Beth Hesmondhalgh
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Elizabeth Ellen Hesmondhalgh was a cotton spinner in Preston, and a British suffragette. She was imprisoned twice for militant protesting on behalf of women's franchise and was awarded the Women's Soc
Force feeding of suffragettes
Hunger Strike Medal
Hunger Strike Medal
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The Hunger Strike Medal was a silver medal awarded between August 1909 and 1914 to suffragette prisoners by the leadership of the Women's Social and Political Union. During their imprisonment, many we
Beth Hesmondhalgh
…She was imprisoned twice for militant protesting on behalf of women's franchise and was awarded the Women's Social and Political Union's (WSPU) Hunger Strike Medal for valour. Little is known about her early life. She became a cotton spinner around 1885 in Lancashire and married a railway signalman…
Medal in its presentation case with silver bar for a hunger strike and enamel bar for force-feeding awarded by the WSPU to Mabel Capper
Hunger Strike Medal awarded to Georgina Fanny Cheffins
Charlotte Blacklock's Hunger Strike Medal, Museum of Australian Democracy collection