 1940 - Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk starts off. August 23/24 1940 - First German air raids on mandatory London. August 25/26 - 1940 First British air raid on Berlin. "hi Her Myer" 1940 Britains RAF with out the u . s . a . defeats the Luftwaffe in the conflict of england October 1941 Lend-hire help to Britain 7 dec 1941 Japan assaults pearl harbour December 25, 1941 - British renounce at Hong Kong. January 19, 1942 - jap take North Borneo. February 15, 1942 - British renounce at Singapore. September 27, 1942 - British offensive in Burma. June 7 1944 D Day Operation industry backyard (17–25 September 1944 VE day might 8, 1945 August 6, 1945 - the 1st Anglo American atomic bombs First atomic bomb dropped, on Hiroshima, August 8, 1945 August 9, 1945 - 2d atomic bomb dropped, on Nagasaki, Japan. Earl Mountbatten takes the renounce jap military in Singapore prevalent Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace. VJ Day September 2, 1945 November 20, 1945 - Nuremberg conflict crimes trials start up.

2016-10-16 06:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by dudik 4 · 0 0

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2016-04-30 23:00:16 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

1914
August 4, 1914 Britain enters First World War

2007-02-22 20:42:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Sting and Elton John battled for the title of master of the world but Bob Geldof snatched the title at the last minute.
The queen got a shag
The metropolitan police was replaced by green eyed space monsters
and finally work was introduced as a means of punishing people

2007-02-22 03:42:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Titanic sunk in 1912
Barnsley won the F.A Cup in 1912
WW1 started in 1914

2007-02-22 03:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by Smarty 6 · 0 0

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2017-03-01 04:03:03 · answer #10 · answered by Maher 3 · 0 0

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