Doreen Allen
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Edith Doreen Allen was an English suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union, who on being imprisoned was force-fed, for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal 'For Va
Allen in 1905
Cartoon of a woman in suffragette colours smashing windows.
Force feeding suffragettes on hunger strike
The Suffragette Handerkerchief
Dartford
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Dartford is the principal town in the Borough of Dartford, Kent, England. It is located 18 mi south-east of Central London and is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its
Doreen Allen
…Political Union (WSPU), who on being imprisoned was force-fed, for which she received the WSPU's Hunger Strike Medal 'For Valour'. Allen was born in Dartford, Kent, England as Edith Doreen Allchin, one of ten children of Mary Ann née Amos (1838–1924) and John James Allchin (1836–1903), a builder. In 1905 she…
Holy Trinity Church, Dartford
The quarry at Bluewater, showing the underlying chalk
The Royal Oak Pub, which has seventeenth-century origins, in Dartford
The Library and Museum in front