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Vanishing for the vote: Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census
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Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census.
Many did. Some wrote Votes for Women boldly across their schedules. Others hid in darkened houses or, in the case of Emily Wilding Davison, in a cupboard within the Houses of Parliament.
Yet many did not. Even some suffragettes who might be expected to boycott decided to comply and completed a perfectly accurate schedule. Why?
Vanishing for the vote explores the battle for the census arguments that raged across Edwardian England in spring 1911. It investigates why some committed campaigners decided against civil disobedience tactics, instead opting to provide the government with accurate data for its health and welfare reforms.
This book plunges the reader into the turbulent world of Edwardian politics, so vividly recorded on census night 1911. Based on a wealth of brand-new documentary evidence, it offers compelling reading for history scholars and general readers alike.
Sumptuously produced, with 50 illustrations and an invaluable Gazetteer of suffrage campaigners.

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Vanishing for the vote

Suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census

JILL LIDDINGTON

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Gazetteer of campaigners

compiled by

Elizabeth Crawford and Jill Liddington

Manchester University Press

Manchester and New York

distributed in the United States exclusively
by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

The right of Jill Liddington to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Published by Manchester University Press
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ISBN 978 0 7190 8748 6

First published 2014

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Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire

Contents

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List of figures

Acknowledgements

To a greater degree than in my previous writing, this is a collaborative book and so the span of names of all those I would like to acknowledge is fuller than usual. Foremost, I thank Elizabeth Crawford for her considerable contribution to the research: we embarked on the census project together five years ago, and then collaborated again last year in compiling the Gazetteer. Elizabeth not only contributed her unrivalled familiarity with suffrage biographies, but also married this with her considerable electronic search skills.

As this book is broad in its ambition, drawing together so many individual campaigners, my debts to suffrage historians are particularly extensive. I am extremely grateful to Angela John for generously sharing with me her knowledge of Henry Nevinson and his manuscript diary; to Tara Morton for her Suffrage Atelier expertise, and for devising our Kensington and Chelsea history walks together; to Elizabeth Oakley of the Housman Society for so open-handedly sharing her detailed knowledge on Laurence and Clemence Housman; to Anne Summers for our sunny suffrage walk-and-talk down from Hampstead Heath to Belsize Park; Frances Bedford of the Muriel Matters Society for so enthusiastically guiding me round Muriels Adelaide; plus Gemma Edwards at Manchester University for assistance with the Helen Watts manuscript, and her father Barry Edwards in Bristol for regaling me with the manuscripts dramatic transmission story.

As my research journeys have criss-crossed so many communities up and down England, I have enjoyed the hospitality and expertise of local suffrage historians, and I warmly thank: Joy Bounds for introducing me to Constance Andrews and her fellow evaders in Ipswich; Kathleen Bradley for exploring Bath and Batheaston with me; Irene Cockroft for guiding me around Wimbledon and Richmond; Sarah Ryan for taking me down to Clemences street in Swanage; Annie Moseley for our visit out to Lowestofts windswept house of mass evasion; Colin Cartwright for discussion on Buckinghamshire; and Alison Ronan and Mike Herbert for sharing their knowledge of Manchester history.

Public libraries and record offices have had a rough time of it recently, so I am particularly grateful to librarians and archivists, notably in Manchester, Bristol, Nottingham, Gloucester, Portsmouth, Kensington, Battersea and Street in Somerset. The staffof the Womens Library, despite reorganizing for the move to LSE, have been unfailingly helpful, as has Beverley Cook at the Museum of London. Along with Colin Harris at the Bodleian Library, they have made my many research visits a real pleasure.

For all their help with the books illustrations, I thank in particular: Hugh Alexander at TNA; Inderbir Bhullar at the Womens Library; Daniel Brown of Bath in Time; Beverley Cook at the Museum of London; John Brock, descendant of Mabel Capper; and staffat Wandsworth Heritage Service.

For kind permission to quote, I am most grateful to the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford for the Nevinson diary; the National Trust and Gloucestershire Archives for the Blathwayt diaries; the Museum of London Suffragette Collections, for the Jessie Stephenson memoir; the British Library for John Burnss diaries; and the Trustees of Street Library for the Housman letters.

For their expert reading and commenting on chapters in draft, I am particularly indebted to: Pat Thane for her generous help on the Edwardian roots of the welfare state; Eddy Higgs, the census historian, for his scholarly suggestions; June Hannam, historian of Bristol and the Blathwayt diaries; June Purvis, biographer of Emmeline Pankhurst; Elizabeth Crawford; Elizabeth Oakley of the Housman Society; and most especially Angela V. John for so generously reading and commenting on the entire draft.

The publication of this book has been assisted by a grant to Manchester University Press from The Scouloudi Foundation in association with the Institute for Historical Research (2011); additionally, my research costs were facilitated by a grant, also from The Scouloudi Foundation in association with the Institute for Historical Research (2012). These two awards have helped with the books design and illustrations; and I am also extremely grateful to Paul Grove for his professional map design.

Finally I would like to thank Emma Brennan, my editor at Manchester University Press, who has carefully guided this book right through from original idea to publication; and all the MUP staff who saw it through production. I also appreciate the friends who kept me going when hypothyroidism slowed the writing down to snails pace. And as ever, my greatest debt of gratitude is to Julian Harber, not only for helping with some of the more elusive census searches, but also for enthusiastically believing in the project over the last four years from early start to final finish.

Abbreviations used in the text

General
ILP	Independent Labour Party; the ILP had joined with the trade unions to form the Labour Party.
LGB	Local Government Board, the Whitehall department responsible for planning and administering the 1911 census. Rt Hon John Burns MP was LGB President.
TNA	The National Archives, Kew.
Suffrage
LSWS	London Society for Womens Suffrage. The influential LSWS was run by Pippa Strachey.
NUWSS	National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies, formed 1897. NUWSS president was Mrs Fawcett. Suffragists campaigned using constitutional tactics.
WFL	Womens Freedom League, formed 1907 as a break-away from WSPU, mainly over internal democracy. Charlotte Despard was president. WFL suffragettes also deployed militancy, increasingly using tactics of non-violent civil disobedience.

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