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Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Posted: 08 April 2011 at 06:10 AM »
A celebration of the centenary of a suffragette boycott of the census is to be held in Ipswich.

About 30 votes-for-women campaigners spent the night of 10 April 1911 in an office at the Old Museum Rooms to avoid filling in the forms. Their slogan was "If I am intelligent enough to fill in this form, I can surely put an X on a ballot paper".

A night marking the protest is being held in the building in Museum Street, which is now a restaurant, on Sunday. The women's suffrage campaign had been going for about 40 years but by 1911 there had been no change in voting laws. Joy Bounds, the organiser of the 2011 event, said: "For a few years suffragettes had been getting angrier and there were enormous demonstrations, women would go to prison, hunger strike and they'd be force-fed which was a very brutal experience. They wanted to do something that would have an impact on the government, but wouldn't be very difficult for the women to do."

Link to full article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-12989665
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #1 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 06:56 AM »
I have not seen the 1911 census entries but have copies of entries from the 1901 census which were obviously filled in by an official going from house to house, judging by the format they are in.
I therefore assume that they must have changed the method to form-filling by the householder from 1911.
Now we can do it online!
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #2 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 07:06 AM »
Quote from: boatbuilder on 08 April 2011 at 06:56 AM
Now we can do it online!


Wonder why they didn't do it that way in 1911?  icon_scratch     
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #3 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 03:52 PM »
washing line?
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #4 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 04:00 PM »
Did they have them in those days, do you remember?    evil6
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #5 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 05:43 PM »
Quote from: Trigger on 08 April 2011 at 07:06 AM
Wonder why they didn't do it that way in 1911?  icon_scratch     

Oh, but they probably did, Trigger - in a different way.   They probably wrote their details on the census forms 'on line(s)'   laugh
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #6 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 07:54 PM »
I have never failed to use my franchise in a general election from the time I first had it at 2,1 but I have missed out a number of council elections.
I used to use my first motor car for taking people to the polling booths, for labour of coarse in those days.
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #7 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 08:52 PM »
imy grandad always got kick out of the tory boy taking him to polling station and gramps voted labour.it was the one thing he said he could do while he was in tory boys car a real tory could not get in.and he made sure it was about nine at night he went to vote.
i have always believed firmly in using my vote these women died so i could,but it did presious little good this time no one got goverment they voted for...i will vote green but i very half hearted about voting this time
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Re: Suffragettes' 1911 census boycott celebrated in Ipswich « Reply #8 Posted: 08 April 2011 at 09:31 PM »
If you don't vote snowdrop you can't complain
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